NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or travertine

[jerksy]

Londoner searching for large size cream limestone, travertine and or marble tiles.

I was in Egypt recently and I was really amazed at the quality of workmanship and tiles on displayy in pyramids and temples.

I plan on installing the tiles in the bathroom floor/walls, kitchen floors and extension floor. I would like to buy the strongest and hardwearing product.

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Dont buy Turkish Limestone then! If you buy Turkish Travertine be careful of quality - how many metres? If you need a lot 400m - 600m I have good contacts in Turkey and Spain if 2cm thick about 400sq.m to a container if 12mm thick then about 600/660 sq.m a container. You'll get best price plus if you wanted say stair treads or skirtings or window cills could be machined out there and crated and sent with your order - you will get about 1/2 to 2/3 best UK price - but obviously need somewhere to put 20 Crates of Stone

Lesser amounts you need a ball park metreage ( dont load it though- if you agree a price on a quantity - and then order less price will go up!!)

I have supplied Containers of Marble/Trav/Limestone to French Connection, Sandy Lane, Cape Town, France and several UK distributors

 

[Turkish tiler]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Dont buy Turkish Limestone then! If you buy Turkish Travertine be careful of quality - how many metres? If you need a lot 400m - 600m I have good contacts in Turkey and Spain if 2cm thick about 400sq.m to a container if 12mm thick then about 600/660 sq.m a container. You'll get best price plus if you wanted say stair treads or skirtings or window cills could me machined out there and crated and sent with your order - you will get about 1/2 to 2/3 best UK price - but obviously need somewhere to put 20 Crates of Stone

Lesser amounts you need a ball park metreage ( dont load it though- if you agree a price on a quantity - and then order less price will go up!!)

I have supplied Containers of Marble/Trav/Limestone to French Connection, Sandy Lane, Cape Town, France and several UK distributors

it depends how much you pay for when you get stones from turkey don't write off turkish stone so easy some of the stuff they sell in shop in uk so called stones do would not even throw them to stray cats in turkey plus well known fact italians been buying millions of tons turkish stone and cut it slice it and sell it as italian stone

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

I have travelled around Turkey quite a few times, and the pale limestones they have are not very hardy, you wouldnt want to be putting 150sq. m of Applestone on floor it would be knackered in a few years. The nicest Travertines are Denizli Beige, and you can get a good pale cream from Afyon, but that is where you need to take care - the other pale cream you can get is rubbish flip it over and its like Ginger biscuit. Putty coloured dense travertine from Mugla region is good quality but few people like the beige/greying colour. I started going to Turkey when I realised that TRV in Italy where supplying me Turkish. Crema Marfil lovely pale cream Marble from Spain worth a look - Good thing about Spain you can ship as little as 3 pallets quite economically. I started buying out Spain/Italy/Turkey before it became popular here.

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

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This was one of the Largest Cream marble quarries in the world. Not far from Alicante - when I bought from Spain - The Marble Association paid for my flight/hotel and stay whilst I was there. I dont know how much detail on the photo will remain but the specs at the bottom of the Mountain are 20ton blocks

 

[Turkish tiler]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

probably you have been few different cities or places in turkey I can count at least 20 different cities, 200 different town and 2000 different villages dig out all different colour and different stones in turkey.
perhaps you have visted some historical places too and you have seen old marbles, lime stones, granits, vs stil standing they all been digged out from turkey

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

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From 1 - 5 Turkish Travertines in order 1. Afyon 2. Cream (cheap one wont say from where dont want suing) 3. Karaman 4. Pale Denizli 5. Mut Travertine

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

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Crema Marfil 1. Classico - generally quite veined 2.Standard - little veining with matching skirting (honed finish) 3. Look at French Connection floors for Select - very even hardly any vein

 

[Turkish tiler]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

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From 1 - 5 Turkish Travertines in order 1. Afyon 2. Cream (cheap one wont say from where dont want suing) 3. Karaman 4. Pale Denizli 5. Mut Travertine

can,t see pictures

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Turkey is a fantastic resource for stone - I have a chart with all the colours if I can find it Ill let you know. But whether you buy Turkey/Italy/Spain you need to know the quality of the stone you are buying, and ideally have someone there for the packing prior to the shipping. Factories always, always but the best pieces to the outside. If you buy on colour alone you will get stuffed

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Turkey is a fantastic resource for stone - I have a chart with all the colours if I can find it Ill let you know. But whether you buy Turkey/Italy/Spain you need to know the quality of the stone you are buying, and ideally have someone there for the packing prior to the shipping. Factories always, always but the best pieces to the outside. If you buy on colour alone you will get stuffed The stock yards are full of rubbish that the Americans and Germans dont want and guess which little island buys it and sells it on Ebay for £12 - £18 a square metre. Which is why you hear people say "I'm not having travertine again it was rubbish (well yes yours was)"

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

can you see them now?

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Sogut, Antalya, Izmir, Denizli, Karaman, Mugla, Istanbul, Konya off the top of my head. The poverty is quite striking in Turkey - they want to join EU, but the standards of housing, minimum wage etc. are terrible. Of course you visit the Tourist areas and you dont really see it. I will never forget the boss of one factory asking a man to get a sample for me - and tramps in Leeds have better shoes. It makes you feel a bit 'dirty' when you are screwing them down on price.

 

[Stonebro2]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Sorry North Londoner went a bit off topic there, but hopefully you understand the need for a bit of knowledge in this game - let me know if I can be of help

 

[Turkish tiler]

Re: NortLondoner searching for 600x600+ size cream limestone or traver

Sogut, Antalya, Izmir, Denizli, Karaman, Mugla, Istanbul, Konya off the top of my head. The poverty is quite striking in Turkey - they want to join EU, but the standards of housing, minimum wage etc. are terrible. Of course you visit the Tourist areas and you dont really see it. I will never forget the boss of one factory asking a man to get a sample for me - and tramps in Leeds have better shoes. It makes you feel a bit 'dirty' when you are screwing them down on price.

I thought we were talking about stones not economics