Why flooring slate is a stunning choice for your commercial premises

Is a slate floor simply for the home? The answer to that question is: most definitely not. If you have a commercial or public space that requires new flooring, such as a restaurant, cafe, bar, shop or museum, slate is more than up to the task. 

After all, consider all of the things that you require for new flooring in such a premises: it needs to be strong and durable enough to withstand the considerable foot traffic that it will undoubtedly attract, as well as easy to clean and maintain for your time-pressed staff. It also helps if the new floor for your public premises is good to look at, and flooring slate certainly ticks that box as well.

There's no flooring that looks quite like slate flooring, due to the unique way in which this fine grained metamorphic rock comes to be. Consisting mainly of chlorite, quartz, mica and calcite, slate is formed with the earth's crust's compression and heating of ocean or riverbed sediments. The outcome is an astonishingly infinite range of shades and patterns that doesn't just exude all of the fascinations of a natural material, but also a certain solidity and prestige that perfectly suits a public or commercial premises.

Plus, those who shop for flooring slate for their commercial or public premises at the Natural Slate Company have plenty of choice, which when combined with the natural variation apparent from one tile to the next, helps to ensure that their floor will be truly good looking and unique. You might be drawn to more subdued, but nonetheless deep shades like Brazilian Grey, Brazilian Black, Rustic Grey or China Black, or you may consider a brighter colour that no visitor will be able to ignore, such as Mint Fossil Sandstone, Rustic Brown, Rustic Green or Lilac. 

It's also important to consider the various available flooring patterns, which at the Natural Slate Company include Opus, Pinwheel, Brick, Farmhouse and French. You'll also need to decide whether you would prefer a more riven, textured slate or a calibrated, lightly riven tile, the latter especially popular for commercial settings due to the sleek, contemporary look of the resultant floor.

When you want a floor for your public or commercial setting that really does appeal to both the head and the heart, it's hard to look past flooring slate.

Editor’s Note: The Natural Slate Company (http://www.theslatecompany.net) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.