Continental Stone Marble and Granite

Continental Stone Marble and Granite is a family-owned stone shop in Leominster, Massachusetts that imports, fabricates and installs granite, marble, quartz, quartzite, soapstone and porcelain surfaces. Its showroom is on Research Drive, with a design center listed at 287 Leominster Road in Sterling; the company says it has been at this for about 20 years, and the Better Business Bureau file puts the business start at February 2003. Manoel "Manny" Leite is listed as president and Norma Soares-Leite as vice president. Most of what homeowners hire them for is kitchen and bathroom countertops, with tile backsplashes, stair treads and fireplace surrounds alongside. Reviewers who describe the finished work keep returning to the same details: seams that are hard to see, precise cuts, and crews that clean up. A 2025 reviewer wrote that the granite installation "came out flawless," and a 2024 reviewer named the two installers who arrived on time and answered questions. Showroom staff are named repeatedly and warmly across several years of reviews, including Bruna, Carol and Norma, and one homeowner on a tight budget and timeline credited Bruna with finishing ahead of schedule. The complaints are specific and worth reading before you sign. A 2023 reviewer described paying $8,000 for a small quartz top that arrived with a one-inch gap filled with white caulk and a cabinet finish rubbed off. A 2024 reviewer described a sink that was never mounted correctly, a return visit that removed plumbing they had asked to keep, and being yelled at by staff and owners over the phone; that account also says the technician who did the work was not a licensed plumber. Another 2024 reviewer said the person who walks you through the slabs is the receptionist, that the promised specialist never materialised, and that installation was upcharged. The outside records are mixed in the same way. Google shows 4.5 stars from 76 ratings. The BBB profile is not accredited and carries a B- grade, which BBB attributes solely to the business not responding to one complaint on file. An enforcement-record site reports a U.S. Department of Labor OSHA inspection of the Sterling facility that produced one citation and $4,375 in proposed penalties. A Reddit commenter in r/WorcesterMA in 2024 recommended them for deep discounts on partial slabs, saying a bathroom top came in at $400 because a kitchen job had used most of the slab. They are a reasonable call if you want to walk a real slab yard in central Massachusetts, and the remnant pricing is a genuine draw for small tops. Confirm in writing who is doing your install, who handles plumbing disconnection and reconnection, and what happens if a seam or fit needs correcting.