Marbull/Stone Library/Salt & Pepper Granite
Salt & Pepper Granite · Flamed
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Granite · Grey & Silver

Salt & Pepper Granite

Speckled grey granite. Unglamorous, unkillable, and correct for anything a truck drives on.

Material cost
$10.00–$19.00 /sf
Heat underfoot
Moderate
Origin
Espírito Santo, Brazil
Hardness
6–7 Mohs
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About Salt & Pepper Granite

Salt-and-pepper granite is the plain workhorse of exterior stone: a speckled grey-and-black field with no drama at all and mechanical properties that shrug off everything.

It is the standard for step treads, curbing, driveway aprons, and any place a vehicle wheel or a snow shovel will land. A thermal (flamed) finish gives it a rough, permanently non-slip face that lasts as long as the stone.

Nobody chooses it for beauty. People choose it because in twenty years it will look exactly as it does now, which around an entry or a drive is its own kind of good design.

Living with it.

Heat underfoot
Warm in direct sun but not punishing. Fine on a patio; think twice at a pool.
Wet traction
Flamed / thermal is excellent, including on slopes and stairs. Polished granite is slick wet.
Maintenance
Effectively none. Optional oil-resistant sealer on driveways.
Water absorption
<0.5% — dense, resists staining well.
Finishes
FlamedHonedPolishedThermal
Common sizes
12x2424x24Step TreadsCurbingCobble

Where it belongs.

Each of these opens the library filtered to everything suitable for that use, so you can see what Salt & Pepper Granite is competing against.

Pairs well with.

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