Theft of laid stone paviors

[derekoak]

Block paviors laid on sand, with sand jointing are reasonably easy to lift. Has anyone heard of stone paviors being stolen after they are laid?
Is there an easy way to deter?

[Rich H]

No and no! At £10 for 50 off 50mm brindles I could think of easier things to nick!

[lutonlagerlout]

they are not easy to lift at all derek,plus the fact there tends to be a lot of cuts means they wont work elsewhere,only about 15-20% of block paving cost is in the blocks
dont worry
LLL

[derekoak]

they are not easy to lift at all derek,plus the fact there tends to be a lot of cuts means they wont work elsewhere,only about 15-20% of block paving cost is in the blocks
dont worry
LLL

I was thinking of stone paviors not concrete, as in granite £37/sq.m

[Rich H]

Taking them out is not easy as LLL says, imagine trying to pick out individual jigsaw pieces from a finished work without lifting up the whole thing.

I think a while ago for something else someone suggested a machine-gun nest for a deterrent.

[Pablo]

Sawn granite block paving @ £37m sounds a bit cheap. Are you the one thats doing the stealing.

[lutonlagerlout]

if you are that worried have a 2.4 M electric gate
i know there are lots of apocryphal tales of expensive paving being nicked but i have never seen a first hand account.

lot more money and less risk nicking lead off roofs right now,and copper out of derelict houses

LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

my sisters company bought a house for redevelopment and someone (pikies?) turned up mob handed with jcb and 2 wagons and over 10 men and lifted 100 metres x 4 metres drive of yorkstone flags the day after their board went up declaring their intentions to redevelop.

even told the neighbours it was day one etc and they were working for her company, insurance paid out over 30k in the end.

[ambient]

we are always getting calls for estimates for insurance companies to replace original york stone flags in backyards that have been stolen

[surreyhillslandscapes.com]

I was working for a firm down in Plymouth,we were laying some new block paved parking bays in a less desirable area of town, we were having blocks nicked every night and stones thrown at us by the local kids every day, reckon there are a lot of grey basketweave patios laid on mud on that estate !

[lutonlagerlout]

weathered yorkstone is hard to replace,i have spied an old 4' by 3' flag in a back alley near me for some time but it must be blooming heavy.
i tell a lie about thefts, i had a guy wanted to redevelop an old yard and there was a 225 boundary wall in luton greys,i quoted £150 a thousand to take it down and clean the bricks up.
when we went back a year later the wall was gone :O

funny enough the Nigerian, family over the road had an appallingly built wall in reclaimed Luton greys
i wanted to go over and have it with them, but the developer just laughed at the state of their efforts
there is loads of stuff been nicked on salvoweb,but AFAIK not much new paving
LLL