Comments From Fabricators

Granite Shield Protection
PERMANENT GRANITE SEALER

The letter below is from a former Innovative Stone regional manager that was so impressed with the
Granite Shield Process, that he left Innovative Stone and is now a Granite Shield Distributor in
Delaware.

"I used to be a Regional Manager for Innovative Stone, LLC. Prior to my resignation in 2009, my territory spanned Philly, PA to
Kitty Hawk, NC and contained 83 Home Depot stores and almost a dozen ICF (Innovative Certified Fabricators), Everlife, and
national program fabrication facilities.   Innovative Stone, LLC is the national provider of Permashield which is currently used
to treat Stonemark, The Home Depot’s branded natural stone product, and also Everlife, Innovative’s own national brand.
Consentino, DuPont, and Artisan are also national competitors, marketing their claims of superiority of performance for their
pre-treaded granites backed by a 15 year warranty.

Throughout my career I have become intimately acquainted with most national pre-treated products, and have come to my a
personal conclusion that Granite Shield offers a unique set of benefits to the end-user that other programs cannot provide.
One of the benefits is that Granite Shield does not narrow a client’s selection of stones to a pre-determined color pallet of just
30 to 50 stones in a polished granite category. Granite Shield allows for the highest level of protection on any color available
in the industry, and the performance of that protection is absolutely the strongest benefit beyond any question.

With Granite Shield, I was most impressed that spills do not need to be wiped up immediately, the product has a less than
1% failure rate, and the “lifetime” coverage is not limited to a pre-determined service life that qualifies as lifetime. With Granite
Shield “lifetime” refers to the actual service life of the stone surface. Also, there is no required maintenance, the product does
not require re-application at any time, and the use of ammonia glass cleaners and bleach based household cleansers all
prove acceptable products for cleaning. These are just a few of the major differences I found with Granite Shield compared to
even the best national products which, in my opinion, do not even begin to provide these benefits, or performance longevity.

The comparison is so simple… anyone inclined to protect their investment with a pre-treated product need not do a thing but
go to every manufacture’s website and print a copy of that product’s warranty, then compare the contents to the warranty
provided with Granite Shield. The difference becomes blatantly evident from even the first line. The other national brands offer
only a 15 year term of coverage defined by their own words as “limited”.

I’ve always felt that warranties should NOT be marketing tools used to sell a product, but then offer no protection in the event
that coverage is needed. A warranty should be a declaration providing a guarantee of product performance that can be
expected by the customer and offering the coverage needed to deliver that performance in the event of an unexpected failure.

My research has led me to a personal conclusion that Granite Shield is the only national level product on the market providing
that guarantee of performance while fully minimizing the end-user’s responsibility to provide and maintain maximum
performance and coverage.

Granite Shield is revolutionizing the industry and are quickly becoming the “new standard” in treated surfaces. The best way I
have articulated this in the past is by stating, “Yesterday [these other] companies set the bar with a record breaking high jump
by introducing their pre-treated programs, but today, Granite Shield has landed on the moon! "

Thank you,
Mercy Allan Jantz
Granite Shield of Delaware
(302) 547-7715, DE ext     (443) 477-4368, MD ext

“My name is Karan Barber and I am the Granite Shield Distributor for this area. This product is terrific. It
truly is amazing! We have Shielded several types of stone and put them to the test. We put red wine, red
Kool-Aid, iodine, brake fluid, oven cleaner, lemon juice etc. on the shielded stone, left it for 24 hours and
it wiped right off with a wet paper towel. Water beads on honed stone.”

Thanks,
Karen Barber
Granite Shield Distributor / Applicator
Monroe, NC 28110