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Outdoor stone floors - Porfido e costruzioni

Porphyry from Trentino: elegant, and available in a wide range of colour shades. Thanks to its excellent versatility, porphyry offers exceptional performance even in the most complex architectural works. This unique type of #porphyry is the ideal choice both for indoor and outdoor flooring and stands the test of time thanks to its innate style.

TRADE NAME PORFIDO DELGORSA
PETROGRAPHIC NAME RHYOLITE

AESTHETIC FEATURES

TYPICAL COLOUR grey, brown
CHROMATIC APPEARANCE homogeneous, medium bright
STRUCTURE AND GRAIN medium-grained porphyritic structure with evident quartz phenocrysts
EXTRACTION slabs
SURFACE natural surface
POSSIBLE PROCESSING Surface: natural, semi-gloss
Sides: split, sawn, flamed, smooth, glossy

PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

It has excellent technical characteristics not subject to alterations, a high degree of compactness with excellent resistance to mechanical stress and impact, low freezing and high resistance to slipping.

PROPERTIES REFERENCE STANDARD UNIT AVERAGE VALUE
Unconfined compressive strength UNI EN 1926 MPa 236
Compressive strength after freezing/thawing (48 ° C) UNI EN 12371 MPa 216
Flexural strength UNI EN 12372 MPa 23,0
Flexural strength after freezing/thawing (48 ° C) UNI EN 12371 MPa 18,4
Abrasion resistance Appendice C
UNI EN 1341
mm 14,3
Slip resistance Appendice D
UNI EN 1341
usrv 69
Water absorption at atmospheric pressure UNI EN 13755 % massa 0,7
Apparent volumetric mass UNI EN 1936 Kg/m³ 2.565

MAIN PRODUCTS AND PROCESSING

Stone is ideally suited for all applications, both outdoor and indoor, from flooring to cladding, even in cold and humid climates and in the presence of significant temperature variations

PRODUCTS PROCESSES
SLABS Surface: natural
CUBE AND TOZZETTO CUBE Surface: natural
Sides: split
TILES Surface: natural, semi-gloss
Sides: split, sawn
MADE TO MEASURE Surface: natural, semi-gloss
Sides: split, sawn, flamed