A private home in Ansi\u00e3o, central Portugal, using a product that doesn’t get talked about often enough: SIBQUARTZO.
SIBQUARTZO is a coloured dry shake surface hardener, made from calibrated quartz, mineral aggregates, Portland cement and chemical admixtures. It’s sprinkled onto fresh concrete at 3 to 6 kg per square metre and worked in mechanically, forming a dense anti-wear layer that becomes part of the slab rather than sitting on top of it.
The technical numbers are the reason it’s specified: 60 MPa compressive strength and 10 MPa flexural strength to EN 13892-2, A6 abrasion resistance to EN 13892-4, SH850 surface hardness, and A1fl fire reaction to ISO 1716. It also cuts dust significantly, which matters as much in a domestic garage or covered terrace as it does in a distribution centre.
Its usual home is heavy industry: car parks, loading bays, aircraft hangars, logistics centres, automotive assembly plants. But it’s rated for indoor and outdoor use and comes in a wide colour range, which is what makes projects like this one possible. Here the applicators worked it in a warm sand tone with a stamped texture and saw-cut joints, giving a hard-wearing exterior surface that sits comfortably against the existing stone walls.
Worth noting: SIBQUARTZO is a mineral product, so tonal variation across a floor is normal and expected. It’s part of the character, not a defect. Colour should always be validated against a physical sample before application.
PROJECT DETAILS:
– Location: Private home, Ansi\u00e3o, Portugal
– Product: SIBQUARTZO
– Applicator: Pent\u00e1gono Trofeu
– Coverage: 100 m\u00b2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4085,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"tags":[168,169],"cptt_reference_tags":[10,107,114],"class_list":["post-4084","cpt_reference","type-cpt_reference","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-sibquartzo","tag-dry-shake","cptt_reference_tags-residential","cptt_reference_tags-outdoor","cptt_reference_tags-floor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n