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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:36 am
by JGardner
Hi all, does anyone know who/where manufacture these PCC units?
they're 195x95x65mm deep. mock Staffordshire Blues
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:45 am
by lutonlagerlout
never seen them in that size depth
baggeridge used to do some lovely blenheim blues but the 65mm is european standard,have you tried weinergerger?
LLL
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:23 am
by Tony McC
They're the more modern version of a diamond or stable paver (terminology varies between the two remeining manufacturers). They look, at a distance, like the Baggeridge/Wienerbnerger version.
Intended to be laid unbound and suitable for vehicles, they remain a reasonably popular choice in West Midlands towns for details such as vehicle crossings. As lovely as they are, they don't compare to those made from the Etruria Marl which are brrndled with hues from reds, to brownns, blues, charcoals and even, occasionally, a dash of cream.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:56 am
by JGardner
Tony McC wrote:They're the more modern version of a diamond or stable paver (terminology varies between the two remeining manufacturers). They look, at a distance, like the Baggeridge/Wienerbnerger version.
Intended to be laid unbound and suitable for vehicles, they remain a reasonably popular choice in West Midlands towns for details such as vehicle crossings. As lovely as they are, they don't compare to those made from the Etruria Marl which are brrndled with hues from reds, to brownns, blues, charcoals and even, occasionally, a dash of cream.
Thanks,
the ones photo'd however are PCC, and not clay.
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:55 am
by Tony McC
I don't think they are concrete. I've never seen a concrete version, indeed, there wouldn't be any call for a concrete version. What makes you think they are concrete?
On the photie you posted, one block can be seen with a missing corner and the internal matrix of the broken paver very definitely looks like fired clay rather than a mixed aggregate concrete.
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:07 pm
by JGardner
Tony McC wrote:I don't think they are concrete. I've never seen a concrete version, indeed, there wouldn't be any call for a concrete version. What makes you think they are concrete?
On the photie you posted, one block can be seen with a missing corner and the internal matrix of the broken paver very definitely looks like fired clay rather than a mixed aggregate concrete.
Hi Tony,
I think the broken one is red herring as this was a different unit.
https://ibb.co/6gQnXnc
I thought I could see aggregate through the side where they'd been knocked, but there is a definite glaze to the side, which as you say would suggest them being clay.
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:14 am
by Tony McC
That close-up confirms it: they are definitely clays - that's Etruria Mark they're made from, so distinctive!