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Red-brown granite

Hoody Dark Granite

Also sold as Hodi Dark · Rosa Hoody Dark

جرانيت هودي غامق — الصفحة بالعربية

The deep grade of Hoody — red-brown ground, heavy speckle.

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Hoody Dark — granite slab
Polished slab

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.

Hoody Dark is the deeper selection from the same Eastern Desert beds as Hoody Light. The feldspar runs red-brown instead of rose and the dark mineral load is much heavier, and it is a paving stone before it is anything else. The format list says so — kerbs and cobbles as well as blocks, slabs, tiles and steps — and the heavy speckle is what makes it work outside: tyre marking, dust and the shadow line between units break up in the pattern instead of sitting on top of it. Physically nothing changes between the two grades. Same quarry, same hardness, same weathering. What changes is where the eye settles: Hoody Light lifts a floor, Hoody Dark holds a scheme down. If a job carries both, the obvious division is the dark underfoot and the light on the walls above. It is also leathered, which the light grade is not.

Halayeb is the other warm brown we ship for external work — plainer, browner, with a big legible crystal. Hoody Dark carries the red of the Hoody beds and a heavier dark speckle, and if Hoody Light is already specified on the job it is the one to use underfoot, because the two grades come out of the same quarry.

Material
Granite
Colour
Red-brown
Origin
Eastern Desert, Egypt
Availability
High
Finishes
Polished, Honed, Flamed, Bush-hammered, Sandblasted, Leathered
Formats
Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Kerbs and landscape, Cobbles and setts, Steps and risers

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Photographs

Hoody Dark in the yard

Photographs of our own blocks, slabs and finished work. Slab photography shows one slab — the block it came from is what you are quoted against.

Polished slab

Laid out

Hoody Dark 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.

Hoody Dark tile — Egyptian granite

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

Hoody Dark against your wall colour

Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Hoody Dark 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.

Hoody Dark tile — Egyptian granite
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Background colour
Laid as Joint
Light

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

Hoody Dark, 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.

Hoody Dark surface, close up — Egyptian granite

Roughly a 130 mm span of Hoody Dark, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.

Specified for

Where Hoody Dark is used

  • External paving
  • Facades
  • Kerbs and landscaping
  • Kitchen tops
  • Stairs

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

PropertyTypical valueStandard
Bulk density2,600 – 2,780 kg/m³EN 1936
Water absorption0.05 – 0.40 %EN 13755
Compressive strength130 – 220 MPaEN 1926
Flexural strength10 – 18 MPaEN 12372
Abrasion resistance12 – 18 mmEN 14157
Frost resistancePasses 48 cyclesEN 12371
Mohs hardness6 – 7—
Reaction to fireClass A1EN 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 Hoody Dark 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

Green · Granite Verde Ghazal Deep olive green shot with black and pale grey. Eastern Desert360° → Gandola — Egyptian granite slab Pink · Granite Gandola Pink feldspar and black mica over a pale grey ground, coarse and even. Aswan360° → Black Aswan — granite slab Black · Granite Black Aswan Dense black with a subtle grey crystal. Aswan360° → Grey Aswan — Egyptian granite slab Grey · Granite Grey Aswan Mid grey with black and white speckle — the neutral workhorse. Aswan360° →

Asked about this stone

Hoody Dark — questions buyers ask

Can I get kerbs and cobbles as well as paving?

Yes — kerbs and cobbles are both standard formats for Hoody Dark, so a landscape scheme can take the paving, the kerb line and the setts from one stone. Hoody Light is not cut as cobbles.

Which finish for external paving?

Flamed is the usual choice, with bush-hammered and sandblasted as the other two external finishes we produce in-house. Flaming opens the surface and takes some of the red out of the ground, so specify from a flamed sample rather than a polished one.

Is it a sensible worktop stone?

Kitchen tops are on its list, and it is one of the grades we leather — worth doing here, because a polished red-brown with speckle this heavy shows water marks and fingerprints that a leathered surface hides.

How much does it vary block to block?

The weight of the dark speckle is what moves, which matters far more across a large paved area than on a single worktop. Order the whole quantity at once and ask for it to be cut from one run.

Get a quote on Hoody Dark.

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.

Or send a full specification

Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day

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