Ricon Natural Stone Project Photos.
The following photos are from completed jobs that Ricon has done. You can use these photos to view some of our work, help you plan how a stone will look in your house, see how some of the colors of stone look with some of the different cabinet colors or just view some of the interesting work that we have done. We will be updating the gallery on a regular basis and adding new photos as we contiue to provide Louisianna with the highest quality of stone fabrication and installation available.
Projects
Ricon preformed this job for a resteraunt on the 21st floor of the Capitol One building overlooking the lake in Lake Charles, LA. Notice the we inlaidd the name of the resteraunt right into the surface of their bartop with a semi-tanslucent stone so that when the lights underneath the bar were turned on the name of the place would glow. Also we added the transluecent panels along the bottom of the bar so that they would also glow with the bar lights on. The bartop was made from a 3cm Black Galaxy that was lamineted to be double thick on the edge and have a full-bullnose round over. The stone that we inlaid for the name as well as the stone for the panels underneath the bartop was made from a 2cm Honey Onyx.
Below is an image gallery of thumbnail photos that you can look through to get ideas about your own job or to just look at some of the work that we have done. If you click on any thumbnail it will then enlarge to the size of the page for you to look closely. We will add more photos hopefully each week.
True Story!!!! The job above was installed 2 days before the pictures were taken...
Ricon Recieved a call by a frantic customer almost literally in tears. I had spoken to them about a month ago to give them a price on doing granite in their kitchen. I had never heard back from them and just assumed that it wasnt time to do the job yet. They explained that they had chosen a competitor of ours that had been in buisiness here in Baton Rouge for over 10yrs to prefom the remodel in their kitchen because the bid was several hundred dollars cheaper. I will leave this competitor nameless out of respect for the dead...This competitor required the customer to pay 3/4 of the price of the job upfront as a deposit. When the job was almost done, the customers returned home to find that the pieces didnt fit properly, The seams that the company made were, in their words, "worse than grout line spaces between ceramic tiles". The backsplashes were all pieced together and at the tops of them didnt even match up, as in, the splash on the left was 4 1/8" tall and the splash seamed to it was 3 7/8" tall...Also around their sink, the company had used 4 pieces, one in front, one in back, one on the left and one on the right. This is called a "strip-in undermount" and companies do it so they can save material and not have to have one big piece with a hole made in it that fits the sink. Many companies do the "strip-in", and Ricon will if you insist on it for some reason but we HIGHLY RECCOMEND against it. It just looks horrible. Anyway, Upon going out to the job to inspect it with this new potential customer, we felt really bad and agreed that the job was very SUB-STANDARD. We quoted a price to tear it out and replace it for them, now at a discount of course. They agreed and paid us to do the job correctly. Above is a picture array of before and after shots so that you can judge for yourself. So in the end, this customer went with a competitors bid because it was a few hundred dollars cheaper than ours and quickly found out why. They ended up paying more than double our original quote because of the additional tear our of the first attempt at doing the job. Upon completion of the job the homeowner told us " If i would have had any idea whatsoever that there were companies that had been in buisiness that long that preformed work that looked like that I would have never tried to save a few bucks on my Granite countertops". Now of course everyone wants to get the best possible job for the lowest price, you just have to be careful. Ricon has a set price that we do each color of stone for, we are not used car salesmen, and dont haggle about the price, HOWEVER... if you have a reasonable bid for your job that is lower than ours, we will always try to do everything we can to get your price down to where you need it to be so that Ricon can preform your job. We never want something like what is shown above to happen to ANYONE!! In the 12 years that Ricon had been doing countertops in Baton Rouge, we have been hired to remove a competitors SUB-STANDARD job over 17 times...17 times a customer got a job from a company that was so horrible that they paid twice just so they were not stuck with a job that looked like it was the cheapest in town...
Below is a competitors job we had to remove because of how bad it was! We have done this 17 times in 12 years!!
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Ricon preformed this job in Country Club of Louisiana. What you're looking at is the cabinets and backsplash area around and behind where a large 60" stove will go. Onyx is a stone that is sometimes in some areas of the stone sort of transluecent. So the customers asked us to add some lighting behind it so that when they turned on their stove lights the stone would glow as you can see in the photo. This job was done with 2cm Royal Green Onyx.
