Stone Grates - Why It's Time For You To Turn Your Back On Steel Gratings

| Tuesday, June 7, 2011
By Anne Newman


Every landscape designer or builder understands that drainages cannot exist without grates. Be it a residential, commercial, or public area, gratings play an important role in ensuring that drainage systems are highly functional. Their most important purpose is to stop foreign objects from getting into the channels and blocking the flow of water.

For many years, steel was the leading material utilised in producing grates. Either due to the absence of other options or everyone's just used to it, steel gratings became part of drainages everywhere.

While the durability of steel gratings cannot be doubted, what frustrates engineers is its lack of artistic appeal. Often available in only one kind and color, this type of grating barely does anything in beautifying a place.

A new and better alternative to steel gratings exists, today - stone grates. Although made from recyclable materials, Jonite's stone gratings have been valued for the stylishness and warmth they give a property. This kind of gratings is produced in several colors and styles. Customisation of grates to fit every client's needs is even possible with Jonite. What Jonite's stone gratings offer is creativity and sophistication without sacrificing function.

Elegant and appealing are not only the adjectives linked to stone grates. Durable is also another one. These stone gratings are reinforced to match the mechanical strength steel has. Jonite, in fact, meets the BS EN 124.1994 international standards. Hence, there is no need to be stunned to spot stone gratings where vehicular and pedestrian traffic is high.

Users of stone gratings do not even need to worry concerning the grating's color fading. With its water absorption at 0.5%, the grating's color is maintained despite being exposed in water. Likewise, unlike steel, stone gratings don't corrode.

What makes stone gratings truly amazing is that they are environmentally-friendly. It is made up of 30% recycled materials and bears the Green Label Badge. If more builders pick out stone gratings, carbon emissions can be highly lessened, too!.

Out with the old and in with the new! That's how it is with these eco-friendly stone grates. Choosing these gratings is all about choosing creativity, function, as well as the planet's preservation!




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