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Flexible Granite Panel
Granite split rather than polished. No sheen, no mirror, just the crystalline grain broken open and left rough, which is how granite looks before someone decides to polish it.
Technical data sheet, MBHGY (PDF, 0.9 MB)·Colour card, 106 surfaces in four series (PDF, 10.4 MB)
A warm beige granite with black and grey crystals, split on the face so the grain shows as a scatter of bright and dark flecks at different heights. It is the only product in the range with a truly crystalline pattern, and it reads as granite from the doorway and as a mineral map from a metre.
Five millimetres, 6.5 kg, in four sizes from 600 × 3000 for a column to 1200 × 3000 for a wall. The crystalline face is the reason for the range of sizes: on a column you want the long thin sheet so the crystals do not repeat visibly, and on a wall you want the wide one. It goes out as a granite wall panel for plinths and entrance walls, where a 30 mm slab would need a bracket and a structural note.
Crystals, at three heights
The grain in the texture shot is not a print of grain: the black crystals sit slightly proud, the feldspar sits slightly under, and the quartz catches the light at a different angle again. That is why the wall changes as you walk past it and why a photograph of it never looks quite like the wall.
Lobby, then stair
The lobby is the 1200 sheet in the beige, on a wall that gets raked by low sun in the afternoon and looks almost gold for an hour a day. The stair is the 600 × 3000 strip, cut into the stringer, in the same stone.
Installed, granite
Good for
- Entrance lobbies and stairs
- Exterior walls on a drained frame, where split granite is normal
- Columns, in the 600 strip
- Walls that will be touched, because the split face does not show fingerprints
Not for
- Kitchen worktops; this is a wall product
- Anywhere a polished look is wanted
- Small rooms, where the crystals read as noise
Granite that bends
The bend shot is the 5 mm sheet on a 400 mm radius, which no 20 mm granite will do and no 20 mm granite needs to.
Bent by hand, no heat
Beige, grey, black
Three: the warm beige in the shot, a cool grey, and a black granite with white flecks. The black is the one that looks most like polished stone from a distance and most like a mineral from close, which is a strange trick and a useful one.
Specification
Everything below applies to the Granite 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 | 1200 × 600, 600 × 3000, 1150 × 3000 and 1200 × 3000 mm |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 5 mm ± 0.5 mm |
| Weight | 6.5 kg/m² ± 0.5 |
| Item code | MBHGY |
| 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
Is it heavy?
6.5 kg a square metre. A 20 mm granite slab is around 55, plus the substrate and the fixings to hold it.
Can it be used outdoors?
Yes, on a drained or ventilated wall. Split granite is an exterior material by tradition.
Does the face stain?
The split face is porous in the way real granite is. Seal it if it is going somewhere oily; otherwise leave it.
Is the pattern repeat obvious?
At 1200 it repeats, but the crystals are small and the eye does not find it the way it finds a printed vein.
Sample of Granite
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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