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Offline dutch508

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ghostsinthemachine hates UN tiles...
« on: September 19, 2017, 09:08:50 PM »
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ghostsinthemachine (2,811 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029609266

I hate the tiles at the UN.


There's a jackass standing in front of them!

Seriously. I'm a tile man, stone Mason. Not a fan of green marble anyway (it's alive, you know?), but they should have laid it so the patter is continuos (bookmarking in the parlance). Just a horrible job, pisses me off every time I see it. I can figure out the pattern and see that it could be marked. If it couldn't, they shouldn't have used such a heavily veined marble, used a slab or planned to bookmark it by marking it at the quarry. (Smaller jobs like this on usually don't require this to be able to create a more singular piece).

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2. Holy shit, TRump don't like em either!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/trump-marble-united-nations-real-estate/index.html

Finally, common ground. Weird how I went to CNN and saw this. He's right, I'm right, shit be the ugly.

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Star Member brush (13,711 posts)
3. Translate for laymen, please.

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ghostsinthemachine (2,811 posts)
4. Bookmarking

Where the veins in each tile are aligned to make it all look like one continuous piece, or a solid slab. Or the face of the rock mined at the quarry.
On larger projects the pieces are marked at the quarry then laid so the veins are continuous. Most State Capitol buildings have great examples of this craft. I learned about it working during the restoration project at the CA state capitol which has miles of incredible bookmarked marble panels.

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8. I didn't know you were a stone mason! That is so neat!

My husband second step grandfather was a marble importer. When the Florida state capital building was remodeled in 1952 he supplied the marble for the building. In the late 1970s when the building was restored to the 1902 version, we bought as much of the marble from the state surplus sale as we could. When we built our house ten years ago we finally used the marble that we had purchased.

Most is Georgia white marble - some was paneling along the halls but some sheets had been the dividing walls in the rest rooms. The sheets were used above our kitchen counters and as the seat in the shower in the master bath.

A very few pieces of the green marble that had been used as base boards survived - those were used as a short back splash in the half bath.

"Uncle Billy" as my husband called his step grandfather, hated the green marble. His sources in Italy did not have good quality and the stuff tended to crumble.

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13. Was it perhaps the style at the time?

To deliberately mount the tiles so they did not appear as if they were of one slab?

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Re: ghostsinthemachine hates UN tiles...
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2017, 09:13:46 PM »
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ghostsinthemachine (2,811 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029609266

I hate the tiles at the UN.


There's a jackass standing in front of them!

Seriously. I'm a tile man,

I'm a Dapper Dan man.  Pleased to meet you.

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Re: ghostsinthemachine hates UN tiles...
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2017, 09:20:33 PM »
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I hate the tiles at the UN.

He hates these tiles! 


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Re: ghostsinthemachine hates UN tiles...
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2017, 11:52:44 PM »
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Re: ghostsinthemachine hates UN tiles...
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2017, 07:34:31 AM »
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I hate the tiles at the UN.

There's a jackass standing in front of them!

gitm has a picture of himself at the UN?

Personally, I favor UNEXIT, with the US leaving the UN and the UN leaving the US. Let the UN set up their headquarters in some West African Paradise or Zimbabwe!
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Re: ghostsinthemachine hates UN tiles...
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2017, 01:06:16 PM »
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