Looking for slate

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  1. Stinger

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    Hi all. I'm looking for slate in the Lenasia area.
     
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  3. cago75

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    i am on the same boat. following
     
  4. Reedfish

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    Perhaps a garden centre or builders depot may have ?
     
  5. Matt_

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    Hi

    I used two boxes of slate cladding for the back of my tank (precut not everyone's taste, but worked for my application). It wasn't easy though, then with some leftover pieces I made small structures for cave dwellers...

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    You can cut it with an angles grinder, hell of a lot of dust
    You have to rinse and wipe it thoroughly to get rid of the dust, even out of the box.
    You can stick it, once clean and dry with marine silicone.
    Didn't give cloudiness or change the pH.

    https://www.ctm.co.za/walls/tile-st...QwtNOcrkLhbuuro3eDdQ2U-bq8d_SHdBoCHjMQAvD_BwE

    Matt
     
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    I was able to find a few tiles.
     
  7. top dog

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    there was a place on malibongwe near the dom called masista i think,
    last time i was able to buy slate there, was few years back
     
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    Yeah Mazista have an amazing range of both cut and pieces of slate
     
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    Stinger

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    Yeah need some for my pond the dust looks very unsightly at the bottom. Have a few pieces to cover half the pond need a few more to cover the other half.
     

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