Travertine Floors - the interesting history
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I didn't wake up today thinking, "Gee, I wonder what travertine is all about." Instead I found that at an open house, I was explaining the difference between the floors, (travertine), vs. the kitchen counter tops, (granite). By chance, I came home to find a Discovery Channel show called, "How it's made." This show educated me in about 3 minutes the steps involved in harvesting and polishing granite. It involves dynamite, huge saws, a bunch of fire, and water to keep all the machinery cool.
This granite quarry site has
a really cool set of videos at a granite quarry
Enter my research into travertine. In Real Estate it helps to know all the minutiae behind residential home construction materials. Did you know that huge deposits of travertine came from Tivoli, Italy? Did you know that to produce rough, non-slip flooring surfaces, they heat the rock until crystals inside explode? That's what transforms the surface of granite into having a rough texture.
The Roman Coloessum was built of Travertine.
So is a good portion of The Getty Museum, in Los Angeles
Now your assignment is to become an expert on a select set of home construction materials, using only the internet, and pursuing it to the most obscure of conclusions possible.
This granite quarry site has
a really cool set of videos at a granite quarry
Enter my research into travertine. In Real Estate it helps to know all the minutiae behind residential home construction materials. Did you know that huge deposits of travertine came from Tivoli, Italy? Did you know that to produce rough, non-slip flooring surfaces, they heat the rock until crystals inside explode? That's what transforms the surface of granite into having a rough texture.
The Roman Coloessum was built of Travertine.
So is a good portion of The Getty Museum, in Los Angeles
Now your assignment is to become an expert on a select set of home construction materials, using only the internet, and pursuing it to the most obscure of conclusions possible.
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