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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:47 am
by XTA
Hi,
Attached pictures of slabs that were laid back in 2001 by house builder when house was built.
Assume these are some manmade concrete based slab ..can anyone confirm ?
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:18 am
by Tom - Westminster Stone
Images aren't appearing..
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 10:43 pm
by XTA
Tom - Westminster Stone wrote:Images aren't appearing..
Imagse are there when I view the post
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:16 am
by Tony McC
....maybe, but they aren't for the rest of us! It may be that you are calling them from your own cookie-enabled storage, either on a hard drive or online.
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:25 pm
by XTA
Tony McC wrote:....maybe, but they aren't for the rest of us! It may be that you are calling them from your own cookie-enabled storage, either on a hard drive or online.
hmm.... ok I will try another way to upload them
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:35 pm
by XTA
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:48 am
by Tony McC
They are a riven effect wet-cast flagstone range in buff colour. There were/are literally hundreds of producers of these throughout the country, ranging from teh big boys like Marshalls and Bradstone down to one-man-bands with a vibrating table, half a dozen moulds, and a tin shed somewhere on a grotty industrial estate.
Unless someone can identify the moulding detail (maybe Tom from Westminster Stone's dad?), it's practically impossible to identify a particular manufacturer.
I can identify 3 sizes, plus a cuircle kit. The presence of a circle kit suggests it's from one of the better manufacturers. The colour is quite faded, but there is a hint they were originally a two-colour product (light and dark buff or similar), which again points to a better quality producer.
If you are looking for a match to extend or repair, you should bear in mind that even if you succeeed in getting a positive identification, new flags from the same range/manufacturer will not match - they won't be weathered and faded, for a start, so maybe it would be enough to find something sufficiently similar?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:00 am
by XTA
Tony McC wrote:They are a riven effect wet-cast flagstone range in buff colour. There were/are literally hundreds of producers of these throughout the country, ranging from teh big boys like Marshalls and Bradstone down to one-man-bands with a vibrating table, half a dozen moulds, and a tin shed somewhere on a grotty industrial estate.
Unless someone can identify the moulding detail (maybe Tom from Westminster Stone's dad?), it's practically impossible to identify a particular manufacturer.
I can identify 3 sizes, plus a cuircle kit. The presence of a circle kit suggests it's from one of the better manufacturers. The colour is quite faded, but there is a hint they were originally a two-colour product (light and dark buff or similar), which again points to a better quality producer.
If you are looking for a match to extend or repair, you should bear in mind that even if you succeeed in getting a positive identification, new flags from the same range/manufacturer will not match - they won't be weathered and faded, for a start, so maybe it would be enough to find something sufficiently similar?
Thanks for reply have now decided to lift and replace the flags.
Probably going to stay with a lighter colour, possibly rainbow sanstone
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:09 am
by Tony McC
Rainbow sandstone???? FFS! One of the very worst paving stones ever brought into this country!
