Sparstone Rugged Texture
THE RUGGED WEATHERED APPEAL OF A RURAL VERNACULAR

Textured
Sparstone masonry has a coarse
texture with a natural appeal. Available in the broad standard
product range and in a choice of three colour variations to match
regional preferences, Sparstone enables you to successfully
replicate the 'weathered' vernacular of many rural towns and
villages throughout the UK.
Split
When Sparstone masonry is split, it
creates an imposing finish.The natural beauty of the embedded
aggregates is enhanced to give your buildings an essentially rugged
appeal, enabling them to blend into many local vernaculars with
consummate ease.
For all sales enquiries please contact our Thornley office.
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).
- Design - Modular Design
- Design - Movement Control
- Design - Fixing and Detailing
- Design - Fire Resistance
- Sitework - Cleaning Procedures
- Sitework - Site Preparation
Mean Compressive Strength (Air Dry):
Solid 17.5 N/mm²
Hollow/cellular: 10.4 N/mm²
Net Dry Density: 2100 kg/m³
Gross Dry Density:
Textured: Please refer
to Table 3 in the Forticrete Masonry Design
Guide
Split: 2090 kg/m³
Manufacturing Tolernace:
D1
Textured: +2,-2mm in all directions
Split: length +2,-2mm
height +2,-2mm
Category: I
Thermal Peoperties
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 Perrmeability:
abulated 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 EN 1996-1-1:
Solid: Group 1
Hollow/Cellular Group 2
Air Leakage: <7.5m³/hr/m²
Sparstone 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 Sparstone Specification
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Sparstone (944 KB) | Click here to download |
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Size & Weights brochure (1471 KB) | Click here to download |
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Sparstone NBS (88 KB) | Click here to download |
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Masonry Design Guide (1615 KB) | Click here to download |
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Masonry Sitework Guide (1085 KB) | Click here to download |
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Sparstone Specification (67 KB) | Click here to download |
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