Durango Stone Mexican Travertine

Olde World Filled and Honed Production

 Honed and Filled

The Filled and Old World Honed™ products available from our Durango Stone Mexican travertine are unsurpassed in quality.  A great amount of detail and pride go into every individually inspected piece.

Our process consists of filling the stone, honing with 400-grit, refilling the stone and then honing again using 16 320-grit heads. This achieves a very hard, semi-sheen surface that resists the wear patterns commonly associated with travertine floors.  It also ensures the surface film that is found on a vast majority of our competitor’s material is non-existent.  The process also makes the floors much easier to clean.  Nobody wants to go through the expense of having their floors honed in place in the future.  The majority of other plants use 200 to 250-grit heads to hone their products.  These are great selling features that you can use over your competition.  

Additionally, our fill is color-matched and selected to run with the tonality of the stone, creating an aesthetically pleasing palette of color.

All Filled and Old World Honed™ products are fully gauged and calibrated.  Half sizes for patterns are nominal allowing for grout joints in “block” patterns both in finishes, ensuring the installer a fighting chance to achieve a wonderful finished installation that they can be proud of.  True sized tiles are a beautiful thing!

A 1-mm micro beveled edge is applied to the tiles to aid in ease of installation and to avoid the chipped edges so often seen in square cut tiles.

The advantage to this is three-fold: 

·        One being the forgiving nature of the edge in installation to help eliminate lippage.

·        Secondly, all sharp edges are eliminated, not only increasing the safety factor in regards to barefoot traffic, but also the running of hands across the surface.  A very important factor to consider for your clients who may have children playing or crawling across the floor.

·        The third advantage is the after installation, chipping that commonly occurs from foot traffic on a square edged stone does not occur.

Visit Kaiser Tile located in Tempe, Arizona for more information Filled and Old World Honed™ products available from our Durango Stone Mexican travertine tile collection  A great amount of detail and pride go into every individually inspected piece.

Kaiser Tile, Tempe, Arizona                                                                                Courtesy of World Wide Stone