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Starting to design your patio stones or backyard tile flooring?

Starting to design your patio stones or backyard tile flooring?

Starting to design your patio stones or backyard tile flooring? Finding the right flooring for backyard or patio stone pavers is one of the most important decisions in the process of designing. You will see the many flooring options in the market. And having so much options to choose from can make your selection very difficult. Natural Stone US team would like to assist you to make your decision. Let’s start with what is travertine, travertine stone pavers where you can use it and its properties.

Travertine and Travertine Pavers

Travertine is formed in hot springs and/or limestone caves. Travertine is not the same as Marble or Limestone which falls in the metamorphic rock category. Key characteristics of Travertine stone are the holes within the stone which are caused by carbon dioxide evasion. Travertine tile and paver reflects unique character, stability, and grandeur. Variations in travertine’s broad range of color, pattern, and texture are visually interesting and impossible to replicate. And, because it comes from the earth, from ecological compositions, it is a natural choice. It is proper for indoor or outdoor usage. The advantage for using travertine pavers for the outside is that absorbs water quickly, making it perfect to use it around the swimming pool area. Due to been non-slippery, many people are using travertine pavers for their outdoor applications such as patio floor tiles, backyards pavers, driveway pavers, walkway pavers, pool deck stone tiles.

Philadelphia Travertine Pavers Tumbled French Pattern
Gold Travertine Pavers Tumbled French (Versailles) Pattern and Pool coping

In flooring market, there are many choices to choose from in color, type, quality, and style. The style is what we will try to explain here French Pattern,  Four Piece Pattern or Ashlar Pattern. French Pattern is the one of the most popular styles in the world. The terms of French Pattern, Ashlar Pattern or the Four Piece Pattern have the same meaning. They are used interchangeably and are just regional ways of saying the same thing. We can identify the qualities of French or Versailles Pattern set as being one piece of 16″x24″, one piece of  8″x16″, two pieces of 16″x16″, and two pieces of 8″x8″. The total square footage of one “French Pattern Set” covers eight square feet.  If you would like to get more information about the layout of french (Versailles) pattern, please visit our layout designs page.

 

Why Choose Natural Stone?

Why Choose Natural Stone?

Natural stone is held in high regard as a premier building material because it reflects unique character, stability, and grandeur. Variations in natural stone’s broad range of color, pattern, and texture are visually interesting and impossible to replicate. And, because it comes from the earth, from eco-friendly compositions, it is a natural choice.

Variety 
The diversity of natural stone products encourages limitless design potential. Aesthetically, what you do with stone is as varied as your imagination. Its many factors in the way stone formed within the Earth contribute to its varieties and enhance the creativity it provides – something that cannot be duplicated in a laboratory or come from a mold.

Durability

Natural stone exhibits a durability not found in other building materials. There is an emotional connection to buildings and monuments built in stone that carries a great deal of meaning due to enduring history and a legacy of mankind through the ages.

Unique 
Design projects should stand out and reflect the passion, taste, and personality of the designer. Natural stone is a one-of-a-kind building material that sets you apart from others because it can’t be mimicked, manufactured, or faked.

Value
The value in natural stone is more than a monetary measure. It involves longevity, ease of maintenance, permanence and stability that far exceed initial investment. Utilizing natural stone is now more affordable than ever due to advancing stone quarrying and processing technology that has improved efficiency over the years. New automated machinery allows fabricators to cut natural stone thinner, faster, more consistently and at less cost than in times past. Development of anchoring technologies and systems make installation easier, quicker, and more secure. In addition, natural stone is simple to care for, has an appearance that literally improves with age and can last a lifetime.

10 Good Reasons for Natural Stone

Natural stone is a natural product with individual properties determined by the type and bonding of the minerals comprising the natural stone. Natural stone holds an outstanding position among all building materials. Components of natural stone are unique specimens, which can be combined with each other and with many other materials.

Natural stone is ecological. No energy is needed for its actual manufacture. Energy is only consumed for quarrying and processing, but the share is small compared with other building materials. The stone is extracted mostly from relatively small quarries without major blasting operations. The unused stone waste can be used directly for filling in the parts of the quarry where stone has been extracted. Nothing is lost in the complete cycle of natural stone quarrying, processing, and returning to nature.

Natural stone is environmentally compatible. As a natural building material, natural stone contains no pollutants that are damaging to the health. Natural stone requires no auxiliary chemical substances such as protective coatings, impregnating agents or coatings before it can be used as a building material.

Natural stone is varied. No other building material has as many different colors and structures as natural stone. Various surface finishing processes make this variety virtually unlimited. Developers and architects therefore have a broad spectrum of choice, which allows matching to any desired appearance or ambiance. Natural stones are often chosen for their good visual and technical qualities. Natural stone is available in a variety of different colors, structures and textures. A suitable natural stone is available for virtually any requirement imposed on a building material.

Natural stone is individual. Any desired shape can be provided, not only square or rectangular slabs. Modern processing machines allow inlay work in natural stone. The variety of the stones and the individual processing and design possibilities constitute the uniqueness of the building material.

Natural stone ages well. Many natural stones are like good wine. They only attain their full elegance with advancing years. Natural stone can also be cleaned easily and cheaply. Even centuries-old floor coverings of natural stone can be ground and restored to their original condition. The lifetime of natural stone is extremely long. With the right planning and construction, buildings of natural stone have been known to survive for thousands of years.

Natural stone is three-dimensional. Solid components, like moldings, frames and pillars, permit an aesthetic structure.

Natural stone is attractively priced. The relatively high investment costs are offset by the low long-term maintenance costs and long life. The cost of cleaning and maintenance of natural stone is low.

Natural stone is physically practical. Natural stone has very good thermal conductivity and a large heat storage capacity. 

Natural stone is durable. Natural stone is also the most durable material with the lowest abrasion values for floor coverings. Coverings of granite or similar hard stones show hardly any signs of wear even after decades or use.