Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:13 pm
We are just about to lay some chamferred edge natural stone paving slabs and are being given conflicting advice, narrower edge (the rougher side) up or down?
In this picture of an Indian sandstone flag, taken 'edge on'....
....you can see that the edge tapers in - this is known as a 'fettled edge'. The base of the flag has a slightly smaller surface area that the top face, and, you should be able to identify that the top face edge has a definite straight edge, whereas the base is somewhat more haphazard.....
...does that make it clearer?