Hi Tony,
I would like to have a patio of approx 2.9 m in diameter and from your site have been able to decide that I would either like to use the Classico and Classico circle from TopPave or the tegula drivesett circle pack form Marshalls. The topPave web site kindly provides me with number of extra stone I would require to extend to 2.9m, and aslo gives me a choice of stone of 171 x 114 x 60 or 114 x 114 x 60 and gives a picture of using either these singularly or in combination. However the picture is very small and difficult to see.
If I should decide on the Marshalls circle I need to work out how many extra rings of blocks I would require and what blocks to use to extend with as their circle is only 2.575m in dia (very accurate). They have blocks, Large 240 x 160 x 50 mm, medium 160 x 160 x 50 mm, or small 120 x 160 x 50 mm. They also have tegula cobbles 80 x 80 x 60 mm (why higher?) or I could also use tegula deco 110 x 110 x 50. I would therefore greatly appreciate if you could draw me some circle of various designs suggesting which block size would be the best to extend with and so I could calculated how many extra blocks I would need (since the guy at Jewsons was not even aware you could extend the circular pack).
I would like the patio circle to have a finishing edge in a contrasting colour to the main circle and possibly an inner ring in the same colour. The blocks that I edge the patio with will be use to edge a gravel path and around a circular lawn of 4.5 m in diameter. I want ot know what you consider to be the best way of edging the patio if the blocks should follow the same direction as the circle i.e in a horizontal design or if I should change the orientation to vertical. However this I believe will greatly increase the number of blocks required.
I hope the above makes sense.
Thanks Kate
Extending circular patio
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You'll have to wait until I catch up with everything else, Kate. Since coming out of hospital, I have 1700 emails to get through, plus all the posts in the Brew Cabin, and a stack of mail that could easily take me a week to reach the bottom.
I'll add your request to my list of tasks, and try to get back to you asap.
I'll add your request to my list of tasks, and try to get back to you asap.
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Kate Mulryan
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- Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:55 pm
- Location: Cheshire border with Stoke
Hi Tony,
Glad to hear that you are back on your feet, hope it will not be a boring task working your way through the post. Just shows what a great service you provide.
Any way I contacted Marshals technical guy who was of some help in telling me how may of each size would fill a m2, which their catalogue told me, I wanted a visual of what different size blocks looked like. Decided to go for the TopPave circle with extensions as they work out cheaper than Marshalls and the help that I got from Rowlinson Builders Merchants (North Staffs) Ltd was great. The digging started this weekend and is estimated to take upto 5 weekends so when all is finished I will post the pics.
Glad to hear that you are back on your feet, hope it will not be a boring task working your way through the post. Just shows what a great service you provide.
Any way I contacted Marshals technical guy who was of some help in telling me how may of each size would fill a m2, which their catalogue told me, I wanted a visual of what different size blocks looked like. Decided to go for the TopPave circle with extensions as they work out cheaper than Marshalls and the help that I got from Rowlinson Builders Merchants (North Staffs) Ltd was great. The digging started this weekend and is estimated to take upto 5 weekends so when all is finished I will post the pics.
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