Here at Hard Rock Flooring, we specialise in providing a bespoke service for the supply of your stone and porcelains from the sourcing of original materials, including even the rarest types, to the subsequent maintenance and upkeep following your purchase and installation. With over thirty years of experience within the world of both natural stone and porcelain tiles, and unique relationships with a worldwide variety of quarries and suppliers, our small but highly skilled team led by Will Luitsz and Iain Marfleet can offer you a truly exclusive experience.
Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic rock produced around 375 million years ago from clay under compression. When it was formed the clay flakes formed 'layers' perpendicular to the pressure. When expertly cut by striking parallel to the layers with specialised tools in the quarry we get the form smooth flat sheets of stone that have become so familiar in roofing and flooring for centuries. Slate is often thought of as being just grey in colour, especially when seen in roof tiles, but it naturally occurs in a variety of beautiful colours even from a single place: for example, slate from North Wales can be found not just in a variety of shades of grey (from very pale to very dark), but it may also be purple, green or cyan.
CI+ Matting from Dural UK serves to make it easier to install floors of all kinds, even on difficult surfaces like old screed or wood, and they also protect the new floor covering from moisture seeping from below as well as preventing stretching or cracks. The mats are made of yellow polythene with a grid of texturing nodules and a supporting polypropylene fleece layer on the back. This combination means the matting is resistant to most chemicals. Silent Walk matting is only 1.5 mm thick and consists of 3 layers of polypropylene and a layer of plastic-bonded quartz sand, which delivers outstanding improvements in terms of footfall sound reduction and insulation.
The world of stone has seen radical changes over the last few years. For thousands of years man has quarried or mined the best stone available. Now with modern manufacturing techniques we are able to create the same finish with ease of maintenance. This will never replace natural stone but is an effective addition in areas such as bathrooms or kitchens. We have selected an exciting range of porcelain tiles from Italy's best manufacturers. Between them they cover everything from astonishingly realistic wood-effect porcelain tiles to modern smooth stone with non-slip finishes with a detour through medieval design on the way.
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