Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:39 pm
Hi, newbie here with a really dumb newbie question.
I'm trying to choose block paving for my driveway. I've spent months looking at other people's driveways for inspiration, have studied this website and manufacturers websites, tried the online visualisers, have brochures... and I've visited a couple of paving centres and discovered that "in the flesh", the blocks are absolutely *nothing* like the manufacturers pictures: the colours aren't representative, and the textures aren't the same. (I mean, look at the Marshalls brochure pic for Elite Heather, in their brochure it looks like it has a hint of purple; in real life it's more like mud brown).
To save me going round in circles, has anyone got a kind of "comparison" sheet, where I can see a matrix showing which Manufacturers blocks are broadly the equivalent of which other manufacturers blocks? I'm mainly interested in Marshalls, Bretts and Toppave.
This means that I could discount large numbers of products in one go, and then concentrate on the - hopefully - few that I might really be interested in.
And does anyone have a pro/con type thing? For example, let's say I was looking at Marshalls Tegula Deco vs Bretts Theta Cobble (they look the same sort of thing to me), do you have anything which compares the quality (or price, or anything to help me decide).
Thanks for any help you can give
I'm trying to choose block paving for my driveway. I've spent months looking at other people's driveways for inspiration, have studied this website and manufacturers websites, tried the online visualisers, have brochures... and I've visited a couple of paving centres and discovered that "in the flesh", the blocks are absolutely *nothing* like the manufacturers pictures: the colours aren't representative, and the textures aren't the same. (I mean, look at the Marshalls brochure pic for Elite Heather, in their brochure it looks like it has a hint of purple; in real life it's more like mud brown).
To save me going round in circles, has anyone got a kind of "comparison" sheet, where I can see a matrix showing which Manufacturers blocks are broadly the equivalent of which other manufacturers blocks? I'm mainly interested in Marshalls, Bretts and Toppave.
This means that I could discount large numbers of products in one go, and then concentrate on the - hopefully - few that I might really be interested in.
And does anyone have a pro/con type thing? For example, let's say I was looking at Marshalls Tegula Deco vs Bretts Theta Cobble (they look the same sort of thing to me), do you have anything which compares the quality (or price, or anything to help me decide).
Thanks for any help you can give