Textured

A WEATHERED APPEAL IN 18 NATURAL COLOURS

Textured Architectural Masonry at Mersey Retail Park, York University, Oxford University Cricket Club (l to r)

Textured masonry adds a natural weathered appeal in no less than 18 colour variations and has been setting the standards of aesthetic quality and dimensional accuracy for over five decades.

Within the Textured range there is also the ability to manufacture two alternative face options:

Recent developments have also meant the addition of two new colours to the range, Steel Grey and Limestone. Limestone was originally a special colour produced for Welbeck College at Loughborough and has now been incorporated into the range.

For all sales enquiries please contact our Thornley Customer Service office

Additional Information

Textured Hamstone at Harlow Shopping Centre

Forticrete's Design and Sitework guides provide a comprehensive tool to assist both the designer and end user with the information needed to create impressive buildings.

As a quick reference useful sections from these guides can be downloaded below, as an alternative to the full guides (listed on the document tab).

Mean Compressive Strength (air dry):
Solid: 17.5 N/mm²
Hollow/cellular: 10.4 N/mm²

Net Dry Density*: 2100 kg/m³
*For Gross Dry Densities, please refer to Table 3
in the Forticrete Masonry Design Guide

Manufacturing Tolerance:
D1 (+2,-2mm in all directions)

Category: I

Thermal Properties
as CIBSE Guide A table 3.1:
Protected: 1.46 W/mK
Exposed: 1.56 W/mK

Durability:
see table 12: BS 5628-3:2005

Water Absorption:
<75 g/m²/s0.5

Moisture Movement:
0.45mm/m

Water Vapour Permeability:
(tabulated from EN 1745): 5/15µ

Reaction to Fire:
Euroclass A1

Shear Bond Strength:
(tabulated from EN 998-2:2003 Annex C)
0.15 N/mm²

Configuration to BS EN 1996-1-1
Solid: Group 1
Hollow/Cellular: Group 2

Air Leakeage:
Solid: <5m³/hr/m²
Hollow/Cellular <7.5m³/hr/m²

Textured masonry is manufactured from a carefully controlled mixture of aggregates and cement in accordance with BS EN 771-3:2003 'Specification for masonry units' and meets the statutory requirements of the relevant sections of The Building Regulations 2000 and The Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (amended 2001).

Download Textured Specification

textured sizes

For Textured units, the darker tint areas on the illustrations indicate faces which are Textured as standard. Additional requirements for Texturing should be indicated on the architects drawing. The additional finishing process ensures that factory cut faces have an appearance complementary to the other finished faces.

Other special shapes are available to order - click here to see the full range.

textured colours (with new)

The reproduction of colour is as close as possible within the photographic processess. To obtain samples either call our Thornley  office or complete the online form.

Related Documents
Related Documents
[icon] - Adobe PDF Texture and Fairface Brochure (858 KB) Click here to download
[icon] - Adobe PDF Size & Weights brochure (1471 KB) Click here to download
[icon] - Adobe PDF Case Study - Royal Skandia - Isle of Man - Textured (68 KB) Click here to download
[icon] - Adobe PDF Textured NBS (87 KB) Click here to download
[icon] - Adobe PDF Masonry Design Guide (1615 KB) Click here to download
[icon] - Adobe PDF Masonry Sitework Guide (1085 KB) Click here to download
[icon] - Adobe PDF COSHH Data Sheet - Masonry - Aug 2007 (43 KB) Click here to download
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