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Exterior Stone
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We pride ourselves on providing very high quality flooring stone and marble with a consistency of colour, stock and delivery unrivalled by other non-specialist suppliers. We offer a unique bespoke service; skirting boards, patterned features, framing etc. in stone, in fact anything in stone to match! As a customer or designer, you can choose any finish from any of our products.
Jerusalem Stone
Jerusalem Stone is the trade name of stone quarried in areas from the Jordan River on the east of Israel to the Mediterranean Sea on the country's west, and from the southern Port of Eilat on the Red Sea to The Galilee and Haifa on the north. It is mostly dolomitic limestone or dolomite, and tends to be of a gold or reddish hue, though some varieties are grey or nearly white.< br /> Dolomite is composed in large part of the mineral dolomite, which is made of calcium magnesium carbonate crystals. Dolomite crystals are white, grey to pink in colour and it is this that gives Jerusalem stone its characteristic tint. Dolomitic limestone is where the stone has been formed by the replacement of limestone with dolomite crystals.
Mediterranean Stone
Our range comes from plentiful quarries in the Eastern Desert near the River Nile Valley, the Valley of Kings and Aswan in the south. Exterior Stone taps the most dynamic and beautiful sources 100 million years in the making. Egyptian Stone’s unique material of dolomitic limestone is a union of minerals from low and high-range mountains, compressing and fusing a blend of fossilized sea creatures and gem-like ingredients that give you a creamy golden or honey hue.
Travertine
Travertine is a sedimentary rock. Travertine is a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals; typically aragonite, but often recrystallized to or primarily calcite; which is deposited from the water of mineral springs (especially hot springs) or streams saturated with calcium carbonate. When pure, travertine is white, but it is often brown to yellow due to impurities. When carbon dioxide-rich water percolates through rocks in limestone areas, the water dissolves the limestone and becomes saturated with it. When the water resurfaces later, the sudden drop in pressure and the change in temperature cause the water to release the carbon dioxide gas, much like fizzy drinks. The calcium carbonate then recrystallizes, often over minute underwater plants. The resulting rock is typically quite porous with numerous cavities.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock, formed from limestone by heat and pressure causing the limestone and any fossilised materials to recrystallise and form large coarse grains of calcite. Impurities present in the original limestone give the marble its colour and minerals form the veins that are a characteristic feature of the stone. Marble is found all over the world in different forms and the properties of each stone vary according to its composition.
We pride ourselves on providing very high quality flooring stone and marble with a consistency of colour, stock and delivery unrivalled by other non-specialist suppliers. We offer a unique bespoke service; skirting boards, patterned features, framing etc. in stone, in fact anything in stone to match! As a customer or designer, you can choose any finish from any of our products.
Jerusalem Stone
Jerusalem Stone is the trade name of stone quarried in areas from the Jordan River on the east of Israel to the Mediterranean Sea on the country's west, and from the southern Port of Eilat on the Red Sea to The Galilee and Haifa on the north. It is mostly dolomitic limestone or dolomite, and tends to be of a gold or reddish hue, though some varieties are grey or nearly white.< br /> Dolomite is composed in large part of the mineral dolomite, which is made of calcium magnesium carbonate crystals. Dolomite crystals are white, grey to pink in colour and it is this that gives Jerusalem stone its characteristic tint. Dolomitic limestone is where the stone has been formed by the replacement of limestone with dolomite crystals.
Mediterranean Stone
Our range comes from plentiful quarries in the Eastern Desert near the River Nile Valley, the Valley of Kings and Aswan in the south. Exterior Stone taps the most dynamic and beautiful sources 100 million years in the making. Egyptian Stone’s unique material of dolomitic limestone is a union of minerals from low and high-range mountains, compressing and fusing a blend of fossilized sea creatures and gem-like ingredients that give you a creamy golden or honey hue.
Travertine
Travertine is a sedimentary rock. Travertine is a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals; typically aragonite, but often recrystallized to or primarily calcite; which is deposited from the water of mineral springs (especially hot springs) or streams saturated with calcium carbonate. When pure, travertine is white, but it is often brown to yellow due to impurities. When carbon dioxide-rich water percolates through rocks in limestone areas, the water dissolves the limestone and becomes saturated with it. When the water resurfaces later, the sudden drop in pressure and the change in temperature cause the water to release the carbon dioxide gas, much like fizzy drinks. The calcium carbonate then recrystallizes, often over minute underwater plants. The resulting rock is typically quite porous with numerous cavities.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock, formed from limestone by heat and pressure causing the limestone and any fossilised materials to recrystallise and form large coarse grains of calcite. Impurities present in the original limestone give the marble its colour and minerals form the veins that are a characteristic feature of the stone. Marble is found all over the world in different forms and the properties of each stone vary according to its composition.
