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Schist is a natural
stone that can be found and used all over the world. Layed in many different
styles and cut to many different sizes. The examples of schist on this
page have been used in France, Ireland, Devon (in the UK) and as far
as New Zealand. New zealand schist is a material thats becoming more
popular and is mainly brought up from the South lsland. It is very popular
in New Zealand, being that it is a natural material that blends in to
its environment, unlike a lot of materials it doesn't seems to date.
These images show work carried out at Pilans Road, Tauranga,
NZ. Work in these image was contracted to Ornate stone, which
Nicholas and a small team of stone masons from the Uk carried
out. This property had 160msq of schist layed.
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attention to detail is very important when laying schist to make
it look as natural as possible, one of my main objectives is to
produce a product that blends with other materials. |
This image is a chimney built at Linley Park Omokoroa NZ. This
picture shows a side section , showing the blend of two different
types of schist, layed with 7mm joints. |
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In this example of schist it has been layed dry, built by Ornate
Stone whilst working in the Bay of Plenty in New zealand,
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The stone arch was based on a piece of work built for the
chelsea flower show in the UK
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Schist has been lyedid using the larger area to give the look
of a cobbled path.
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This image shows a cross section of one of the
piers. |
Schist layed in a colored cement mortar, with
a 7mm joint, the mortar is raked back to enhance the varieties
of the schist.
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This shows a corner section of schist built
from stone taken from Queens Town NZ.
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This image shows a sample of work where once again two different
kinds of stone have been worked with together at a mix of 30
to 70.
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This image shows the same schist as above but with the sun
light across it.
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The image above shows work done by Vaughan Palmer on a new
house in Waihi beach front in NZ. They are large piers to enhance
the entrance of the property, built from schist brought up from
Otago in the South Island.
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Each pier is approx. 18sqm of schist, which is approximately
4 ton of schist. You can contact vaughan on 0275440902
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This Image shows a new fire place that was built at the property
above, the fireplace is built from stone from Otago, and ia awaiting
the fire to be fitted along with the plasma screen TV. |
This Image shows Nicholas on left & Vaughan on the right
after the work was completed by ourselves at Waihi, NZ. |
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Image showing fireplace fitted with new fireplace
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These are a mixture of stone work
in the UK and New Zealand |
