home decorating
Saracen vault staircase is a traditional technique in current practice in southern France, the staircase is built of hollow bricks, rough cast in plaster or cement mortar.
It is composed of a double vaulted framework one vault is called the bottom vault and the other is the distribution vault and a cladding which forms the steps and risers, the treads and risers are laid on a filling of tiers of hollow bricks, rough cast in plaster and resting on the vault.
These must be imbedded 7 to 10 cm in the walls of the framing, the work is carried out from the bottom up and should be undertaken by specialised marble masons.
Many finishes are available and extend our large choice of products to meet your requirements, polished is a finish with a smooth shiny surface reflecting light, without any visible scratches.
Honed is a finish for stone or marble with the irregularities eliminated, showing only very fine scratches, hardly visible to the eye, split is a Rough finish with the central part protruding above edges, bush Hammered is a Finish obtained by hitting the stone with a bush hammer a special hammer with a grooved head comprised of 16 to 64 teeth which leaves a rough but consistent grid texture of 1 to 3 mm deep.
Rocamat offers a full line of French limestones, marbles and granites: wall cladding, flooring, tiles, facade, staircase, fireplace, bathroom, Kitchen, pool, cut-to-size stones.
Brushed is a Rustic finish obtained by rubbing the surface with plastic and metallic brushes, rough Honed is a Finish with a smooth surface and some fine stripes, 0.
marble flooring
marble kitchen countertop
1 to 0, 2 mm deep, of unspecified direction.
Tooled is a Flat finish composed of fine parallel ribbing, 1 to 2 mm deep, between which the ridge has a rough split texture, flamed is a Flat finish, slightly roughened, obtained by passing a high temperature jet of flame over the rough face.
The thermal shock splits off the surface grains, mechanically Chiseled is obtained by the following way.
A bush hammer fitted with Chisels attacks the sawn slab, perpendicularly to the surface, giving the finish its characteristic flat profile, the machine' s automatic feed ensures that the textures are parallel and regularly spaced, approximately 25 grooves per dm.
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