ABOUT US
In 2000, while working for the family business (Stamford Stone Co Ltd - producer's of natural building stone), it became apparent to me that a demand for natural stone flooring was growing. Unable to supply both time and machinery to fill this hole in the market as the demand for their primary products were already outweighing supply, I decided to fill this niche market myself, and start up another company in house with Stamford Stone Co Ltd producing limestone flooring exclusively... Lincolnshire Limestone Flooring was created!
Changes in trends, availability of under floor heating and more of an awareness towards ecological and health issues had created the demand for natural stone flooring, a previously almost forgotten natural resource. Companies were forming to meet this demand, but there was a niche market that required a high quality alternative to the influx of cheap imported stone flooring flooding the market, and where better to source this stone than from our local English quarries.
Lincolnshire possesses many famous limestone quarries including Clipsham (which is owned by our sister company, Stamford Stone Company Ltd.). They possess beautiful oolithic limestone, formed in layers known as beds. Each bed contains variations in colours and fossiliferous content formed over millions of years, creating completely individual projects. Our flooring blocks are only selected from the lower beds of the quarries that contain hard limestone with a close pore structure, making it durable enough for even the most heavily trafficked areas.
Each quarry we source from, extract by digging rather than blasting, ensuring the quality of the block stone. The blocks are transported to our workshop to be sawn into flags or tiles, they are finished with a honed or antiqued surface, with straight or tumbled edges dependent on the project.
Concentrating solely on production and less on showrooms our product maintains a price which is more than accessible to the end user, we needed no sales pitch as our product would sell itself.
Starting out using a small saw and a hand held polishing machine we could barely produce 20m2 per week. One or two small projects later client's friends, cousins, brothers were calling for information. Recommendations and word of mouth has long been our marketing strategy and we are still adamant there is no better way.
These days we can barely believe how quickly things are moving on, we are now putting together our second portfolio showcasing a handful of the projects that our company has been involved with. Investment in machinery and a better understanding of the local limestone we are now capable of at least 50m2 per day.
Supplying each client’s individual specification, making every floor we produce bespoke. Our customers range is mainly the general public but we get recommendations from builders, architects, interior designers, tile stores and kitchen designers. Our production site is based just outside Stamford where we have built a strong local reputation.
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