What Travertine Floor Tile sizes are most popular in the USA?
The most popular sizes for indoor Travertine Tiles are French Pattern, 12x12, 16X16 and 18x18. Larger sizes such as 24x24 travertine tiles are also gaining popularity among American Homes. Some homeowners even use travertine tiles for pool decks in order to cut down on the material cost, since tiles are usually cheaper than pavers.
What is a Travertine Remodeling Coping? And what sizes do we offer?
Travertine Remodeling Copings can be placed on top of existing pool copings opposed to having to remove your current pool copings while remodeling your pool. Using remodeling pool copings can be more cost effective during your pool remodeling process but the drawback is that you can only remodel once. Should you decide to remodel again, obviously you'd have to remove the existing remodeling copings. In other words, you can not place a remodeling coping on top of another remodeling coping.
Remodel Copings Come In Sizes Listed Below:
*4x9x4
*12x12x4
What finish is applied to Travertine Products?
What finish is applied to Travertine Products?
Travertine products usually have the following finishes: Tumbled, Honed, Brushed, Filled, Filled & Honed, Chiseled, Bush Hammered, Polished Chiseled Travertine refers to the edges while all the other finishes refer to the actual surface. Combinations are also possible such as Chiseled & Honed, Chiseled & Brushed or Honed & Filled & Chiseled.
Premium Travertine and Marble Imported Directly from Turkey
Where Does My Travertine/Marble Come From?
Most of the Travertine found in the USA comes directly from Turkey in form of containers. There are many ocean freight services which transport this material across the Atlantic Ocean.
It takes approx. 6 weeks to arrive from Turkey. About 95% of the Travertine containers arrive at the Port of Tampa. Next, they are distributed from the port to several different warehouses and wholesalers via freight forwarders.
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Travertine is a natural stone like Marble, Granite, Onyx, Limestone, Slate etc. The key differences between Travertine and other natural stones stems from the way they are formed. The stone themselves have very different properties such as the hardness of the stone and the appearance.
Travertine is formed in hot springs and/or limestone caves. It is formed by the precipitation of calcium carbonate. In other words, a chemical soup very high in concentration of calcium carbonate precipitates off the liquid and the remaining chemical soup hardens and is compressed into the travertine stone we have today. Kind of like a natural concrete in that you have a soupy mixture that hardens.
Travertine is not the same as Marble, Granite or Limestone which falls in the metamorphic rock category. Key characteristics of Travertine stone are the holes within...