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Continues Stone Panel
Layers, running across the sheet and breaking into each other. The pattern is horizontal where most of the range is vertical, which changes the whole proportion of a room.
Technical data sheet, MBDW (PDF, 0.8 MB)·Colour card, 106 surfaces in four series (PDF, 10.4 MB)
The face is built from overlapping layers of cream stone, 20 to 50 mm thick in the pattern, each one torn along its edge and sitting a little proud of the one below. Because the layers run across, a wall reads wider and lower than the same wall in a vertical texture.
Thirteen millimetres and 10 kg. It is the same press as the other deep textures but the relief is organised horizontally, so the sheets stack: two or three courses up a wall reads as one continuous rock face, provided the joints are offset by at least a third. Ordered as a stone sheet for long walls, because the layers run on across a joint and the wall reads as one pour of stone.
Layers you can count
Count the layers in the texture shot and you get five or six across the height of the sheet, which is about the scale of a real sedimentary bed. Any more and it reads as a stack of cards; any fewer and it reads as a corrugated wall.
Living room, then suite
The living room is a chimney breast and the two returns, in cream, with the layers running level with the mantel. The hotel suite is the same sheet behind a bed, where the horizontal layers make a low room feel wider than it is.
Installed, continues stone
Good for
- Living rooms and chimney breasts
- Hotel suites and bedrooms with a low ceiling
- Walls that need to feel wider than they are
- Exterior walls, on a drained frame, where the layers shed water
Not for
- Tall narrow spaces; the layers will make them feel squat
- Anywhere the wall will be seen from below, because the layers hide the top edge
- Small bathrooms
Layers into a curve
The bend shot is at 500 mm. The layers compress on the inside of the curve and the torn edges tighten up, which reads as a fold in the rock rather than as a fault.
Bent by hand, no heat
Cream and sand
Two in stock, the cream in the shot and a sand, with a grey to order. Horizontal layers in a dark colour look like a retaining wall, so the range stays light on purpose.
Specification
Everything below applies to the Continues Stone as supplied. The PDF above is the same sheet we send out with a quote; ask for a printed copy and it travels with the sample.
| Sheet size | 1160 × 3000 mm |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 13 mm ± 1 mm |
| Weight | 10 kg/m² ± 0.5 |
| Item code | MBDW |
| Substrate | Mineral powder, sand and fibreglass, pressed in a steel mould |
| Fire | EN 13501-1 A2-s1,d0, on a non-combustible substrate |
| Fixing | Polymer adhesive, or mechanical fixings on a ventilated frame |
| MOQ | Stocked colours ship from stock, no minimum |
| Lead time | 3–5 days for stock, 20–25 days for production |
Fitting it
Four steps, and the third one is the one that goes wrong.
Questions we get asked
Can I run it vertically instead?
You can turn the sheet 90 degrees, and the layers become vertical, but the torn edges then read as flutes and you lose what makes it different.
How do you stack two courses?
Offset the joint by at least a third of the sheet length. A joint that lines up through two courses reads as a fault line.
Is it heavy?
10 kg/m². A 1160 × 3000 sheet is about 35 kg.
Does it work outside?
Yes, on a drained wall with the exterior face. The horizontal layers shed water better than the vertical textures.
Sample of Continues Stone
A4 offcut, posted from Ningbo, free. Ask for the colour card too — it covers all thirty-seven surfaces in the series.
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