Del Prado Slate | Natural Spanish Slate
Hand-split in North West Spain exclusively for SSQ.
The Elegant Del Prado Natural Slate
Del Prado slate, quarried and hand-split in North West Spain, offers an elegant blue-black hue and strong texture. It's the perfect choice for a stunning roof finish, with its natural minerals adding a striking touch to your building's design.
Features & Benefits:
• Colour : Blue/Black
• Material : Natural Slate
• Deep texture
• Up to 75 year guarantee
• High-quality hand-split Spanish Slate
Certification:
• Norm Francais (NF 228)
• BS EN 12326
• W1-T1-S1
From Spain’s slate heartland
North-West Spain is renowned for producing some of the finest natural slate in the world. Like many of SSQ’s other quality slate products, Del Prado is quarried and split by hand in the region exclusively for our customers.
Natural Del Prado Slate hand-split in Spain for SSQ
Del Prado is Spanish slate that has a deep texture and elegant black-blue colouring, and is hand-split in North West Spain exclusively for us. But it doesn’t just look good – it’s been rigorously tested, and comes backed with extensive guarantees.
Find out what’s made Del Prado so popular with architects and homeowners around the world and how it can enhance your architectural design by contacting us today.
Extensively tested and guaranteed for three-quarters of a century
SSQ Del Prado has achieved excellent results when tested in accordance with EN 12326, in addition to passing our own rigorous quality control tests. It also carries the CE mark, is classified as ‘W1-T1-S1’, and has been tested to the demanding Norm Français (NF 228), the strictest slate testing criteria in the world.
In fact, we’re so confident that our exceptional Del Prado natural slate will offer a lifetime of outstanding performance that we guarantee it for 75 years!
Contact usDiscuss Your Project
Discuss Your Project
Just fill in the form below, and a member of our experienced team will be in touch. Please feel free to give as much detail as you need, and include any design or technical questions you have.
Request a Sample
Request a Sample
The best way of judging the quality of slate and phyllite is to hold it in your hands, and examine it in detail for yourself.
If you’d like a sample of any of the products we provide, don’t hesitate to fill in the form below.
Booking a CPD
Book a CPD
At SSQ, we love sharing our decades of natural slate expertise with architects, and our CPDs are always extremely popular.
On our RIBA-approved Why Specify Slate CPD, you’ll learn about:
- How to guarantee a perfect slate roof
- The secret to specifying
- Unusual roof designs
- How to avoid specifying defective slate
- The difference between CE tested and true quality slate
- The legal requirements when it comes to specifying slate
- How to specify random coursed roofing slates
- The difference between hook and nail fixing
- The environmental benefits of natural slate
- Specifying heritage roofing slates
… and a whole lot more.
If you’re interested in booking a place on our next CPD, simply fill in this form.
Resources
SSQ Professional Resource Centre
When you work with SSQ, you get so much more than world-class slate and architectural stone.
Over the last forty years, we’ve built up a huge amount of expertise covering natural slate, roofing, geology, specifications and so much more – and you can benefit from that, along with case studies, CAD drawings, technical PDFS and a wealth of other support, on our Professional Resources centre.
