Flagstone in Ghana is a natural stone cut into flat pieces. It is a popular choice among homeowners for patios, sidewalks, garden walls and roofs, along with many other construction projects in all parts of Ghana.
In most part of Ghana, flagstone is available in a variety of colors ranging from blue-gray to brown.
Flagstone is a generic flat stone, sometimes cut in regular rectangular or square shape and usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, flooring, fences and roofing.
Flagstone is a sedimentary rock that is split into layers along bedding planes.
Flagstone is usually a form of a sandstone composed of feldspar and quartz and is arenaceous in grain size (0.16 mm – 2 mm in diameter).
Flagstone in Ghana is durable and long-lasting.
Generally, removal is necessary only when a homeowner no longer wants the structure, rather than because it has worn. Removal methods vary depending on the original installation.
The material that binds flagstone is usually composed of silica, calcite, or iron oxide.
The rock color usually comes from these cementing materials. Typical flagstone colors are red, blue, and buff, though exotic colors exist.
Flagstone is quarried in places with bedded sedimentary rocks with fissile bedding planes.
Many years ago in Ghana before the thirteenth century, the ceilings, walls and floors in European architecture became more ornate.
Anglo-Saxons in particular used flagstones as flooring materials in the interior rooms of castles and other structures.
