Our natural quartz for creating stone carpets is dyed with various color pigments and coated with high-quality synthetic resins – based on epoxy resin or polyurethane resin, depending on the area of application. There are several hundred solid colors to choose from for the production of a quartz floor, which can also be mixed with each other. Various grain sizes are available for the production of colored quartz coatings.
Contents
- Seamless coating made of colored quartz
- Advantages of quartz gravel flooring
- Colored quartz for outdoor use
- Areas of application for quartz floors
- What is a quartz floor made of?
- In which colors is Colorquarz available?
- Qubo® Painting
- In which grain sizes is colored quartz available?
- Binder for quartz floors
- How is the Qubo® quartz floor processed?
- Non-binding Cost estimate
- Link collection
- FAQ
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Stone carpets made of Colorkies for indoor and outdoor use Seamless floor coating made of colored quartz
The epoxy resin-bonded Qubo® quartz gravel floor is certified and tested in accordance with AgBB. It is approved for all living and recreation rooms. Colorkies is also regularly used in garages, carports, workshops and industrial halls. In light-flooded rooms and outdoors, such as on balconies and terraces, Qubo® Colorquartz is bound and laid with a UV-stable polyurethane resin.
Advantages of quartz gravel flooring
The ideal floor for allergy sufferers
A quartz floor is not only characterized by a high level of walking comfort, it is also ideal for allergy sufferers. Both properties are due to the surface structure in which house dust sinks instead of being bound. The dust can simply be vacuumed out of the structure. This makes quartz gravel flooring the ideal flooring for children’s rooms, guest rooms and bedrooms.
Easy cleaning and care
Of course, the quartz floor can not only be vacuumed, it can also be wet mopped. A wet vacuum cleaner is suitable for basic cleaning. In general, a quartz floor is a very low-maintenance floor covering. The use of a pore sealant and – depending on the intended use – an additional sealant ensure a particularly hygienic surface indoors.
Why colored quartz gravel can be used on outdoor surfaces without any problemsColor quartz for outdoor use
Many customers ask whether the wide range of gravel colors can also be used to design outdoor surfaces. The simple answer is: Yes! Special binders are used in outdoor areas to protect the quartz flooring from yellowing and fading (more on this in the section Binders ). In addition, the quartz gravel itself is provided with its own PU layer for outdoor use. This encloses the already colored pebbles and protects the colors in addition to the binder. This means that Colorquarz can also be used without restriction on terraces, in gardens, in entrances and on balconies.
Colorquartz can be used in these places Applications for quartz floors
As a quartz gravel floor can be used indoors and as an outdoor coating, there is an enormous range of applications. Quartz floors are very popular for outdoor use on patios and balconies. There are many reasons for this. The gravel structure prevents the formation of puddles and the growth of moss.
Other possibilities in outdoor areas are as a coating for house entrances, as pool surrounds and in the pool itself. Colorquartz is also popular in outdoor catering for its variety of colors, slip resistance and stability. Since floors made of colored quartz are UV-stable, frost-proof and water-permeable in outdoor areas, a quartz floor shows its best side all year round.
Indoors, quartz flooring is ideal for all living spaces. In living rooms, offices, party basements and conservatories, colored quartz allows for the individual design of floors, skirting boards and walls. Especially in bedrooms – including guest rooms and children’s rooms – quartz flooring with its stone structure is ideal for house dust allergy sufferers.
Stairs can be easily integrated into the design concept of the home with a quartz gravel coating.
The textured surface of the quartz flooring is ideal for pets as it prevents them from slipping on the floor. At the same time, the quartz gravel is so robust that the claws of dogs and cats do not leave any scratches.
In kitchens, bathrooms and in fitness and wellness areas, quartz floors with a porous seal are extremely easy to clean and insensitive to water, so spilled drinking glasses and moisture near the washbasin are not a problem.
Rain-soaked vehicles can be parked without hesitation in a garage with quartz flooring. Of course, commercial kitchens, the catering industry and food production companies such as butchers also benefit from the use of a quartz floor with a porous seal.
In general, Colorquarz offers the ideal opportunity to visually adapt stores such as bakeries, opticians, pharmacies and doctors’ surgeries to the corporate design in a commercial environment. Qubo® Painting motifs and logos attract attention in tattoo studios, massage practices and discotheques, but also in car dealerships and garages as soon as you enter. This way, customers will remember your store.
The many colors and different types of dyeing allow the detailed design of different business areas and exhibition spaces as well as the demarcation of walkways and seating areas in restaurants and pubs.
The enormous durability of the quartz floor, even when subjected to heavy use by a high volume of customers, makes it a worthwhile investment.
The many possible areas of application for quartz flooring can hardly be described in a single article. Many more ideas can be found in the corresponding chapter of our article
Stone carpet for indoor use
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references. An extensive collection of applications for Qubo® Painting can be found in the article of our interesting
Stone carpet logo for ordering and laying at sz art of airbrush.
What is colored quartz and how is it prepared for flooring installation? what is a quartz floor made of?
A quartz floor consists of millions of small pebbles that are carefully selected, sieved, washed and fire-dried. They are therefore clean and dust-free.
The gravel is colored at high temperature and coated with a specially developed coating for flooring. This special process ensures color and wear resistance. As a result, the gravel colors remain permanently attractive.
From natural to metallic - these color quartz shades are available In which colors is color quartz available?
Qubo® quartz gravel is available in many hundreds of different colors. The colors are divided into different groups. Each of these groups is characterized by special optical properties.
Natural quartz
On the one hand, there is natural quartz, which, as the name suggests, occurs uncolored in completely natural stone colors. The gravel grain size makes a clear difference to the visual impression here: gravel in the typical grain size of 2-3 mm usually contains a lot of beige and white with some darker pebbles. Finer gravel is visually more reminiscent of sand.
Colored quartz
In the case of colored quartz gravel – colored quartz – a distinction is made between single and multi-colored gravel as well as special coloring processes such as metallic and pearlescent.
The single-colored gravels still allow the natural differences between the quartz pebbles to shine through slightly, giving the laid floor a varied texture. Especially with softer colors, these subtle differences create a pleasant overall look.
Double-colored colored quartz
Double-colored quartz pebbles are used when colors should be particularly bright and when, for example, a strong, deep black is desired. The double layer of color causes the natural differences between the pebbles to fade into the background, creating a homogeneous surface in the desired color.
Colored quartz with metallic effect
The specially coated metallic quartz gravel is very popular in modern design environments. Strong colors with a metallic sheen allow quartz floors to shine in timeless black and silver-grey, but also in accent colors such as dark green, wine red and turquoise. This allows for interesting combinations of treads and risers in various metallic colors or skirting boards in shades that match the floor.
Colored quartz with pearlescent effect
Quartz pebbles in pearlescent colors are characterized by a soft, mother-of-pearl-like shimmer that gives quartz floors a sophisticated and modern look. The natural differences in the quartz pebbles are still slightly evident here and, together with the gloss effect, create an enormously interesting overall picture. Here, too, there are many different colors to choose from, from set beige and grey tones to strong light blue and grass green. This makes pearlescent quartz gravel the perfect solution for anyone for whom metallic colors are too expressive, but for whom simple gravel lacks that certain something.
Fluorescent colored quartz
The fluorescent shades are a very special variant of quartz gravel. These specially coated granules look like typical quartz floors under normal lighting, but light up under black light. Motifs and decorative elements laid with this gravel on floors and walls are an absolute highlight in clubs, discotheques or party rooms.
Customized logos and motifs on quartz gravelQubo® Painting
The enormous choice of colours is by no means the only way to individualize the quartz floor. The design options are even more extensive with the use of Qubo® Painting. These are airbrush works of art that are created directly on the quartz gravel and can be seamlessly integrated into the gravel floor.
The surface structure makes it possible to design motifs entirely according to your own wishes. From small, monochrome logos and lettering to large motifs with color gradients, spatial effects and plays of light and shadow, there are virtually no limits to creativity.
The works of art are created on quartz gravel in the manufactory of sz art of airbrush. The method of production is another major advantage of Qubo® Painting: instead of spraying the motifs onto the finished quartz floor on site, the work is created before construction begins. It is designed, brushed and sealed in the studio. The sealing is responsible for the high abrasion resistance of the floor motifs. The finished Qubo® Painting is then sent securely packaged to the installer or directly to the construction project, where it is laid together with the floor. This allows the quartz gravel flooring to be worked seamlessly onto the artwork.
This approach combines several advantages: customized designs without visible material transitions and without extending the construction time! For this reason, Qubo® Paintings are increasingly being used in the commercial sector. Companies benefit from the “wow” effect that company logos and lettering have on customers and visitors. As a result, business premises, products and corporate branding are generally remembered.
What are the different gravel grain sizes used for? which grain sizes are available in Colorquartz?
Colored quartz for creating stone carpets is offered in finer gradations than is the case with marble gravel, for example. The most frequently chosen variant is quartz gravel with a grain size of 2-3 millimeters. It is suitable for almost all indoor and outdoor applications and enables laying thicknesses of just 6 millimetres on indoor floors.
Depending on the intended use, it is advisable or necessary to use different grain sizes to give the quartz gravel floor certain properties. In garages, for example, color quartz with 1-2 mm and 2-3 mm are mixed together. This creates a denser stone carpet with increased stability, which can easily withstand the load of a heavily used garage.
Fine mortar gravel with a grain size of less than one millimetre is also available in many colored quartz colors and is used, for example, in industrial halls and warehouses where heavy-duty shelving is installed. The fine grain is also used to create access ramps at entrances to garages and halls.
Larger gravel sizes such as 3-4 mm or 4-6 mm are used less frequently and are particularly interesting if there is a specific reason for their use. An example of this is a balcony, where the coarse grain is mainly walked on barefoot and thus provides a pleasant walking sensation. It is also conceivable to combine a driveway with Qubo®Tec and a patio with coarse-grained Colorquarz, so that both surfaces are given an individual color, but the similar grain size creates a uniform overall impression of the gravel coatings.
Different areas of application require different binding agents Binding agents for quartz floors
The quartz gravel already makes up over 90% of the quartz floor. It gives the flooring system its exceptional strength and attractive appearance. The remaining part is the binder, which is responsible for the lasting cohesion of the gravel structure.
A good binder is also stable and transparent for decades. It is therefore important to rely on high-quality products such as the binders from Qubo®. The right components are offered here depending on the area of application.
Epoxy resin
The standard among binders is epoxy resin, also known as EP. This two-component system is used for quartz gravel floors and for coating stairs indoors. The Qubo® EP02 epoxy resin is not only characterized by its ease of application and high transparency, it is also AgBB-certified and therefore approved for use in living spaces.
Epoxy resin is not used outdoors due to the high levels of UV radiation that affect outdoor surfaces such as terraces and balconies. While sunlight has no influence on the durability itself, epoxy resin can yellow after a few years in the sunshine. Depending on the color used, this can be unproblematic, but it can also be annoying. This is why a UV-resistant binder is used for outdoor applications: Polyurethane resin!
Polyurethane resin
Polyurethane, or PU for short, has one or two components depending on the version and is used wherever increased amounts of UV radiation affect the floor. Although window panes already filter most of the rays from daylight, the use of PU resin is still recommended in rooms flooded with light, such as conservatories. The use of polyurethane resin also applies to the entire outdoor area. With the UV-resistant Qubo® PU08, the quartz gravel floor remains attractive in the long term.
Special binders for coating vertical surfaces
The single-component Qubo® PU08 is also the basis for a wall coating that can be used to create skirting boards, risers and complete wall coatings from quartz gravel. This gives Qubo® PU-WA08 a considerable advantage over epoxy resin, where the wall coating system consists of three components. The mixing of Colorquarz and wall coating thus only involves one work step during mixing. Due to its ease of application on vertical surfaces, Qubo® PU-WA08 is used both indoors and outdoors.
How is the Qubo® quartz floor processed?
Laying quartz flooring - this is how it works
The colored gravel floor can be laid quickly and also in combination with
underfloor heating. The quartz gravel is mixed with a suitable binder and applied to the primed substrate using a trowel.
The detailed processing steps required are explained in the informative article Laying stone carpet in 6 steps.
What substrate do quartz floors need?
Quartz floors can be laid on almost any substrate, such as screed , concrete, tiles, etc. In combination with a fabric mat, quartz floors can also be laid on wooden subfloors.
How high is the build-up height for a colored quartz coating?
The thickness of the coating depends on the selected grain size of the colored quartz. With a grain size of 2-3 mm, the installation thickness is 6 mm. If a grain size of 3-4 mm is used, the thickness is 8 mm.
Are baseboards also made from colored quartz?
After the quartz floor has been laid, the skirting boards are usually also made from the same material on site. The advantage of these colored quartz skirting boards is that they are perfectly matched to the look of the floor and the wall. The result is a harmonious and appealing overall look. And that is guaranteed to …
… for a strong appearance!
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Die Aufbauhöhe richtet sich nach der ausgesuchten Korngröße. Die Verlegestärke beträgt 6 mm bei einer Körnung von 2 – 4 mm und 10 mm bei einer Körnung von 4 – 8 mm.
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Ob in der gleichen Farbe oder als Kontrast – die idealen Fußleisten werden direkt vor Ort aus Quarzkies erstellt. Diese sorgen für einen gleichmäßigen, eleganten Look und lassen sich architektonisch und stilistisch perfekt an die Gegebenheiten anpassen.
Neben dem ungefärbten Naturquarz gibt es Quarzkies auch in verschiedenen Färbungen. Dabei können die Quarzkiese in den Varianten einfach gefärbt, doppelt gefärbt oder metallic bestellt werden.
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Zusätzlich macht die strukturierte Oberfläche den Fußboden antiallergen. Das bedeutet, dass der feine Hausstaub sich in die einzelnen Poren setzt, dadurch nicht gebunden wird und sich einfach heraussaugen lässt. Deshalb ist dieser Boden prädestiniert für Hausstauballergiker und damit auch ideal geeignet für die Verlegung im Schlafzimmer. Natürlich kann er auch nass gewischt werden. Zur Grundreinigung eignet sich ein Nasssauggerät.
Für eine hygienische Oberfläche sorgt die Versiegelung mit einem Porenverschluss. Außerdem ist der Quarzboden sehr fußwarm. Dieser Effekt entsteht durch die isolierende Wirkung der vielen kleinen Luftkammern im Bodensystem.
Seine hohe Rutschsicherheit kommt besonders unseren vierbeinigen Lieblingen zu Gute. Die Tiere fühlen sich auf dem Qubo® besonders wohl. Quarzkiesböden eignen sich praktisch für alle Räume.
Wegen seiner schallabsorbierenden Wirkung wird der Qubo® bevorzugt in Seminar- und Konferenzräumen, Kinos, Ausstellungen, Museen, Kitas, Schulen, Jugend- und Gemeindezentren eingesetzt. Der Kontaktschall wird beim Quarzkiesboden um 4db gedämpft. Um die Schalldämpfung auf 10 db zu erhöhen, kann eine schalldämpfende Schicht eingearbeitet werden.
Vom ausgebauten Dachboden bis in den Keller und die Garage. Qubo® Quarzkiesböden sind Allrounder für den Indoor- und Outdoorbereich, privat und gewerblich. Innen verlegt eignet er sich für den gesamten Wohnbereich wie Esszimmer, Wohnzimmer, Wintergarten, Küche, Kinder-, Gäste- und Schlafzimmer, Hauswirtschaftsraum und Büro. Im Badezimmer und WC ersetzt die fugenlose, moderne Oberflächenbeschichtung die herkömmliche Fliese. Quarzkiesböden eignen sich weiter für Saunen, Fitness- und Wellnessbereiche, Schwimmbäder und für Poolumrandungen im Außenbereich.
Auch Außentreppen, Balkone und Terrassen werden mit Quarzen belegt. Aufgrund seiner Schmutzunempfindlichkeit wird der Quarzboden häufig in Eingangsbereichen, wie Fluren und auf Treppen verlegt. Ein besonderer Blickfang bietet ein Logo im Foyer.
Durch seine hohe Belastbarkeit wird der Quarzboden in Fabrikgebäuden, Industrie- und Lagerhallen eingebracht, die mit Gabelstapler befahren und mit Schwerlastregalen ausgestatten werden. Dank seines besonderen Aufbaus und seiner Versiegelung wird der Qubo® Quarzkiesboden zu einem öl- und benzinfesten Bodenbelag für Garagen und Werkstätten.
Zur leichten Entfernung des Qubo® kann eine Trennlage eingearbeitet werden.
Für industrielle Zwecke muss ein Fußboden auch über Jahrzehnte haltbar und strapazierfähig bleiben. Außerdem muss die Oberfläche resistent gegen diverse Flüssigkeiten und Chemikalien sein.
Diese Voraussetzungen erfüllt unser Qubo® Quarzkiesboden mit Bravur. Zusätzlich passen wir ihren Quarzkiesboden an ihr Corporate Design an und verleihen ihm ein Branding mit ihrem Firmenlogo.
Alle Qubo® Steinteppich-Systeme weisen eine Rutschsicherheit der Klasse R10 auf. Mit einer speziellen Versiegelung kann die Rutschhemmklasse auf R13 erhöht werden.
Ein ganz wichtiges Thema bei der Erstellung dieser Oberböden sind die verwendeten Bindemittel, welche aus Naturharzen und einer Härterkomponente bestehen. Das Qubo® Epoxidharz ist lösemittelfrei und nach den Vorgaben des Ausschuss zur gesundheitlichen Bewertung von Bauprodukten (AgBB) geprüft und zugelassen. Aufgabe des AgBB ist es, die Emissionen flüchtiger organischer Verbindungen in Bauprodukten zu analysieren. In Deutschland dürfen nur noch Produkte in Innenräume verarbeitet werden, die den AgBB-Vorgaben entsprechen.
Die Standardgrößen der Kieskörnung sind 1 – 2 mm, 2 – 3 mm und 3 – 4 mm.
Je nach Ausführung der Treppe dauert die Sanierung 3-5 Tage.
Durch den Aufbau und die dünne Schichtstärke eignet sich ein Quarzkiesboden hervorragend für Fußbodenheizungen.
Die nur wenige Millimeter dicke Quarzkiesschicht erwärmt sich schneller als etwa ein deutlich dickerer Fliesenboden. Gleichzeitig sorgt die körnige Struktur des Quarzkiesbodens für eine erheblich größere Oberfläche als bei glatten Bodenbelägen. Über diese kann die Wärme schneller an die Raumluft abgegeben werden.
Aufgrund seiner Schmutzunempfindlichkeit eignet er sich sehr gut für die Treppenverlegung. Das bezieht sich auch auf Flure, Foyers und Eingangsbereiche.
Die ursprüngliche Rutschhemmklasse eines Quarzkiesbodens beträgt R10. Mit einem speziellen Siegel lässt sich jede beliebige Rutschhemmklasse einstellen.
Man kann den Quarzkiesboden einfach trocken saugen, nass wischen oder ein Nasssauggerät verwenden.
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