Natural stone, cut to size in Karachi
Six families held in slab and tile. AFINISHES manufactures the concrete tile and supplies the stone, cut to size in Karachi. We do not quarry: we buy the block, saw it, calibrate it and finish it on our own machines, which is why a slab can be cut to a drawing rather than to a stock size.
Marble
AFINISHES does not quarry marble. It buys block and slab, then saws, calibrates, finishes and edges the stone at its Karachi works to the sizes on your drawing. Which marble, slab or tile, and which of the three finishes are the decisions that follow, and they are the ones this page is about.
Granite
Granite is what you specify when marble would be the wrong answer. It is an igneous rock with a dense interlocking crystal grain, hard enough for a stair tread or a kitchen worktop, and built from silicates rather than calcium carbonate, so the acids that etch a marble leave it alone. AFINISHES supplies it in slab and tile and cuts it to size in Karachi.
Travertine
Travertine is a limestone that formed at a spring, and the gas escaping while it set left the holes that define it. Every decision on this page comes back to those pores: whether they are filled, which way the block was sawn to expose them, and what happens the first time a fill lets go. AFINISHES supplies travertine in slab and tile and cuts it to size in Karachi.
Limestone
Limestone is a calcareous sedimentary stone with a quiet even tone and little to no veining. AFINISHES manufactures concrete tile and supplies natural stone, so limestone reaches you selected, finished and cut to size in Karachi against your drawing. Specify it when a large floor should read as one continuous plane rather than as a pattern.
Basalt
Basalt is a volcanic stone: dark, dense and near non-porous, with a grain so fine and so even that a laid floor reads as one unbroken dark plane. AFINISHES manufactures concrete tile and supplies natural stone, so basalt is selected, finished and cut to size in Karachi against your drawing. Specify it where water, weather and traffic are the problem and pattern is not the point.
Sandstone
Sandstone is cemented quartz grain, warm in colour and banded by the beds it settled in. The reason to specify it is the natural cleft face: split along the bedding plane rather than sawn, so the surface you lay is the one the stone made. AFINISHES manufactures concrete tile and supplies natural stone, so sandstone is selected, split or sawn, and cut to size in Karachi, for terraces and facades.
Concrete tile from the same works
The stone is supplied and the concrete tile is manufactured, both out of one yard in Karachi. Send the formats, the finish and the site, and we will come back with sample plates and a quote.