Stone Types

Edinburgh Natural Stone offer a portfolio of quarry sandstones that are carefully prepared at our production yard in East Calder and they are suitable for for a variety of uses including: new builds, hard landscaping, restoration, conservation and interiors.

Click on the images below for their technical data.

Sandstone

Peakmoor	Wattscliffe Lilac	Beestone	Dukes	Cove Red
Scotch Buff	Copp Cragg	Blaxter	Corsehill	Catcastle Grey
Catcastle Buff	Corncockle	Stoneraise Red	Crag Stone	Mill Grit
Northumberland	Doddington Red	Lazonby Red	Witton Fell	York Stone
Dunhouse Buff	Highmoor

Matching stone can be costly and timely operation, let us make this process hassle free. We provide stone matching for restoration projects where a sample of the existing masonry is characterised in order to determine the most suitable replacement stone types.

Other enquiries concern analysis of stone for construction projects, assessment of a quarry resource and analysis of decay mechanisms. Stone masonry can be sampled from existing buildings using a small–diameter diamond core drill, allowing fresh stone to be obtained with minimal intervention.

Most investigations involve detailed petrographic descriptions of the stone in thin section using a petrological microscope.

Stone Schedule for Large Projects

Edinburgh Natural Stone provides support on obtaining sizes and ordering on projects from site, where it is important to ensure stone arriving is in the correct order allowing pallets to be placed at particular areas off the site.

Edinburgh Natural Stone supplies a full set of working drawings of the project and a schedule numbering each stone which then can be easily matched to the working drawing showing where each stone is to be installed on the project.  This process is usually on bigger projects or more intricate works.