Carrara Venato DogBone Marble Mosaic Tile

(January 25th Lot) Carrara Venato DogBone Basketweave 1×2″ Marble Mosaic Tile available in Honed and Polished $12.95SF

Carrara Venato DogBone Specifications

Carrara Venato Polished 2″ Octagon Mosaic Tile

Polished Carrara Venato Octagon from thebuilderdepot.com

Carrara Venato Polished 2×2″ Octagon Mosaic Tile

Salvage Test Data North American Tile Council

Carrara Bianco Tight Joint Pennyround Mosaic Tile

Palmetto Porcelain Tile Data Sheet

2014 Starts off Well!

We would like to get this every year!

Carrara Venato Polished Random Brick Marble Mosaic

Our weak effort to capture the polished look with our iPhone.  This new addition to the Venato line is available online for $11.95SF

From the top the Polished just looks like Honed.  Carrara Venato Random length polished Mosaic Tile $11.95SF.

Carrara Venato Honed Random Brick Marble Mosaic Tile

Incredible white based product also sometimes called Random length brick mosaic.  Exclusive to thebuilderdepot.com

Premium Carrara Venato Honed Random Brick Marble Mosaic Tile $11.95SF Honed

This spectacular Carrara Venato Honed Random plank marble mosaic is now (as of January 6th 2014) available online.  However due to the length of the strips and the narrow width of some we cannot ship this product UPS ground.  It will have to ship freight.

That creates limitations on ordering.  Minimum order will have to be 85SF.  This can be a mix of product 60SF of 6×12″ Venato or any other size and then 25SF of this mosaic.  That would make the total 85SF.

What we cannot ship is 30SF of this mosaic.  As it will not be feasible to ship it safely UPS ground.  This goes over to the entire diatribe on minimum orders on certain products.  We have a blog on this for the avid reader.

Shipping Overseas?

You have most likely reached this page having asked how to get our products to Australia, Europe or some country other than North America.  It is understandable, we offer products and prices than no one else in the world can match.  In 2013 we had customers from Perth to Sydney and from New Zealand to Denmark and of course the UK.  Buying in US dollars makes our prices attractive but the quality and choices even more so.

The issue for the you the customer is how can I get this wonderful marble (we will assume marble) from Atlanta, Georgia USA to my bathroom?  Firstly marble does not ship air freight, unless it is just a sample.  It is heavy.  So this method of shipping is cost prohibitive (we will just assume you are not a billionaire).  Let’s also assume you are in Australia.

The way to get the product to you is the definition above on what is called a consolidated container.  Many people all over the world are buying products on a daily basis from different countries.  They use a 3rd party warehouse and then the 3rd party warehouse uses a shipper that specializes in consolidated containers.  Essentially shipping your pallet of marble in a container with lots of other pallets of other people’s products making the process efficient and cost effective.  For example.  A Ocean Container can carry 24 pallets a family moving from USA to Australia may have twenty three pallet leaving space for one more pallet, yours.  That one pallet could be your pallet of marble.  You then just pay for 1/24th of the container.

Consolidated container

Definitions

1. Container stuffed with several shipments (consignments) from different shippers for delivery to one or more consignees.

Hopefully you are still with me….?  So now you have the methodology.  It really is quite straight forwards.

At The Builder Depot we do not arrange this for our customer.  All we do is ship inside the USA.  Why?  We would have to have a dedicated department, this would increase the product cost (we are against anything that increases the product cost). So you the customer has to find that warehouse or 3rd party location yourself.  You will want a warehouse that can prepare the shipment for shipping overseas.  We pack the marble in a wooden crate, but you will still want a warehouse to have the skill to inspect it before it gets loaded onto the container for overseas shipping.

Then you need to find a Consolidated container company.  Google can be your friend here.  Figure 1, shows a search in Google from shipping a pallet from USA to Australia there are hundreds of options.  I chose the link circled here.  That is in Figure 2, Xpressrate this may not be the best one, you need to do the work from this point.

Example 1.  Google Search for shipping “pallet from USA to Australia”

Figure 2.  Just an example an international shipper.

So this briefly outlines the process.  To clarify:

1. The Builder Depot does not ship outside the USA
2. The Builder Depot does not complete or assist in any paperwork for shipping overseas. There are experts for this, you have to hire them, they do it.
3. The Builder Depot ships to a USA warehouse that you designate, just like a retailers warehouse in for example California. You have pre-organized and communicated with this warehouse (they will know it is coming – you will want a reference number that we can put on the pallet, or some paperwork or code to identify  your shipment), they will prepare your marble shipment for overseas transport in an Ocean Container
4. You direct the consolidated container company to collect the pallet and then it ships to you overseas
5. There will be paperwork and forms.  You will need to do research and understand the process, we shipped thousands of square feet of marble to 3rd party warehouses in 2013 many went to Miami most likely destined for the Bahama’s, Australia was the number two final destination.
6. From our side we receive an order online like any other order this order would have a 3rd party warehouse as it’s ship to location.  As a company we are not part of what happens to that shipment from beyond this point.  You could ship it to the moon if you like.  But for us all we are part of is shipping to a location in the USA.
7. I hope this helps outline what we do and how the process of overseas shipping works.
8. I am sure one day we will get there but a this time we are not in a position for an “overseas dept.”

Final note: of course if you are super rich you can get it loaded onto your plane and have it air shipped.  If that is the case just have your assistant sort this out for you 🙂

All we do is ship to a designated USA location in the lower 48 states.

You may ask, but there is a whole world out there, you could ship and sell even more?  Perhaps. But then we would have to hire and export department. Advertise internationally. Language barriers. Cultural differences. This is not impossible, but I think if we are gong to sell to a market. We are going to have a warehouse and an operation in that market. Hire people from that community. Currently we are in the USA, the industry of Home Improvement (which is what we are in) is valued at $300bn, that is “B” for Billion.  According to good old Wikipedia that is more than the entire GDP of Scotland, Flanders in Belgium and twice the amount of Manila.  In short we are not in a position to take on the world until we have captured the sales in our own backyard.

Happy New Year 2014

2013 went by so fast. I only just got used to putting 2013 on checks.