Granite Countertops Near Fort Bliss Museum in El Paso

Granite Countertops for Renters and Residents Near Fort Bliss Museum

All homes close to Fort Bliss Museum are rentals. Not a figure of speech. The census tracts say the rental-occupied housing here totals 100%. This changes how we approach granite countertops near Fort Bliss Museum El Paso for this area.

Most of the housing near the museum and along Chaffee Road were constructed in the early 1980s. These were built in the military style of the day. They had simple kitchens, laminate countertops, and small bathroom vanities. The original countertops show wear and tear after 40 years. Burned on them, chipped in some spots, edges peeling. It's common.

Property owners renting apartments in this area face a choice. Spending more money on replacing laminate countertops with granite is an investment with strong potential returns. Granite countertops stand up to the turnover typical for Fort Bliss housing. A young family rents for two or three years, then moves out. Laminate countertops won't hold up for this rental time. Granite countertops will.

We do the following for landlords and property managers in the Fort Bliss Museum area: kitchen countertops on galley counters in the 1980s era single family military housing; bathroom countertops for smaller sinks for one person in single family military homes; and countertop installation between renters to minimize delays and move outs.

We also answer tenant inquiries about granite countertops. The median age here is just 22. New families, new renters, and first-time renter households. They want a kitchen with granite countertops, even if they are renting. We have worked with tenants and landlords who share a budget for new countertops. Some landlords agree to install granite countertops if the tenant agrees to stay through a full rental term. We've had both of those situations happen more times than we can count.

One third of the housing units near Fort Bliss Museum are single family detached houses. The rest is duplexes, row houses, and multi-family housing, including along Gruber and Gruber Loop. We use slab granite to fill the narrow kitchen spaces in smaller multi-family apartments. It fits into L-shaped counters without much leftover slab space. We work directly with the granite mining quarries in Brazil. This way our cost from the Brazilian quarry through your kitchen stays low.

The Borderlands environment and arid desert heat is another factor in this area. El Paso's high summer temperatures break down the bonding adhesive between laminate and the countertop. You get laminate peeling away, often around sink cutouts. Granite countertops don't have that problem. They don't mind 105-degree July days, followed by cold January mornings. Renters between leases often have no climate control during the turnover. Granite countertops handle the temperature change better than any other material.

Since 1985 we've been a locally owned shop. Our granite countertops showroom and fabricator is located on Gateway Blvd E, 12 minutes from the museum southbound. We've had property management companies come in to check out granite countertop options in person at the shop. We like that step. You see the veining, the pattern, the slab thickness. You won't see the same depth in photographs on the web.

So whether you're the landlord of several rental duplexes off Marshall Road, or a new renter wanting granite countertops, you can find your perfect countertops at our shop just minutes from the museum. Housing is older, turnover is high, the desert isn't kind on products. Granite just lasts longer out here.

Getting to COMAF Marble & Granite from the Fort Bliss Museum Area

It only takes 12 minutes. Even in traffic, you're looking at 11 minutes.

Here's how to get to our Gateway Blvd E showroom from Fort Bliss Museum: travel south on Chaffee Road towards the main gate (Fred Wilson Avenue); continue south from Fred Wilson until you connect to Dyer Street, and continue towards the US-54 on-ramp for El Paso downtown; take I-10 East and get off at the Trowbridge exit; turn on to Gateway Blvd E. Our showroom at 3100 Gateway Blvd E is located right on the corridor and easily visible from the main road.

It is about 5.8 miles in total. The journey is direct and you do not have to go through any of those confusing frontage road loops.

By the way, there are a few convenient restaurants and eateries on Gateway Blvd right near our showroom. So why not treat yourself to breakfast or lunch before or after your visit to our showroom? A morning to stop at our location, view some beautiful granite slabs we have imported straight from Brazil, enjoy a bite and head back to the post.

We see a great many residents from Fort Bliss Museum neighborhoods come into our store in the mornings on weekdays. The base traffic calms down after 0900, so you can expect to hit every green light on Dyer if you come to our store at this time. Saturday visits also work perfectly fine as there are hardly any post residents commuting that day.

Our small, family-run location has been located at 3100 Gateway Blvd E since our beginning in El Paso in 1985. All of our granite slabs are on display so the customers can really get a sense of what the stone looks like, not just what a 3 inch sample chip would give them. That's important because granite countertops are not all the same; the veins and color variation within granite can be all over the place. A single sample cannot do the stone justice.

Alternatively, if you live east of Fort Bliss Museum near Gruber Road and Gruber Gate, you can simply turn on to Loop 375 and connect up on I-10 without having to deal with Dyer Street entirely. The trip is still about the same length in distance, but feels faster as you do not have to go through all of the stop lights near Haan Road.

Either route gets you to us quickly. We drive both routes ourselves dozens of times when heading to perform installations within the Fort Bliss Museum neighborhoods. With that said, there's no such thing as gridlock in the Borderlands like in cities such as Dallas or Houston. 12 minutes of travel will be a 12 minute trip.

Parking is simple. You pull into our lot right in front of the store, walk in the front door, and our staff will walk you through the various granite countertop colors we have available. We do offer granite countertops in warm earth tone colors that work well with the colors found in the housing areas built during the early 1980s within Fort Bliss Museum neighborhoods. Warm browns, desert golds, deep blacks with copper flecks.

If for some reason you cannot visit our showroom, pick up the phone and give us a call at (915) 345-3774 to schedule a time to deliver our samples to you. And we do this a lot in those cases for residents close to the post, who can't get away during duty hours.

What Housing Stock Near Fort Bliss Says to a Countertop

Most of the homes around the Fort Bliss Museum were built circa 1981. And we see a lot of clues in that data. Homes from that time period often were built with laminate countertops, and often with tile countertops as well. And now that it's 40 years since those homes went up, those surfaces show their age. And that's why we often see these kitchens around the Fort Bliss Museum:

The edges of the laminate countertop near the sink starting to peel off, since decades' worth of wet cleaning and leaking have worn down the seal. Tile countertops with dark grout lines that were caused by the years of Borderland cooking and baking. Kitchens with just the counter length needed to be practical; most homes in this neighborhood have the narrow galley-style layout that we can make feel roomier. Bathroom vanity tops that have chips and visible water damage from years of daily use.

And most of these homes around Fort Bliss Museum are rentals. And that has a big impact on how a rental manager or landlord might talk to you about granite countertops, and their durability and value. They know they need granite countertops that can handle years of tenant turnover. And granite countertops can do just that: they don't get scratched when you drag pots and pans across the top. They don't get stained when you forget that mug of coffee you put down on the countertop the day before, and granite countertops look great when photographed as part of your listing photos. Which, in a rental market, matters.

But there are also some different factors with Fort Bliss Museum and its housing. The people in these homes are younger: the median age around Fort Bliss Museum is 22. This means these kitchens get used quickly and hard, especially from the very young military families that fill these homes. And since military families often cook in a time crunch, granite countertops have to work hard to make it happen. You don't have a trivet to put under the hot pan when it comes right out of the stove. Our stone granite countertops from Brazil are heat resistant enough to take that pan from the stove without a worry. The density and heat-tolerance of that stone is consistent with every granite slab we sell.

And around Fort Bliss Museum, 30% of the structures are single-family detached homes; the rest are duplexes, townhomes, and multi-family homes. And if you manage a property and have several rental units in the housing stock around either Gruber Road and Chaffee Road, granite countertops are a great investment that pays off when you install them and let them be for 5, 6, or even 10 lease cycles. Laminate countertops just won't last two.

As a family-owned business that has served El Paso since 1985, we've seen housing developments around Fort Bliss transform, with many units being replaced or renovated while other families move in and settle for years. Kitchens in these homes that get granite countertops will stay looking great for years to come; and the ones that don't eventually return to our schedule. The small kitchen spaces that were very common when homes like these were built in the early '80s also play into your favor. A smaller countertop length means less granite material needed to install. And a granite countertop install for a kitchen with smaller space near Fort Bliss Museum can often fit onto one single slab. This allows us to keep waste low, and gives you more granite options to choose from remnant countertops when you visit us in El Paso at 3100 Gateway Blvd E.

Granite countertops are also a great request for bathrooms in these homes, too. Bathrooms in homes from that era are often dated and often have narrow vanities and bathroom vanity tops. But a granite or quartz vanity top transforms a bathroom without a full remodel, and every piece we fabricate, cut, and manufacture is done right here in El Paso.

So whether you're a rental manager looking after properties near Fort Bliss Museum or you are a homeowner and will be living in these homes for a while, granite countertops are a great fit for this kind of housing stock in El Paso. The bones are here in these homes; it's the countertops and bathroom vanity tops that need updating.

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