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Finishes and Textures:
Natural
The natural surface texture is achieved by ripping along its line of cleavage to reveal the natural grain & texture. This texture gives an undulating surface with great character. The surface comes with natural clefts giving a very natural look.
Flamed
Texture provides a rough surface. The roughness in the surface is a result of bursting of crystals when the stone is heated. Such a surface gives an irregular textured finish.
Polished
Polished surface brings out the brilliant colours and grains of natural stones. The shine on stone surface comes from polishing bricks and powders used during fabrication and not from any coating.
Honed
The honed texture is produced by grinding a surface with high grit material to a uniform specification, such that it does not produce a reflective surface. Thus honed stone colours are not as vibrant as polished stones. A smooth finish with a slight sheen is produced by using a polishing head. This surface is very smooth, but often very porous.
Bush Hammered
A pounding action that develops a textured surface. The top surface is pneumatically tooled to produce a pitted or grooved surface finish.
Sawn
Sawn surface is coarsely polished leaving a semi-smooth, regular finish. It is done by using a gang saw.
Sand Blasted
Producing a finish similar to cleft, sand blasting involves projecting a high-pressure airline coarse-grained grit, onto the top surface of the stone. It is characterized by a textured surface with a matte gloss.
Machine cut/Sawn Edges
Such tiles or slabs have the most commonly used type of edge. Machine cut material is easy to install. The machine cut/sawn edge slabs are subjected to a high speed rolling cutter blade to get a very smooth edge surface with a complementary (90°) angle at the vertices of the tiles/slabs.
Hand Cut Edges
Hand cut edges is a labour intensive process of cutting using chisels. This is generally used in the case of sandstone. Hand cut material is generally used for exterior walls and pavements.
Chamfered Edges
The chamfered edge slabs look classic on exterior walls or any part of an interior. These slabs most commonly find place in kitchen tops or on table tops. Chamfering the edges is achieved by following the two processes of first sawing and then polishing. Chamfering removes the shine and whiteness of sawn edges.
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