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Finishing our stone slabs and flagstones
Finishing, a key element of your paving
3 elements are to be chosen / decided in your paving - flooring project. Each of these elements has an impact on the visual rendering of your room or terrace. The funnel is as follows:
(1) Stone : a single or a blend of several stones
(2) The format: custom lengths, fixed sizes, or opus
(3) The finish
The finishing of our Burgundy stone tiles and pavers is carried out in the workshop by our stonemasons, either with the help of machines or for some finishes 100% by hand. This is the case for the Old Slabs of Burgundy and the Old Rustic Slabs.
It is not always easy to find your way around the finishes. Below we will present our different finishes : Honed, Brushed, Chiselled-Bush hammered, Flamed, Antique... A finish refers to the way of working the surface of the tiles but also the edges, that is to say the sides of the tiles. This can quite radically change the spirit of paving from a relatively modern, contemporary to more rustic look.
To identify the finish of a favorite photo on our website, you will find the name of the finish as a subtitle under the images. This applies in the "Our Products" category. The other simpler option is to send us the photos you like so we can discuss them together !
Presentation of our finishes
THE GREAT CLASSICS
Honed
The honed finish is smooth with a matte rendering. This finish is only suitable for inside (too slippery outside). This finish is achieved by treating the stone with increasingly fine grains (3 to 4 discs generally) until obtaining the desired smooth rendering. The edges are straight for a modern rendering. The stones that fit particularly to this honed finish are Comblanchien, Charmot, Buffon, Chassagne...
Note : do not confuse the honed finish with the bright polished finish used a lot in the 80s and 90s. Today, this finish is recommaned for wall cladding only; indeed this finish is relatively fragile on the ground (risk of scratches and stains). We only carry it out on request in addition to existing tiles.
Brushed
The brushed finish gives an orange peel side when you touch it - it is obtained thanks to metal brushes. This finish catches the light for an aspect close to satin. A brushed finish, without further precision, implies that the edges are straight; the rendering is relatively modern (with the "cachet" of the stone). This finish can be used both indoors and outdoors (terrace, driveway, etc.). It is very pleasant to walk barefoot on this finish.
This brushed finish is the basis of our following finishes: the Monastery and Old Beaune finishes.
Monastery
This finish developed specifically by Le Comptoir des Pierres is a brushed finish on the surface of the tiles but with aged edges made by hand. Our stone cutters scratch or dehorn the stone with an irregular, random blow. These edges are made by our stonemasons with a chisel.
The limestones from Châtillon area often used with this finish, Lanvignes or Semond limestone for example.
Old Beaune
This finish has a more rustic look than the Monastery finish. Indeed, the stone is brushed but also bush hammered, which makes appear small white cavities on the surface of the tiles. The bush-hammer is a tool of stonemason, it is a hammer with 1 or 2 heads, composed of a checkerboard of diamond tips. The edges are slightly less marked than on the Monastery finish, only the hammer comes to wear them out.
The limestones from Châtillon area will sublimate this finish for a resolutely old or rustic rendering.
Antique (Aged Vibrated)
The Antique finish is made through a specific manufacturing process: our pavers or slabs are put in a kind of XXL washing machine ; which contains river pebbles. These pebbles by their movement will wear out the surface of the stone and the edges, which are slightly "rounded" that is to say aged.
Our "washing machine" allows us to be particularly competitive in price in Roman Bands format (width of 30 and 40 cm x random lengths).
Our pavers are made in Antique finish (unless other specific request of our customers). Our pavements or cabochon flooring can also be shaped by this process.
THE SPECIFICS
Honed - Pillowed edges
The basis of this finish is of course the honed appearance (matte - smooth when you touch it) but with pillowed edges made by hand. The name of this finish "pillowed" or cushion illustrates the visual rendering. This finish will be suitable only for the interior.
Flamed
The stone is literally passed to the torch, so a thermal shock will burst the grains on the surface and give this rough rendering. This process is used only on relatively hard stones. The only stone we offer in flamed finish is Comblanchien stone. This finish can be used for terraces thanks to its non-slip rendering. The flamed finish is quite rare in the world of private housing. It is generally used in roads or public development.
Finally, we carry out in our workshop other finishes adapted to the world of the building (pillars, cutlery ...), it is mainly the chiseled-bush hammered finishes, raw sawn, ginned ...
THE EXCEPTIONAL
Old Slabs of Burgundy ®
This finish is made 100% by hand in our stone cutting workshop. The exact detail of the process is kept secret but we reproduce old slabs with the same know-how as the stone-builders of the Middle Ages.
Old Rustic Slabs®
The Old Rustic Slabs® are in line with the Old Slabs of Burgundy®. On the other hand, the slabs are more marked (more worn and dug) with deliberately more random finishes between each tile. On request, we can apply a gray patina that comes to stay the cavities of these old slabs.
