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wetdec
You got it m8..............
The reason its so hard............. its not common like the lights that everyone wants so they are still working the quallity blue/red veins which make up Scabas/Scabos
As a rule the unfilled trav is higher quality and better marked than the filled as it has to hold itself together. The filled stuff can be **** and when its filled the fillers hold it. You see this with commercial trav the holes can be really big on the back.
Honed Travertine quality can be based today on the actual quality of the fillers they have in them as some of it is really bad.
Peru has some very good travs and limestone, 2 of them have been in the fofront of the uk market for around 8 years but no one knows it. As a rule if it comes from Peru or Italy its good quality stuff as they are not hammered like the turkish markets. They are not common in the uk as the producers promote in Coverings in the USA and few uk distributors go there.
This bit is interesting as fixers in the us who want an unfilled look seal the trav before they grout the lines in with a release sealer. When the grout is cleaned off and picked out it doesnt stay in the voids because they are sealed and have no grip.
Hence...........you dont seal unfilled travertine before you grout :yes:
tiler
The reason its so hard............. its not common like the lights that everyone wants so they are still working the quallity blue/red veins which make up Scabas/Scabos
As a rule the unfilled trav is higher quality and better marked than the filled as it has to hold itself together. The filled stuff can be **** and when its filled the fillers hold it. You see this with commercial trav the holes can be really big on the back.
Honed Travertine quality can be based today on the actual quality of the fillers they have in them as some of it is really bad.
Peru has some very good travs and limestone, 2 of them have been in the fofront of the uk market for around 8 years but no one knows it. As a rule if it comes from Peru or Italy its good quality stuff as they are not hammered like the turkish markets. They are not common in the uk as the producers promote in Coverings in the USA and few uk distributors go there.
This bit is interesting as fixers in the us who want an unfilled look seal the trav before they grout the lines in with a release sealer. When the grout is cleaned off and picked out it doesnt stay in the voids because they are sealed and have no grip.
Hence...........you dont seal unfilled travertine before you grout :yes:
tiler
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