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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:00 am
by robbins
I am sourcing a local supplier in the West Mids for Sandstone, which I want to try and match up with old Yorkstone steps we already have, the rest of the patio was a disaster. Would have liked reclaimed yorkstone but could not justify the price. We have been told thay Forest Glen is the closest, by a company called Garden World, but online there seem to be many suggestions of colours that match. Is this because different manufacturers use different names? Excuse my ignorance, but have only just started researching and my time is limited working full time. what it laid for Christmas. Gardeners World seemed to be very helpful, has anyone else used them.
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:28 pm
by carlbeardsmore
Is the company Gardeners World or Garden World ? The name seems to change in that hard to read paragraph???
Also, why was the rest of the patio a disaster?
Most on here work full time, no reason to expect others to do the donkey work for you.....
Matching flags is always hard. How many steps are allready there? Would it not be easier to take those up and lay new so that it all matches.
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:34 pm
by lutonlagerlout
TBH fella sandstone and yorkstone are 2 different beasts, even the nicest sandstone will never be as thick as yorkies
sandstone = 25-35mm thick yorkstone 50-125mm thick
plus yorkstone just tends to be a randomly square shape
regards LLL
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:15 am
by Tony McC
The only way to match yorkstone is to source yorkstone, and that becomes even more complicated because there are dozens of different sand/silt/mud/grit stones that would be generically classed as 'yorkstone'.
There are some sandstones from Asia that are incredibly similar to certain yorkstones, but you'd need to check just what yorkstone you have before knowing what to look for.
Then you have the problem of weathering. If you are matching an existing yorkstone, then a newly quarried stone, whether it's from Asia, from Yorkshire or even from the very same quarry as the original, will NOT look the same because it's not been weathered. The only way around that is to source a reclaimed/salvaged yorkstone.
Forest Glen or any of the other cutely named imported stones will never match an existing native yorkstone.