Hand honed

The hand honing is done by hand rather than machines and therefore you will see abrasive and carborandum markings within the finish. The hand honed surface is smooth with fine (visible or little noticeable) circular lines. This kind of finish is mostly used for external floors.

Honed

The honing is created using different grades of abrasives under factory conditions. The honed surface gives a relative small and pale reflection (a matt-shiny finish depending on the stone). The surface is smooth matt, without visible grooves. This kind of finish is the most recommendable and is applied in internal flooring in natural stone.

Polished

The polishing takes on the same machine as the honing but with even finer abrasives. By polishing a stone the colours are reinforced and the stone gets a reflecting surface with a high gloss. The degree of polish of the natural stone is mainly determined by the degree of polish of its mineral elements and by its texture. Therefore not every natural stone can be polished. This kind of finish is advised against by the Belgian Building & Research Institute for internal flooring in natural stone (cfr. Technical Guideline ref. TV213). But it’s perfectly usable for wall covering and all sorts of cut to size.

Antico

The tiles are hand honed and afterwards tumbled.
Materials: Asian Blue, Jura Beige, Noce, Persian Red, Persian White, Thala Beige and Tuscany.
Appearance: the floor has the impression of a worn look as if it has been used for years and has a natural patina from the start

Brossato

The tiles are sawn, hand honed and brushed.
Materials: Simyra
Appearance: The floor is antislip, but you can walk on it barefoot, easy to maintain and less sensitive to scratches.

Rustico

The corners of the tiles are rounded off and the edges slightly sawn off at an angle. The top surface is honed.
Materials: Boisvillon, Massangis Roche Jaune Claire and Mirabelle.
Appearance: The floor has a rustic radiation and is therefore suitable for a classic interior.

Sablino

The tiles are first hand honed or honed, then sandblasted and afterwards brushed.
Materials: Jura Beige, Buxy Beige.
Appearance: Semi rough finish which feels very natural, easy maintenance and less sensitive to scratches.

Satino

The tiles are first hand honed, then flamed, and afterwards brushed.
Materials: Belgian Blue stone, Gris Catalan, Moors Green, Pepperino Dark and Twilight.
Appearance: Semi rough finish that’s antislip, but you can walk it barefoot, easy maintenance and less sensitive to scratches.

Versailles

The surfaces of the tiles are hand honed and brushed, the edges are milled.
Materials: Massangis Roche Jaune Claire.
Appearance: The floor has a rustic radiation and breathes out the atmosphere of ancient Burgundy buildings.

Vieux Manoir

The surface of the tile is rustically distressed by a combination of hand honing, milling and brushing, also the edges are highly distressed.
Materials: Pierre de Bourgogne.
Appearance: The floor has a rustic radiation and breathes out the atmosphere of ancient Burgundy buildings.

Flamed
Flames are brought into contact with the (wet) sawn slab of natural stone in this typical mechanical finish. This finish is processed before cutting to size as it can only be processed on big surfaces. Visible and covered edges cannot be flamed. The flames are directed obliquely and to the whole surface. The temperature shock causes the eruption of the grains on the surface, what gives the typical texture. This is a finish mainly done to hardwearing natural stone.

Diamond cut
Finish of a stone sawn by a machine with a diamond wire. The stone surface shows typical saw cut markings: small waves or cuts of only a couple of tenths of a mm deep. These markings are parallel with each other, in the direction taken by the saw or the wire.

Bush hammered
This finish of the stone is obtained by treating the surface with a bush hammer or prong hammer (manual) or with a hydraulic hammer (mechanical). Bush hammering wipes out all traces of previous finishing. The look of the manufactured surface depends on the number of pointy bulges on the hammer. The distance between the small numerous pits depends on the distance in between the points.
If done mechanically the pits are spread evenly on the whole surface.

Chisseled
This finish is manufactured by use of an air chisel. The surface can be best described as a kind of fine chipping with fine interrupted grooves. These grooves are often positioned parallel or with a slight slope with regard to the edges.

Natural cleft
Natural cleft is not a manual finish, but simply the natural look of the surface of some stones. Most cleft stones such as slate are sold in this natural finish.

Hand cleft
Hand cleft is a finish obtained by manual hammering with a chisel of the surface of the stone