Can Coffee Wood Marble be used outdoors?
Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.
The figures, and where each one comes from
| Where | What it needs |
|---|---|
| A sheltered terrace | Honed or brushed, sealed, and laid to fall |
| A wall facing the weather | Vertical fixing and a ventilated cavity behind it |
| A pool deck | Textured, sealed more often, and laid to fall |
| A path in a garden | The stone does not suit it — it is soft, it is slippery when wet, and it is expensive to lay |
Why it behaves the way it does
A marble outdoors is doing two jobs at once: it is a paving and it is a finish. Water, frost and grit together are harder on a polished surface than anything indoors, and the answer is a texture that gives the water somewhere to go.
What these figures are, and what they are not
We supply the stone and we can supply a textured finish. We do not publish an outdoor durability figure and we do not supply a paving specification for a project we have not seen.
If you are specifying this
We have not published products against this question yet. Send us the process, thickness and quantity and we will quote it against what we can actually form, rather than against a catalogue.
On a sheltered terrace or a wall facing away from the weather, yes. On an exposed paving or a pool deck, it needs a textured finish and a sealing regime, and the figure will weather sooner than it will wear out.
The figures
| Where | What it needs |
|---|---|
| A sheltered terrace | Honed or brushed, sealed, and laid to fall |
| A wall facing the weather | Vertical fixing and a ventilated cavity behind it |
| A pool deck | Textured, sealed more often, and laid to fall |
| A path in a garden | The stone does not suit it — it is soft, it is slippery when wet, and it is expensive to lay |
Why
A marble outdoors is doing two jobs at once: it is a paving and it is a finish. Water, frost and grit together are harder on a polished surface than anything indoors, and the answer is a texture that gives the water somewhere to go.
What these figures are, and what they are not
We supply the stone and we can supply a textured finish. We do not publish an outdoor durability figure and we do not supply a paving specification for a project we have not seen.