The front door to our new house is sheltered by a small portico. Today we installed a single 5-1/4 thick slab of bluestone as the floor for that area. Working with a stone that weighs over a ton was no easy feat but in the end, it fit perfectly into the opening which was lined in a copper pan and sloped downward to shed water. Jeanine was on hand to film the installation which took about an hour in total. Our past homes have all incorporated smaller stones set in mortar which are much easier to install and significantly less expensive. Over time, however, the constant freeze-thaw cycles experienced during the winter lead to the failure of the joints. The slab we installed today should last for hundreds of years.