Quartz Carpet™ Stone Overlay
Quartz Carpet™ is a surface material made from natural, coloured quartz bound with a high-performance epoxy resin. It’s expertly hand-applied over existing surfaces to form a seamless, hard-wearing, and textured finish for indoor and outdoor use across floors, walls, and select joinery features.
What is Quartz Carpet™?
A resilient and durable floor covering that consists of quartz stones and high-quality binder. The quartz comes in various colours and are available in 1-2mm and 2-3mm sized stones. The system follows the existing substrate to create a seamless surface.
Substrate Suitability
Quartz Carpet™ is hand-trowelled over existing surfaces at approximately 5-7mm thick for foot traffic and 8-15mm thick for vehicle traffic. Suitable substrates include concrete, tiles, compressed sheeting, plaster, villa board, brick, ply & MDF
Areas of Application
It can be applied in residential and commercial projects on floors, walls, and joinery. For internal applications the ‘Pore Filled’ finish is used; the spaces between the quartz stones are filled making the floor a moppable, non-porouse surface. The ‘Open Pore’ finish is used externally as it is water-permeable and UV stable.
Why Quartz Carpet™?
At Alternative Surfaces, we’ve been working with Quartz Carpet™ for decades, and it never fails to impress with its flexibility, strength, and aesthetics. Quartz Carpet™ offers unique qualities that distinguish it from other aggregate flooring options:
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Thanks to its UV-resistance and non-slip texture, Quartz Carpet™ is ideal for outdoor flooring including pool surrounds, alfresco areas, pathways, and driveways/garages. It’s also a beautiful interior floor, wall and joinery solution used in award-winning projects like Aesop Sydney.
The quartz stones can be applied directly over various substrates including concrete, tiles, compressed sheeting, plaster, villa board, ply & MDF.
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Quartz stones are known for their resilience, forming durable surface that can withstand high levels of foot and vehicle traffic.
Quartz Carpet™ has been installed in some of the most prestigious car showrooms around the world including Mercedes Benz, BMW Group, Audi, Land Rover & Jaguar. It has also been installed in well known commercial Australian projects including Deakin University, La Trobe University, and HOYTS.
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Quartz Carpet™ features finer quartz particles compared to traditional exposed aggregate concrete, resulting in a smoother and more refined finish.
We provide a variety of stone sizes depending on how visible you want the individual quartz granules to be.
At Alternative Surfaces, we present a thoughtfully selected standard colour range, and we’re also happy to collaborate on creating a custom colour mix tailored to your design needs.
Looking to add branding, defined zones, or distinctive design elements? As Quartz Carpet™ is hand-installed, our artisans can form patterns, borders, or even bespoke logos.
Let’s discuss your project.
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“I chose Alternative Surfaces Quartz Carpet for both the interior and exterior finishes of the Longueville Hotel for its outstanding longevity, texture and range of colours. It gave me seamless finish with a tough and durable edge. It allowed me to feel comfortable knowing that whilst it looked great, the extreme pressure the hotel places on its floor and bar finishes wouldn’t be a problem.”
— Brad Ward, Brad Ward Design
Sizes and Colours
There are two Quartz Carpet™ finishes available. Open Pore is available in 2-3mm sized stones and is suitable for external applications. Pore Filled is available in 1-2mm & 2-3mm sized stones and is used for internal applications. If you’d like a custom colour, let us know in your enquiry. Please note: colours look different on every screen.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Quartz Carpet™ Pore Filled is suitable for internal floors and joinery (excluding showers). With Pore Fill, the areas between the stones are filled with a clear epoxy filler, creating a moppable surface. A coat of epoxy Gloss or Matt sealer is applied over the Pore Fill, depending on your preferred look.
Quartz Carpet™ Open Pore is a permeable system suitable for external applications, or internal surfaces that are not wet areas (don’t need to be mopped).
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Yes, as long as a Pore Filled sealer is applied over the quartz. Quartz Carpet cannot be applied in a shower.
For external areas exposed to water, we use the permeable Open Pore finish.
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Yes. Almost any stable, hard, and level base is suitable for X-Bond application. Here is a list of the most common substrates:
Floors: Concrete, tiles, 12-18mm compressed sheeting
Walls: Plaster, Villa board, Blue board, FC Sheeting, Concrete, Brick, Foam, Ply & MDF
Joinery: MDF, Compressed Sheeting, Laminate & Marine Ply -
As Quartz Carpet™ is a hand trowelled finish, we look at each job individually and price off the project plans.
The price to install Quartz Carpet™ varies depending on the project location, total square meters, area of application, intricacy, height (for walls), and the substrate of application.
Please email sales@altsurfaces.com.au with your project details and drawings so that we can provide you with a quote.
Premium Stone Overlay for Floors, Walls & Joinery
For 25 years, Alternative Surfaces has been installing the Quartz Carpet™ natural stone flooring system in architectural residential and commercial projects around Australia. Quartz Carpet™ is a premium overlay ideal for interior and exterior floors, walls, and joinery made from naturally rounded quartz granules, it delivers a durable, seamless and tactile finish that’s both beautiful and practical. It’s especially popular in high-traffic areas due to its resilience, easy maintenance and unique aesthetic. Whether you're an architect, interior designer, builder or property developer, we offer in-office presentations and our showroom is always open to introduce you to the Quartz Carpet™ range. To contact us about this, click here.
Aggregate-Based Overlay & Seamless Stone Flooring
When researching stone floor coverings, you might come across related terms such as Exposed Aggregate Flooring, Exposed Aggregate Concrete, Pebblecrete, or Decorative Aggregate Finishes. These all refer to systems that use aggregates, or granular materials, to create strong surface finishes. Quartz Carpet™ stands out when it comes to quality — using only fine, natural, rounded quartz granules carefully selected for size, shape, and colour as the core component. It’s a versatile, resilient, beautiful, and customisable option.
Surface Installers in Melbourne — 25 Years of Expertise
When it comes to overlay systems for renovations or new builds, we have you covered. Alternative Surfaces were the first suppliers and installers of X-Bond Microcement and Quartz Carpet™ in Australia. Now, the Alternative Surfaces division focuses solely on installations in VIC. For all surfacing and overlay requirements in Melbourne & Mornington Peninsula, please call our team at (03) 9427 1100 or send us an email via sales@altsurfaces.com.au with your enquiry. For interstate enquiries, you can contact our supply team Seamless Overlays.