Within two weeks - that's possible in Italy too - we replaced the access path to the house and the floor in the breakfast room with Piedmontese stone slabs. The old covering was cracked and not insulated against moisture. Massimo, il Costruttore, and his team removed the old material, took it away with 4 trucks, reinforced and concreted anew, and laid 50 m2 of gneiss slabs from the quarries of Luserna, south of Pinerolo (TO). So genuine 'Pietre del Piemonte'. They look absolutely beautiful, and will last at least the next 200 years ...