[Matt Kreitman]

We’re just having the antiskate benches fabricated from shop drawings. We import a lot of custom sized and finished cut stone from China – pavers, slab etc. A customer asked us to come up with something antiskateboard for this project. So we designed it to their size requirements, spec’d a groove size that would hard to skate on but still OK to sit on, then priced it out in a golden granite that matches other stone on the project. Production and shipping lead time is about 8 weeks from order, delivered to the job site. Its actually a pretty low cost option.
There are plenty pics of the cobble on mesh on our website.

[Matt Kreitman]

Recent advances in stone fabricating technology enable my business, Groundfloor Stone, to provide a variety of aesthetic and cost-efficient antiskateboard solutions. We have a current order for six granite 18″x18″x72″ benches for a school district in northern New Mexico. These have been etched crossways end to end with a 1″ wide by .25″ deep “battlement” groove on the tops and sides. This makes them impossible to skate on. Delivered price is easily within the limited budget, and the benches create indestructible, cool-looking functional landscape furniture. We have another much larger state project coming up using the same benches, but which incorporates the same granite as cobble paving. The cobble provides an additional skate deterrent. But as we have the cobble pre-set on mesh, the installed price is about the same $$ as concrete paving.

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