House Number Plaques | House Number Plaque
House Number Plaques
The beauty and individuality of a home is in its details, the particular accents that you add to make it yours and yours alone. When setting up a new home one of the easiest ways to distinguish it is set up a new address plaque, something bright and easy to see so that your housewarming guests can find you!
Now I know that most people are really decent and would have come back to show me their efforts, so I have put this lack of response down to the fact that most of these novice carvers simply chose the wrong type of materials to start with and therefore never actually managed to finish the piece of work.
To help would be stone carvers choose the right type of stone, I have tried to create a kind of Mohs Scale of hardness of the kinds of stone that you are likely to find in your local stone yards. This is not a scientific scale, it is based not only on hardness but also on the practical workability of the stone. I have assumed that you will be working with hand tools not power tools.
House Number Plaques | House Number Plaque
There are address plates made out of metal and stone with metal numbers. Some have vinyl numbers and light up. You can place the address plaque on the house, or you can purchase one that goes out closer to the street. You can mount the external plaque on stone or on wood.
The simple fact is that stone and especially marble carving is hard work. Unless you choose a soft and relatively easy to work type of stone to start with and you select the right tools, you will easily become discouraged and give up long before you are able to develop the practical skills necessary to work the harder stones and marble.
