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What jobs does a marble worker carry out??

    In our team we have the best marmolistas of Barcelona, That's why today we want to talk about them and explain what exactly their work consists of.. Besides, We will also discover some historical curiosities of marble, which was already used in ancient Greece and has always been linked to construction.

    Basic tasks of a marble artist in Barcelona:

    • Measure and make a plan on site, studying the entire breakdown
    • Prepare the work area and organize the environment
    • Determine and prepare the material and tools, as well as the machines and work equipment you need
    • Prepara, check out, uses and maintains the equipment and individual or collective protection elements that it needs, to provide the necessary safety to your operators
    • Monta, use and dismantle small scaffolding
    • Rethink the product to be made in the workshop and the element that must be made on the job.
    • Cut, drill, to model, Polish, polish and join pieces of marble to form elements for kitchen boards, coatings, flooring, sockets, shelves, steps, finishes, bookshelves, Sanitary, columns, etc.
    • Placement of the different elements on site

    Our marble workers have the training, Sufficient experience and knowledge to carry out all your tasks with complete professionalism. The main function of a marble artist of Marbles Barcelona is the extraction of natural stone from the quarry in large blocks, as well as its elaboration on boards. The objective of working with this material is to create and place different ornamentation elements for buildings and decorative constructions., urban planning…

    Did you know that marble has always been linked to construction?

    He marble artist in Barcelona arose already in classical Greece, when marble was first integrated into construction, flooring and coverings. The Romans were the ones who used it for the construction of official buildings, monuments, public toilets, etc. They imported marble from Greece and managed to make marble famous through mosaics., which was made up of small pieces of marble called tesserae, that were cut regularly and in different colors and qualities, to create figurative and geometric shapes and drawings.

    The installation of marble mosaics intensifies during the Byzantine era, to cover ceilings and walls, the aesthetics begin to be more refined, through the construction of temples of kings and emperors.

    Already in the 19th century, thanks to industrial development, The new residential buildings of the bourgeoisie use marble widely for the construction of facades and lobbies.

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