Cracked marble or stone top
A crack through a marble table top: from a fault along a vein, an impact, or a heavy slab crated without support.
Why it happens
Natural stone carries faults along its veins. A slab that is not checked before cutting can crack along one later, at the factory or in transit.
Stone is heavy and breaks at its edges and corners. A top handled roughly in the workshop, or crated flat without support along its length, cracks where it is weakest.
Sample report 04 (Jodhpur, January 2023) recorded cracks in marble tops; two pieces had to be replaced before the lot could ship.
How to specify against it
A defect you can name in the purchase order is a defect an inspector can fail the shipment on. One you only describe in an email is not.
- Name the stone, thickness and finish, with photos of the acceptable colour and veining range.
- State whether resin-filled fissures are acceptable, and how visible they may be.
- Agree the crate: one top per crate, supported along its length, usually on edge, corners protected.
- Have every sampled top inspected on both faces and all edges before it is crated.
The inspection point
Each of these is a numbered check on a published scope, so you can see exactly which visit finds this and when.
Other defects in the library
Visible crack filling
DEF-026 · Finish · Repair
Cracks filled with epoxy or putty instead of being re-made, left visible under the finish on a solid wood top.
Tips over with drawers open
DEF-035 · Structure · Stability
A drawer unit that falls forward when its drawers are opened: a critical defect that fails the lot on its own.
Poor ironwork on metal frames
DEF-028 · Finish · Metal
Rough welds, scratches and damaged coating on the iron frames of wood-and-iron furniture.
Catch this one before it ships.
Confirmed within 24 hours. Report within 24 hours of inspection.
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