Slate Flooring

Slate is a low-grade metamorphic rock that forms from shale under pressure at temperatures of a few hundred degrees or so. Clay minerals in the shale, which originally formed by the breakdown of mica minerals in igneous rocks, begin to revert back to mica. This makes the rock harder, so that it rings or "tinks" under the hammer, and it results in a strong cleavage—slaty cleavage—so that slate readily breaks into thin plates. Slaty cleavage doesn't always match the original sedimentary bedding planes; instead it reflects regional tectonic forces during the geologic past. Fossilsin the original rock are usually erased, but sometimes they survive in smeared or stretched form.

Slate makes excellent paving stones, long-lasting roof tiles and, of course, luxury hard wearing interior flooring. Blackboards and writing tablets were once made of slate, and the name of the rock has become the name of the tablets themselves. 
 

Slate Flooring is supplied and fitted in the larger sizes in 600x400 / 600x 300 900x900 near enough any size above this as specials. We supply two basic types- black and blue grey in either as cut-Riven finish or the more popular polished surface look. Our fitters are trained and work towards offering the customer that personal touch, in that nothing is too much trouble, in giving you the look in your home, you strive for and desire