I am a home owner looking to have these blocks laid and have one concern - will tyre marks show up on the light grey version of these blocks? Hopefully someone with these blocks can comment. I've contacted five local companies (3 on Marshalls register) and no one has laid these blocks before.
I accept lighter blocks will need cleaning more often, I just don't want a 'skid pan' affect on my drive - especially considering the price of these blocks!!!
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Ben
Experience of marshalls argent? - Thinking of having these laid
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If you have the sort of driveway that has to endure a lot of power steering point turns, or you're on a bit of a gradient, the ligher Argent blocks (gorgeous though they are!) will inevitably become marked.
Depending on the extent and layout of your driveway, clever design might find a way of using the darker blocks, or a darker complementary block, in the vulnerable places, leaving those deliciously glistening Silver-grey blocks to be laid everywhere else. However, its Sod's Law that your project won't be suitable!
So: you either accept there'll be some tyre marking, and understand that you'll have to do a bit of maintenance every few months - a white school rubber does the job, but it's a long, arduous task best suited to a truculent teenager - or you look for summat different.
I'm not sure how well a sealant might protect a light-coloured shot-textured block like Argent from the worst of a set of tyres. I' be interested to find out - I reckon one of the better quality, low-visual-impact sealants might help avoid the heaviest stains, but I can't be 100% sure.
These Marshalls-approved contractors: did none of them think to ask their mates at Halifax HQ? After all, they pay a good few hundred quid each year to become "approved". I reckon that should entitle them to a bit of free technical advice, don't you? :;):
Depending on the extent and layout of your driveway, clever design might find a way of using the darker blocks, or a darker complementary block, in the vulnerable places, leaving those deliciously glistening Silver-grey blocks to be laid everywhere else. However, its Sod's Law that your project won't be suitable!
So: you either accept there'll be some tyre marking, and understand that you'll have to do a bit of maintenance every few months - a white school rubber does the job, but it's a long, arduous task best suited to a truculent teenager - or you look for summat different.
I'm not sure how well a sealant might protect a light-coloured shot-textured block like Argent from the worst of a set of tyres. I' be interested to find out - I reckon one of the better quality, low-visual-impact sealants might help avoid the heaviest stains, but I can't be 100% sure.
These Marshalls-approved contractors: did none of them think to ask their mates at Halifax HQ? After all, they pay a good few hundred quid each year to become "approved". I reckon that should entitle them to a bit of free technical advice, don't you? :;):
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