Echeguren Slate

The advice and guidance has always been superb. From my firm’s perspective, we could not ask for more a supportive and quality customer service driven partner than Echeguren Slate.

Friendly, helpful and a really amazing selection of slate. Attractive showroom with excellent natural lighting so you can really see the slates. Nice secure parking area.
I only needed a bit for a small project but they treated me like a real customer nonetheless.
I will definitely go back for future projects.

Sadly, I had to return the stone that did not match the display and I only got 60% of my money back. Very frustrating!

I purchased top grade, gauged, Vermont black slate for my front steps at a reasonable price. The Vermont supplier also makes slate roofing tiles that routinely last over 100 years from the same quarry. This was one of the few stores I found that even carries stone made in the USA. This is not low quality imported junk but was priced only slightly higher. After 3 years, the material is good as new without and flaking, chipping or cracking. They have a very good selection of stone although not exhaustive. My review is based on my experience with this store and I would recommend this supplier to others.

Our contractor sent us here to look at slate. They had all the samples displayed inside and out so you could get a sense of what it would really look like, and good sized samples to take home. When we purchased our pieces and mentioned the contractor would pick them up, we received the contractor price, a nice little savings!

Over the years I have worked many times with Meika at Echeguren Slate to install slate tiles in my clients’ landscape gardens. The advice and guidance has always been superb. Recently I had an especially difficult situation where the clients were having trouble grasping the color concepts and variation of various slate tiles. Meika patiently explained this to them over two meetings that lasted over three hours until they «got it». Now the clients are looking forward to completion of the project and enjoying the slate patio. From my firm’s perspective, we could not ask for more a supportive and quality customer service driven partner than Echeguren Slate.

I chose slate tiles they had displayed on the showroom floor for my kitchen floor. I also asked them for a recommendation of a tile setter. I was told they could recommend someone who is an expert tile setter and said he would be more expensive than most tile setters since he’s an expert.
Well, I feel pretty stupid — he came by, we talked, he showed me pictures of his work and I hired him. What a mistake. My kitchen floor is a disaster — the tiles are uneven (really easy to get your shoe caught on them). The grouting is different colors (white in some places and dark grey in other places), less grouting between some tiles (so debris gets easily caught), tiles with corners broken off, and almost every tile has a mottled look (not good and not what the showroom floor even remotely looks like). It’s as if my slate tiles are ‘seconds’ — they look like they’ve had something spilled on them. Not a great look for a kitchen floor. And to add to my frustration the same tile setter also tiled my dining room fireplace with the same slate tiles and they look beautiful (just like they look in the showroom).
I had the person from Echeguren who recommended the tile setter come and look at my floor and his comment was «I’ve seen worse!» The tile setter (who told me he’s a perfectionist — yes, I am gullible) offered to tear the floor out and redo it for free (I’d have to pay for the tiles) but since he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with the floor now, I don’t feel confident that after all the dust and the expense it would be any better.
So a few thousand dollars later, I still need a new kitchen floor. I’m considering covering it with Flor carpet tiles.