Were at that time of year when we make a few changes to the display and add a few new products.
Tumbled grey sandstone
Tumbled Black Sandstone
Crema sandstone. Looks like mint but is more consistent in colour, much harder, less riven and has a machine cut edge
Whitworth Grey Yorkstone
the colour of raj green seems to change every six months now as the quarry area expands. This is the latest batch pointed with light grey easipoint
Harvest Sawn sandstone. I always favour laying sawn paving in single sizes but coursed can also work, especially when the stone has a bit of colour variation
Were also planning to build a terrace area to display Yorkstone & Portland Stone. We've used the London stock bricks to try and re-create the entrance to a London house.
The black sandstone is Sagar. Its fast running out and is becoming more and more difficult to get hold of.
I was over in India last week and was discussing the remaining stone reserves with a couple of my suppliers. At current production there is about 100 years of reserves waiting. The whole of the Kota region sits on stone reserves but much of the stone sits upon "forestry land". Only problem is that the forest no longer exists because it has been cut down by the locals to be used for firewood.
I thought it might be Sagar. I was talking with someone yeterday who had been sold what was alleged to be Saga by a certain online supplier and I reckon most of it was Forest Brown with odds and sods of other leftovers mixed in. Perhaps 20% of it was Sagar and/or Raveena.
Looks awesome Steve I like the selling point for the fronts of London houses nice thinking and cracking looking stone hope we get some sawn slabs from you in the near future.
I've got some of that Sagaar to lay in a few weeeks time I really like it but it's thickness variation is crazy some of the flags are 60mm deep and other 20mm so it should be fun. That Crema is called Raveena over here and I agree it's very resilient how do you tumble a flag without ending up with crazy paving by the way. The place is looking great Steve.
Pablo, Sagar is an extremely riven stone. I think its popular because its almost got that reclaimed feel about it. Our stuff is all calibrated to 25mm. The crema is a different stone to Raveena. The Raveena has got much more veining and colour variation than the crema. There is a video of the tumbling process Pablo in the blog section of paving expert. The blog is called Indian stone 2010
I got the patio almost finished now. Were planning to do a new extension next year so the patio is temporary until we get the extension done. The garden was like a complete jungle which I had to clear first.
I wanted the patio to be raised a bit so I built a small retaining wall and then got a few bags of our crushed stone dropped over the wall.
When I cleared the garden it revealed next doors garage so I want to put a screen along the back to hide the garage
Before I excavated the ground there was a lot of soil built up against the next door neigbours garage. I removed this and then put timber board across the back to prevent the MOT from the patio going against the garage.
Put timber noggins in every 6-700mm to stop the weight of the MOT bending the timber board
Got the crushed stone levelled and whacked
The crushed stone does not bind quite as well as MOT, but its not too bad. I would use a heavier whacker next time.
Started to lay the slabs. OPted to go for Autumn Brown 845x560 laid long ways away from the house. Couple of reasons. Thought it might make the area appear longer than it is and also reduced the cutting.
Got it all pointed and planted now but no pics as yet. Get them up tomorow
