Plea for help with bradstone weatherdale - Sourcing discontinued product

[the lost]

I laid my first patio earlier this year using lots of advice from this website (thanks Tony - I actually read it and it covered everything I needed to know) and Bradstone's Weatherdale Weathered Cotswold. Not that easy a job for a first timer as it was under an existing pergola and the riven texture caused me no end of stress with levels, but I'm happy with the outcome. Pictures might follow if I can take a good one.

Anyway the plan for later this summer (around about now) was to create some semi-circular steps to the conservatory at the opposite end of the garden using half a Weatherdale circle kit.

Having popped into the builders merchants earlier today to price things up I find out that Weatherdale Weathered Cotswold has been discontinued, that they've no chance of getting me a circle kit, and I've a small chance of being able to get some rectangular flagstones from another branch.

My pleas for help are:
Does anybody know of a supplier in South West London, or the South East of England who might be large enough to have some leftover stock of the circle kits?

or

Can anyone suggest an alternative product that is going to look similar in terms of colour and texture and is in a similar price bracket? The pictures in Bradstone's and Marshall's catalogues are more or less useless in that they either don't show pictures of the colourway I might want, or if they do they show pictures with poor lighting or of wet flags...

Hoping that someone can help me.

[danstan]

We stock a product which is very similar in colour to the weathered cotswold (we have some weathered cotswold 300x300's left and i have just checked them out against the other product)

We also do a circle kit and have stock currently

If you would like to give me a bell

01283 711288

i will give you some technical info and e-mail some photos for you. We are in the midlands but could get a courier to deliver to you

regards


Dan (Barton Fields Patio and Garden Centre)

[Tony McC]

Mr Bradstone revealed to me while at Glee that the Wetherdale range will henceforth be available only through B&Q and not through the more usual Bradstone stockists. Now, whether that means available under the Wetherdale name or whether it means under some other made-up-for-B&Q name, I'm not sure, but he did tell me that it *is* the exact same flag as was sold as Bradstone Wetherdale.

[lutonlagerlout]

i expect it will be like supermarket cornflakes

same taste as kellogs

look the same as kellogs

made in the same factory as kellogs

but with a different label( and hopefully a cheaper price tag)

LLL

[the lost]

Thanks to both Dan and Tony for coming up with solutions for me.

After speaking with 'the client', she's decided that 'identical' slabs are to be used. So, after speaking to B&Q who say they can still get what I want, I've ordered some in. I'll know in 3-4 weeks whether they can actually get hold of them or whether I'll be calling Dan for an alternative.

To put LLL's mind at rest, currently they taste like Kellogs, look like Kellogs and say Kellogs on the packet; but they're only available in jumbo family size packets, on a special order basis and cost more than they did in the local store (serves me right for not pulling my finger out earlier in the summer).

If anyone's interested, this is the patio that I laid at the far end of the garden earlier this year. As I said, it's my first attempt at hard landscaping, and would have been a complete mess without this site.

[lutonlagerlout]

looks nice lost,is that a silver birch hanging over the photie?
cheers LLL

[the lost]

Update for anyone who's interested in supply of Bradstone Wetherdale:

A crate of paving slabs were delivered on the 4th of Oct, so delivery time was just over a fortnight. Judging by the despatch note, they were delivered direct from Bradstone, without troubling B&Q's warehouse.

If anyone's interested I'll have half a medium wetherdale circle in weathered cotswold for sale in a couple of weeks time (assuming I don't break any of the other half whilst building steps this week) - for collection from Richmond upon Thames only.

Currently I've a nice big hole outside the back door waiting for delivery of aggregates tomorrow, hopefully by the end of the week I'll have some steps built.

And yes, it's a silver birch in the photo.