Mainly characterized by its extremely uniform background and thin grain, the Moleanos Fine is a high commercial beige limestone with a high interior usage. This preference can be explained by the given refinement and delicacy of the stone, which presents a consistent light beige colour and a smooth and plain background. As a direct variation of the Moleanos limestone, there can be some fissure and shell elements but normally, they are not that visible. Moreover, it has a significant demand on the internal market, with a particular focus on the United Kingdom, United States and several Asian markets. Despite the intensive usage on interior applications, the Moleanos Fine is a very versatile limestone, thus suitable for about anything. Discover the most popular finishings for this product, as well as each finishing recommended applications.

Honed

This is probably the most standard finishing for the Moleanos Fine. The honed type presents a very uniform and matter surface, followed by a persistent light beige colour and some visible elements, mostly fossils and small dots. It also has a relatively low porosity and a considerable hardness. Although, it is recommended for almost all types of interior and exterior applications, it’s frequently used on interior flooring and exterior cladding projects.

Main Features: Uniform background; matte surface; natural elements; persistent light beige colour.

Top Applications: Interior flooring and exterior cladding.

Polished

With a somewhat shiny surface, the polished finishing is frequently used on interior applications, including flooring, coverings, decoration and even bath designs. In terms of elements, this type makes them slightly more perceptible, since this technique highlights the natural properties of the stone. Also, the luster layer provides an increased durability with almost zero porosity. This is probably the only finishing that preserves the consistent beige colour of the Moleanos Fine.

Main Features: Shiny surface; increased durability; persistent beige colour.

Top Application: Interior flooring.

Sandblasted

The sandblasted technique is one of the most recommended finishings for exterior projects, especially for exterior cladding, exterior flooring and landscaping. During this process, the Moleanos Fine essence is basically lost, since the natural beige turns into a plain whitish colour. The surface is very uniform and plain, with a slightly rough texture and some anti-slippery properties. There are also no visible elements, as all the shells, fossils and dots disappear.

Main Features: Uniform and plain background; rough surface; non-slip properties; whitish colour.

Top Applications: Exterior cladding and interior flooring.

Scratched

After a literal scratch treatment, the Moleanos Fine surface becomes rough but very clean and uniform, with a parallel scratchy texture. In terms of colour, the natural beige is replaced by plain whitish tonalities. All the characteristic elements of the Moleamos limestone are lost with this technique. This is an ideal finishing for exterior cladding, since it produces an interesting and organized effect. Nonetheless, it can also be used on other exterior applications.

Main Features: Uniform and plain background; parallel scratchy surface; whitish colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding.

Bush-Hammered

The bush-hammered creates uniformly distributed crates of slightly different sizes. This is the most commonly used finishing for exterior applications, especially exterior cladding and wall coverings. With this procedure, the surface of the Moleanos Fine becomes extremely uniform with a rough texture and a very light whitish colour. As the previous two finishings, all the characteristic elements are nullified.

Main Features: Extremely uniform background; rough and doted surface; whitish colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding and decoration.

Split-face

Alternative finishing for mainly exterior cladding projects. The split-face presents a very rough surface made up of stratified cuts that expose the stone bedding. This procedure displays hard and softer parts of the Moleanos Fine, since the cuts are linear and irregular, yet organized in a defined structure. In terms of structure, it is quire rough, with no visible elements and a whitish colour. This finishing is ideal for mixing with other natural stones or even different finishings.

Main Features: Irregular but organized surface; rough and lined surface; whitish colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding.

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Honed surface

This type of finishing presents a plain and uniform colour and background. It makes the stone look very uniform, with a consistent grey colour, where the slight colour tone variation of the stone becomes very discreet and any possible elements will fade. This is probably the most popular surface finishing used on this limestone, being found on applications such as cladding, interior and exterior flooring, decoration and much more.

Flamed surface

The flamed surface process consists of burning the surface of the stone, giving it a slight rough appearance, but with a fairly plain and uniform colour with little variation. Again, this is a very uniform surface finishing, which adds to the fact that has a considerable anti-slippery capacity. This is a great surface finishing to be used on exterior flooring for example, but is also found on interior applications, decoration, cladding and more.

Sandblasted + brushed surface

This finishing consists on sandblasting the surface of the stone, which will make the whole surface fairly white or light coloured with a slight roughness. The brushing will then remove some of the roughness, while bringing back the natural grey colour of the limestone. The final result is a fairly plain surface, uniform. This is a very popular type of surface finishing that is today used on all sorts of interior and exterior applications.

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As a direct variation to the Moleanos limestone, this particular limestone displays most of the given elements, since both share the same structure and are extracted from the same quarries. The Moleanos Blue is fairly hard with a relatively uniform background and a light blue greyish colour. The grain can range from fine to medium and the surface can contain all sort of elements, such as fossils, shells and some lighter and darker spots. Despite being quite famous internationally, this is a natural stone whose supply doesn’t always meet the demand, due to shortage of resources. The recommended applications for the Moleanos Blue covers about everything in both interior and exterior scenarios, like cladding, flooring, stonework, masonry and wall coverings. On the other hand, each application normally requires a specific type of finishing. Learn more below.

Honed

The honed finishing produces a very uniform and consistent background, while removing the natural shine of the stone. The result is a matte surface with almost no reflection and a significant porosity. Additionally, the colours lose intensity and become lighter – a pale blue-greyish colour is the main tonality in this finishing. All the core elements of the Moleanos are quite visible and well preserved through the numerous shells, fossils and occasional shaded areas. The honed finishing is recommended for flooring applications in general, but it is also commonly found in exterior projects that include cladding and wall coverings.

Main Features: Uniform background; matte surface; natural elements; subtle blue-grey colour.

Top Applications: Interior and exterior flooring.

Polished

The general appearance of the polished finishing is very similar to the honed one, with the main difference laying on the surface’s intense shining. The polished finishing also enhances the original colour of the Moleanos Blue, where the blue and grey tonalities are greatly highlighted. All the typical Moleanos elements, like shells and fossils, are even more visible in this finishing, since the increased shining makes them more perceptible. Additionally, the limestone becomes more resistance and durable with almost no porosity. The polished type is ideal for indoor applications, including wall coverings, decoration, bath design and flooring.

Main Features: Shiny surface; increased durability; intense blue-grey colour.

Top Application: Interior flooring.

Flamed

The flamed finishing is a result of directly exposing the stone to high temperatures, which creates a rough surface. This technique generates a protective layer made of thin roughness, an endurance feature that is ideal for all types of exterior applications, such as cladding, flooring, paving and landscaping. This finishing presents a very rough and anti-slippery surface, followed by a fading natural colour in the shape of a lighter and pale blue-greyish colour. Despite of still preserving most of the Moleanos core elements, the flaming type is quite abrasive and uniform, which smooths the visibility of some elements, like shells and fossils.

Main Features: Rough and non-slip surface; increased durability; subtle blue-grey colour.

Top Application: Exterior flooring.

Sandblasted-Brushed

The technique combination of sandblasted and brushed is one of the most popular finishings for exterior flooring with Moleanos Blue, mostly because it produces a fairly rough and anti-slippery surface that increases endurance and durability.  The core elements of the Moleanos limestone are also visible across the background, specially shells and fossils. Also, the sandblasted generates very small craters that slightly highlights the natural colours of the stone. Therefore, the colour becomes slightly lighter. Finally, this finishing obtains the best results on exterior projects, with a particular focus on flooring and paving.

Main Features: Rough and non-slip surface; increased durability; highlighted blue-grey colour.

Top Application: Exterior flooring.

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With an extraordinary reputation, the Jura Grey is probably the most popular and well-known natural stone from Germany. Despite having a demand focused on Europe, this limestone is also exported to several other parts of the world. There’s currently a huge availability for this natural stone, along with large reserves for future extraction. This limestone presents a thin to medium grain, with a non-uniform background and a substantial hardness. Additionally, the Jura Grey is mostly characterized by the presence of strong signs of fossils, with a darker colour sparsely distributed throughout the surface. There are mainly four types of Jura Grey finishings, in which all of them look slightly different, especially regarding the intensity of the colour.

Honed

Among all the Jura Grey finishings, the honed technique is probably the most popular one. This happens because the honed type highlights the natural elements of the stone. Therefore, inclusions and fossils become more visible, while the grey colour becomes more intense and consistent, with some silver tonalities. On the other hand, the background is quite irregular and the surface is matte, with very little reflection. In terms of applications, exterior cladding and interior applications, like flooring or coverings, are the most frequent choices.

Main Features: Non-uniform background; matte surface; natural elements; persistent grey-silver colour.

Top Applications: Interior flooring and exterior cladding.

Polished

Used mainly on interior projects, the polished finishing creates a very shiny surface, with a lot of brightness and reflection. It also highlights the natural elements of the limestone, such as fossils and inclusions. The colour also suffers some alterations, as it becomes rather clean and enhanced, with some silver shades. The background reveals to be irregular but with a very rich composition. The most popular usages for the polished finishing is certainly interior applications, where flooring is the most common one.

Main Features: Non-uniform background; shiny surface; natural elements; clean grey-silver colour.

Top Applications: Interior flooring and interior applications in general.

Sandblasted & Brushed

This finishing combination delivers a wide range of features that are highly appreciated for different types of applications, such as a strong anti-slippery capacity, a rough matte surface and a corrugated appearance. Between all the Jura Grey finishings, the sandblasted and brushed is certainly the most utilized on exterior flooring and exterior cladding. While the sandblast makes the stone whiter and more uniform, the brushed method brings back most of the natural elements of the stone, allowing it to maintain some authenticity and discreetness.

Main Features: Uniform background; matte surface; non-slip properties; natural elements; light grey colour.

Top Application: Exterior flooring and exterior cladding.

Sandblasted

The sandblasted finishing creates a quite uniform background with a concrete looking effect, due to the sand blasting silica procedure. The result is a matte surface, with a great anti-slippery capacity and a fairly rough texture. Most of the natural characteristics and elements disappear, while the grey colour loses both, intensity and variety. Additionally, the sandblasted Jura Grey presents a quite plain and discreet look and as so, it is mostly used on exterior applications, specially on cladding and coverings.

Main Features: Very uniform background; matte surface; non-slip properties; light grey colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding.

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The Moca Cream is a very versatile beige limestone, mostly known for being the ex-libris of the Portuguese limestones. With two main variations, it can either display a rich and parallel veinage or an extremely uniform background, both with an intense beige colour and medium grain. The Moca Cream has a very high production level, since it’s currently a reference limestone for architects and interior decorators from all over the world. It also counts with an incredible demand, especially from the Chinese market, which has shown a special interest for the stone in the past few years. In terms of finishings, this is a quite versatile stone as stated above, therefore it can accept almost all techniques. However, not all of them are widely used due to market trends. Discover the four most popular Moca Cream finishings.

Honed

By persevering the natural elements of the Moca Cream, the honed finishing creates a rich yet plain and uniform background, with occasional spots, medium grain and a typical veinage, which characterizes this limestone. The honed surface is quite matte and dull, while the colouration is highly consistent through light beige tonalities. This is one of the most used finishings, in which exterior cladding is perhaps the most popular application.

Main Features: Uniform background; matte surface; natural elements; persistent light beige colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding.

Polished

With a very similar appearance to the previous finishing, the polished technique also preserves and enhances all the natural elements of the Moca Cream limestone. As a result, the grain and veins are more visible and the beige colour is intensified, turning a bit brownish sometimes. The surface is rather shiny and reflective, with a quite clear and uniform background. The polish finishing is recommended for interior applications, especially for flooring and wall coverings.

Main Features: Uniform background; shiny surface; natural elements; persistent beige colour.

Top Applications: Interior flooring and wall coverings.

Brushed

The brushed finishing creates a carved effect with a rugosity texture, where the hard parts of the stone become more visible and the softer ones become rather carved. Apart from a roughness and uniform background, it also contains great anti-slippery properties. In terms of colour, the beige becomes lighter and most of the natural elements become subtler. This finishing is recommended for all types of flooring, paving and landscaping, including pool covers.

Main Features: Uniform background; rough and carved surface; non-slip properties; light beige colour.

Top Applications: Interior flooring and decoration.

Bush-Hammered

Highly recommended for exterior applications, the bush-hammered finishing generates uniformly distributed craters across the surface of the stone, creating a very plain and uniform background. The natural elements fade away, including the vein, grain and original colour, which becomes extremely subtle, almost white. Additionally, the stone attains strong anti-slip properties and a quite rough texture. This is most commonly used on cladding projects.

Main Features: Uniform background; rough and dotted surface; non-slip properties; whitish colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding.

Split-Face

The split-face finishing is characterized by parallel cuts craved into the stone, a feature that provides a rough yet organized structure. The cuts are displayed at the exact same distance, showing the interior and exterior parts of the stone. This effect is particularly interesting and popular for all sorts of exterior cladding projects, mainly because it produces a slightly rustic appearance. This finishing features several tonalities of beige.

Main Features: Irregular but organized background; rough and lined surface; light beige colour.

Top Application: Exterior cladding.

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This beige limestone presents a light beige colour with slight greyish tonalities. In terms of grain, it can vary from thin to medium depending on the variation. It also shows dispersed brownish spots and some fossils. Overall, this is a very durable, uniform and versatile limestone, which can be used on almost all types of projects with no limitations. Thus, it is commonly used in both interior and exterior applications a bit all over the world. However, the differentiation comes with the type of finishing, since each one presents specific attributes that suit certain applications more than others. Below, we present the four most popular Moleanos Classic finishings.

Honed

With a substantial porosity and a matte surface, the honed finishing still shows all the elements of the Moleanos limestone, including the grain and shells. However, the natural shine is in the most part removed leaving a dull and very uniform surface with little to no reflection. Additionally, the original colour loses intensity, as it turns into a paler lighter beige. The honed finishing is very popular in the international market, as it can be used in about everything. Still, it is mostly recommended for both interior and exterior flooring, along with some cladding and coverings.

Main Features: Uniform background; matte surface; natural elements; subtle light beige colour.

Top Applications: Interior and exterior flooring; cladding.

Polished

The polished finishing is probably the most common type for the Moleanos limestone. This technique highlights the properties of the stone by making the surface really shiny with almost zero porosity. It makes the Moleanos grain and fossil elements quite visible and it enhances the natural colour by turning it into a very intense and bright beige. The polished finishing also improves the durability and resistance of the stone, which makes it highly recommended for many interior applications, such as flooring, wall coverings, decoration and kitchen countertops.

Main Features: Shiny surface; increased durability; intense beige colour.

Top Application: Interior flooring.

Sandblasted and Brushed

Combining the sandblasted and brushed techniques generate a slightly rough and anti-slippery surface, which is ideal for certain application types, like cladding, landscaping, paving and exterior flooring. This finishing keeps most of the elements of the Moleanos limestone through the visible grain and fossils. On the other hand, it highlights the natural beige colour, as it becomes quite intense and persistent. While the sandblast method enhances the colour, the brushed wears out of the softer part of the stone, giving it a rather aged appearance with increased durability.

Main Features: Non-slip surface; increased durability; persistent beige colour.

Top Applications: Cladding and exterior flooring.

Bush-Hammered

The bush-hammered finishing generates a non-slip rough surface. This technique is quite abrasive and it makes the Moleanos limestone lose most of its essence, including the original colour and visible fossils. As a direct result, the surface becomes very plain and uniform with a pale light beige tonality – a clear differentiation from the original limestone. Due to these singular properties, the bush-hammered finishing is typically recommended for high traffic external areas, thus its vast usage on exterior flooring, paving and landscaping.

Main Features: Uniform background; rough surface; non-slip properties; subtle light beige colour.

Top Applications: Paving and exterior flooring.

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