Grey granite
Grey El Sherka Granite
Also sold as Gray El Sherka · El Sherka Grey · Grey Elsherka · Gray Elsherka
جرانيت رمادي الشركة — الصفحة بالعربية
Cool grey-white with a fine, evenly distributed black speckle.
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Drag the slab to turn it, or use the arrow keys. Switching finish re-renders the surface — polished throws a hard specular, the abraded finishes open the surface up and knock the colour back.
Grey El Sherka is the quiet grey of the Egyptian range. The ground is a cool grey-white with no warm cast in it, the black and charcoal speckle is spread evenly rather than clustered, and the crystal is fine to medium, so the face stays uniform across a large area. That is the whole point of the stone: on a paved square or a long elevation it reads as one tone from a distance and the eye finds no pattern to follow. It is produced as setts and cobbles, kerbs, steps, slabs, tiles and cut-to-size, in the full range of external finishes, so paving, edging and stairs come out of the same material. Flamed and tumbled is the usual specification for paving; polished shows the speckle at its most legible. Availability is medium, so for a single scheme take the whole quantity in one order.
New Halayeb has the same grey-white ground but a larger, denser black crystal and far more contrast: the choice when paving should have texture rather than calm. Grey Aswan and Karnak Grey are the mid-grey Aswan stones, a shade darker in the speckle. White Safaga is lighter again, and finer still.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- Grey
- Origin
- Egypt
- Availability
- Medium
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Flamed, Tumbled, Bush-hammered, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Kerbs and landscape, Cobbles and setts, Steps and risers
Send your finish and thickness on WhatsApp Request a quote for Grey El Sherka Request a sample
Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Grey El Sherka in the yard
We are photographing this material now. Until the shoot is done, the turning slab and the close-up below are renderings, and the honest answer to “what does it actually look like” is a sample in your hand.
No photographs yet. Ask us for the current slab and block photographs of Grey El Sherka — we shoot them on request, in the yard, with a scale in frame. A cut sample goes out by courier the same week.
Laid out
Grey El Sherka across a floor
A photograph shows one slab on a stand. This shows the stone tile after tile — where the pattern repeats, how far the tone drifts across a batch, and what the joint does to it. Every tile here is cut from a different part of the surface, the way material comes out of a real crate.
Indicative layout. Tone drift is deliberate — no two tiles from one batch match exactly, and a laid floor should never look like one photograph repeated.
In the room
Grey El Sherka against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Grey El Sherka on the floor, up the wall or across a worktop, set the colour it will actually sit against, and change the light — the same three questions every client asks on a site visit, answered before the sample ships.
A scene, not a render of your project: proportions are indicative and colour on a screen is never the colour in a room. Send us the drawings and we will lay the real slab sizes out against your setting-out.
Surface
Grey El Sherka, close up
The slab above turns; this is the same stone at the size it sits in your hand. Change the finish and it re-cuts.
Roughly a 130 mm span of Grey El Sherka, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Grey El Sherka is used
- External paving
- Landscaping
- Kerbs and edging
- Stairs
- Facades
- Wall cladding
Suitability depends on the finish, the thickness and the exposure. If you are specifying for external cladding, wet areas or heavy traffic, send us the detail and we will tell you what we would put in that position.
Technical
Egyptian granite — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,780 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.05 – 0.40 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 130 – 220 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 10 – 18 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 12 – 18 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 6 – 7 | — |
| Reaction to fire | Class A1 | EN 13501-1 |
These are indicative ranges for this stone family, published so you can size a design early. They are not a test certificate. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory before you close a specification.
Formats
How Grey El Sherka is supplied
Blocks
Quarry blocks selected and squared. Typical 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.5 × 1.5 m, 18 – 30 tonnes. Sold by m³, loaded on flat rack or in-container with steel cradles.
Gangsaw slabs
Full-size slabs from the gangsaw. Marble typically 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.6 – 1.9 m in 2 cm and 3 cm; granite 2 cm and 3 cm. Bundled by block so vein sequence is preserved.
Tiles
Calibrated tiles in 30×30, 30×60, 40×40, 60×60, 60×120 cm and free length, 1.0 – 3.0 cm. Edges straight-cut or bevelled, back-mesh on request.
Cut-to-size
Worked to your drawings — worktops, vanity tops, cladding panels, mitres, cut-outs, drainage grooves, undermount polishing. Supplied piece-marked to a setting-out plan. How a cut-to-size order runs
Kerbs and landscape
Granite kerbs, channels, edging and setts to European and Gulf highway profiles. Kerb sections and metres per container
Cobbles and setts
Split or sawn granite cubes, 10×10, 10×20 cm, loose or mesh-mounted on fans. Sett sizes and container loads
Steps and risers
Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.
Also in granite
Stones that sit alongside it
White Safaga
Light grey-white with an even, fine crystal.
Safaga360° →
Ghazal Dark
The near-black end of the Ghazal green.
Eastern Desert360° →
Verde Ghazal Light
Olive green at a lighter value, with more pale feldspar.
Eastern Desert360° →
Ghiandone Aswan
Large pink feldspar crystals scattered through a grey ground.
Aswan360° →
Asked about this stone
Grey El Sherka — questions buyers ask
What sizes of sett do you cut in it?
10 × 10 cm and 10 × 20 cm faces, 5 cm and 8 cm thick, and 10 cm cubes, loose or mesh-mounted on fans. Other sizes are cut to your drawing.
Is it the same stone as Grey Aswan?
No. Grey Aswan is the mid-grey Aswan workhorse; Grey El Sherka is cooler and paler, with a finer and more even speckle. Side by side on a sample board the difference is obvious; at distance it is tone rather than pattern.
Which finish for a wet or sloping area?
Bush-hammered or flamed. Both are coarse enough to hold slip resistance when wet, and bush-hammering is the more aggressive of the two, for ramps and stair treads.
Can I see it before ordering?
Yes. Cut samples go out by courier in the finish you are considering, at the thickness you intend to lay, and the sample cost is credited against the order.
Get a quote on Grey El Sherka.
Send the stone, the finish, the thickness and the destination port. You get a quote with an FOB and a CIF price, a lead time and photographs of the actual material.
We reply within one working day · Saturday – Thursday, 08:00 – 18:00 Cairo time · WhatsApp +20 106 926 2572
Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day