Paving Stone

Banas Stones is proud to offer a collection of complete line of high quality natural stone pavers in seventeen attractive colours and textures, that will extend decorative surfaces for your outdoor projects. Our sandstone and limestone products add a sense of class and are best suited for the most exquisite designs for your gardens, porches, driveways, walkways, pools and other interior and exterior applications.

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. Most sandstone is comprised of quartz and/or feildspar because these are the most common minerals in earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any color, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red grey and white. Since sandstone beds often from highly visible cliffs and other topographic features, certain colors of sandstone may be strongly identified with certain regions. Some sandstones are resistant to weathering, yet are easy to work. This makes sandstone a common building and paving material. Because of the hardness of the individual grains, uniformity of grain size and somewhat friable nature, sandstone is an excellent material from which to make grindstones for sharpening blades and other implements.

Limestone is a chemical sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (Calcium Carbonate: CaCO3). Limestone often contain variable amounts of silica in the form of chert or flint as well as amounts of clay, silt and sand as disseminations, nodules or layers within the rock unit. The primary source of this calcite is most commonly marine organisms. These organisms secrete shells that settle out of the water column and are deposited on ocean floors as pelagic ooze. Secondary calcite may also be deposited by supersaturated meteoric waters (groundwater that precipitates the material in caves). This produces speleothems such as stalagmites and stalactites. Another form is ocmposed of oolites (oolitic limestone) and can be recognised by its granular appearance. Limestone makes up about 10 percent of the total volume of all sedimentary rocks.

The applications of both above stones are random and square cut flagstone, architectural stone, flooring, construction, landscaping and other exterior applications depending upon the imagination of an architect.