Welcome to the Stone House. You have made the first important step by finding our website. Here you will begin the most comprehensive stone masonry training experience of your career.

What is the House about?

The Stone House is located in Tempe (adjacent to Phoenix, Arizona), and was purchased by This Old Grout & Stone for the sole purpose of providing contractors a type of training that is unheard of in the stone industry.

Real world training in an actual home setting!

Nothing like this has been done before!

“The concept is totally new,” explains Ken Sherman, President and Founder of This Old Grout & Stone. “I started in this industry years ago, and until now, the training information available to the contractor has hardly charged at all. That’s why we created the Stone House.”

In the Stone House, trainees learn the skills of tile, grout and natural stone restoration and cleaning in real world settings under real world conditions. Through hands-on experience, they become proficient as they clean, buff, learn honing and repair different countertops, floors and other stone surfaces. Trainees become skilled at grout cleaning and stone polishing, performing travertine repair and ceramic tile cleaning. They discover the important intricacies of cleaning marble, as well as marble polishing and marble restoration. In addition to marble and granite, they work with natural stone, with travertine tile as well as ceramic tile. When training is complete, our trainees emerge as skilled contractors who are well prepared for most any stone repair, polishing stone or restoration job.

Natural Stone Training, Tile and Grout cleaning and restoration training in real word settings under real world conditions.

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