Irishtown Sandstone Cladding Tiles

MONUMENTAL / SCULPTOR BLOCKS TO REQUIRMENTS

 CUSTOM ORDERS ON APPLICATION

- FEATURE WORK / ENTRY STATEMENTS

- CLADDING TILES

- LANDSCAPE / GARDEN WALLS

- RETAINING WALLS / SOLID VENEER

- SCULPTURE AND MONUMENTAL BLOCKS

- LINTELS / ARCHES / STEPS

- PAVING INTERIOR / EXTERIOR / POOLS

- STRUCTURAL WALLING INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR

Main applications for our products are as follows

APPLICATION  :Sandstone from Irishtown can be diamond cut / split to almost any practical size for the building and landscaping industry.

Compressive Strength (ASTM C170-87)....Minimum 70MPa -Dry...50MPa wet

Modulus of rupture 12MPa dry....7.5MPa wet

Absorption by weight (ASTM C97-83)....3.5%

Bulk Density (ASTM C97-83)....2.4/Tonnes/m3

Common Name DONNYBROOK SANDSTONE

Geological Name FELDSPATHIC SANDSTONE

An estimated 140 million years in the making. Mother natures creation of colour in this sandstone is exquisite to say the least. Our quarries produce predominantly white and gold with several variations in colour and markings from pink and yellow patterns of the Australian dusk night sky to Gold banded lines and swirls of Ancient lake beds past. Specifiers and clients find our colours warm, inviting, timeless and compatible with many styles of architecture and design. 

Many Historic buildings in Perth were built using Donnybrook sandstone. These include the West Australian Governments Parliament house, Perth CBD Commonwealth bank of Australia, Perth CBD Australias General Post office, State Libraries, museums, Commercial, residential and many more architectural buildings from in and around our beautiful state of Western Australia.

Donnybrook stone from the Irishtown Quarries have very high silica content. Our sandstone deposit is consistent in quality, has no cross bedding with an even fine grain texture. Its compressive strength and great durability place it amongst the worlds premium "freestones". This is due to its lack of carbonates as a binder with in its place a secondary silica binder.

Sandstone is durable, has a high crushing and tensile strength together with a wide range of texture and colours

A sedimentary rock usually consisting of quartz cemented with silica, iron oxide or calcium carbonate

DESCRIPTION "SANDSTONE" A cemented or otherwise compacted detrital sediment composed predominately of quartz grains, the size grains of the latter being those of sand. Mineralogical varieties such as feldspathic and glauconitic sandstones are recognised, and also argillaceous, siliceous, calcareous, ferrigineous and other varieties according to the nature of the binding or cementing of material (AGI)

            IRISHTOWN SANDSTONE TECHNICAL NOTES 2008

Natural Donnybrook sandstone direct from Irishtown Sandstone quarries and proccessing.
Avbl in 20mm x 350mm high x 600mm + /