QUESTION:

WHAT IS FEATHEROCK?

ANSWER:

Featherock is a lightweight natural volcanic stone> When cooling it became very porous due to escaping gases. Featherock is a distinctive lightweight quarried stone, rugged in texture. Pumice is formed from lava that is full of gas. The lava is ejected and shot through the air during eruption. As lava hurtles through the air it cools and gases escape leaving the rock full of holes. Pumice is so light that it actually floats on water. Huge pumice blocks have been seen floating on the ocean after large eruptions.
 

QUESTION:

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

ANSWER:

The product that comes from the United States Pumice Company mine is high-grade block pumice. High-grade block pumice is available only one place, the Sierra mountain mine of US Pumice Company. Featherock is mined in the high Sierra Mountains of California. Each stone is individually mined, each stone is an original in shape.
 

QUESTION:

WHAT ARE THE USES OF THIS PROCUCT?

ANSWER:

It is used as an architectural and landscape boulders and landscape planters. It is also used for water gardens and waterfalls and garden art.
 

QUESTION:

WHAT ARE THE COLORS AVAILABLE?

ANSWER:

Silver/Gray and Charcoal.
 

QUESTION:

WHO BUYS FEATHEROCK?

ANSWER:

Featherock is sold nationwide to stone, building supply and wholesale nursery dealers to contractors and consumers.
 

QUESTION:

CAN EXTREME WEATHER EFFECT FEATHEROCK?

ANSWER:

It is impervious to the extremes of Hot and Cold weather so it’s the perfect choice no matter what the climate.
 

QUESTION:

HOW IS FEATHEROCK SHIPPED?

ANSWER:

Featherock Pro-Market dealers buy in truckload quantities and half truckload quantities, approximately 22 Ton to a truckload. The landscape boulders and planters are packaged differently to meet the requirements of the retail markets. Packaged in sturdy lattice wooden crates mounted on standard 40 x 48 inch pallets. The boulders are offered in six combinations for retail trade: Two colors and three sizes. Packed like sizes and colors per pallet. Silver gray planters are packaged 24 per pallet. Boulders and planters are priced by the piece and can be UPC tagged for retail checkout.
 

QUESTION:

WHAT IS THE WEIGHT OF THE BOULDERS?

ANSWER:

If a 50-pound Featherock boulder were granite it would weight at least 250 lbs.
Some boulders and their sizes and approximate weight:

Size Approx. weight 2 x 2 x 2 400 lbs. 2 x 2 x 3 600 lbs. 2 x 4 x 2 700 lbs. 2 x 5 x 2 800 lbs. 3 x 4 x 3 1000 lbs. 4 x 4 x 2 1500 lbs. 6 x 4 x 3 2500 lbs.