Stone Fabrication and its Features

  Marble – a Shine Stone
  Already name of marble speaks for itself (“marmaros” from Greece – a shined stone). This finishing material is shining in every aspect. Thanks to low hardness of marble, it is well polishing and gives soft & deep shine.

It shines and plays pink, yellow, gray, blue, greenish, reddish, brown amazing colors and their possible combinations. In a marble usually lot of veins (called “stone veins”) . On cuts of marble Jura, Rosso Verona or Fossile Marrone and many others the attentive eye will distinguish the ancient mollusks, the hardened seaweed, corals, and cockleshells.

Some marbles have inserts of quartz and granite, golden and sparkle crystals.

  Riches of textures and enormous color palette from absolutely black to milky-white allow embodying in a wide range. Depending on the picked up colors, the marble interior can be warm or cold, massive or air, magnificent or modest, dark or light.

  Marble Processing
  The majority stone companies adhere to uniform standards and let out a tile of the sizes 300 х 300, 305 х 305, 400 х 400, 600 х 300 mm.

The thickness depending on purposes and varies from 10 to 20 mm (a floor tile) and above.

  Surfaces of slabs and tiles have not a lot of variants of processing there are: polishing, honing, flaming, artificial wearing (”antic”) surfaces finishes.

  Polishing and honing increase a natural beauty of a stone. Flaming gives to a material anti slippery feature.

The increasing popularity of “antic” which are preferred by fans of olden time and stylization of interiors as antiquity.

It is considered, that imitation of natural ageing (aeration) creates special sensation of softness and warmth.

The especially widely made old marble is used for floor facing at fashionable restaurants and salons, with its help designers try to introduce spirit of olden time, authenticity in interiors.

  Purposely recreating this natural phenomenon, it is possible to receive various degrees of ageing.

The effect of ageing is reached by surface processing on a special technique, which can include both mechanical (including manual), and chemical impact. For example, for fabricate of table-tops, ornaments of walls and a floor often use a mosaic from a stone.

It place in a special drum head where stones, like a pebble, rub the each about the each other, getting the rounded forms.

  Marble Application
  This finishing material is applied both for interior, and to exterior areas. Floors, walls, stairways, fireplaces, columns, tabletops, countertops, lamps when they are trimmed with marble, are looked always perfectly.

  Marble Properties
  Marble is durable, with good resistance to temperature and moisture material.

But it is a soft and absorbing material.

As is known, slate stone and marble are sedimentary carbon rocks, therefore differ instability to acids, food dyes, thermal blows. Marble surfaces should be preserved against thermal impact – the cup of hot coffee for a tabletop can appear fatal. To use marble on steps or on floor is possible, but should exclude hit possibility on a surface of abrasive particles, for example sand, – they will scratch a marble. When selecting marble for wet areas, it is necessary to remember, that at long contact with water marble can be discolored or can change color.

The reason is oxidation of ferriferous minerals. And still for bathrooms this material we will more preferably than granite. 

  It is very important to select a correct bonding material for marble installing. In case of using cement slurry or glue for a installing tile, after and while on a stone surface ineradicable stains may appear – it is salt or painting additives.

Therefore it is recommended to apply special glutinous structures and facing plasters.
If to consider these nuances and to pay attention during using stone, to admire
beauty of the selected stone can not only you, but also your grandsons and great-grandsons.

  Marble Care
  As it was already marked, marble is practically eternal, however, as any natural material it is requires protection against environments – a dirt, waters, salts, sand and acids. For these purposes special means are used: the stone impregnations, sealing, crystallizing, and even ordinary waxing.
 
  First of all it concerns the polished floors.

The basic enemy of polishing is the dirt; therefore first of all it is necessary to take care of multistage protection and regular surface cleaning. Also for not protected stone floors there are special substances which not only wash off dirt, but also create a protective film. This film is reducing sliding even on a damp stone surface.
If damages of a stone are serious, it forces to more radical action, it is a restoration. Restoration of stone surfaces required the special equipment.

As a result the stone gets a original appearance.

The basic suppliers of “a shine stone” are Italy, Greece, and Turkey. In Russia it is mainly in Urals Mountains, in Western the Eastern Siberia and on Kola Peninsula. To tell the truth, quality of a stone does not depend on that, whence it has arrived, it is more important its observance technologies extraction and processing.

  At purchase a slabs of natural marble it is necessary to pay attention to the size and quality of obverse surfaces. For a first class slabs with the polished or honed surfaces visible defects in general are inadmissible.

The second class may have some defects: no more than two-three tiny damages of corners and having chopped off on perimeter ridges.

The colored marble of the first and second class intended for an interior finish may have one only, not through crack of a tectonic origin.

  It is necessary to consider, that there are stones, with difficult enough for color matching, and it is practically homogeneous.

The difference in color tiles of the same batch is the feature of a natural material; therefore it is necessary for buyer to discuss with the supplier about possible differences and find out the greatest possible quantity of samples.

  The standard slab with polished face by 10 mm thickness may costs from 15 to 80 dollars per/sq.m.

The basic price factors are a non-standard form, a color, a kind of processing.

The price for separate unique rocks can surpass the basic rules considerably. For example, marble Verde S. Nicolaus – one of the most expensive marble, having blue-green color, costs up to 120 dollars per/ sq.m. At increase in a thickness of a slab (to 15, 20, and sometimes and up to 30 mm) its cost can grow several times.
Marble – an honorable material: a correct and competent choice. Professional’s recommendations about proper using and care will return a lot.

  And then everyone dealing with marble will agree with words of great Michelangelo: “Marble Is soul of a universe, the cleanest essence created by the God: it is not simply symbols of the God, and a reflection of Its face, means which the Lord shows itself. Only God hand is capable to create this amazing beauty”

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