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14 minutes ago, Christine Walker said:

That’s a good amount of paving, that will be one of our next jobs, hubby has holidays in June so will be doing it then around 200m2, luckily I cannot get holidays at the same time so won’t be labouring!

You sound like my wife and me 

355 metres 

I’ll be like Popeye when I finish 

Though wife has her eye on a trolly for moving them 

 

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2 hours ago, Mr Punter said:

I hope that is block paving onto sharp sand with kiln dried joints as even then that is a lot of work.

Yep it is 

Stil two backs of Kerbs to go in and a few other bits before we tackle the front part of the drive 

Bit of a nightmare getting them all in Two artics 

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1 minute ago, nod said:

Yep it is 

Stil two backs of Kerbs to go in and a few other bits before we tackle the front part of the drive 

Bit of a nightmare getting them all in Two artics 

 

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Just weighing up the merits of block paving compared to Indian sandstone. I need somewhat over 200 square metres and am leaning towards block paving as I am assuming that it will be easier to lay. I suspect that laying on a bed of sand will be easier / quicker than bedding slabs on cement and having to point all the joints. Just out of interest @nod which pavers have you chosen and why did you source them from Ireland?

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22 minutes ago, Neil said:

Just weighing up the merits of block paving compared to Indian sandstone. I need somewhat over 200 square metres and am leaning towards block paving as I am assuming that it will be easier to lay. I suspect that laying on a bed of sand will be easier / quicker than bedding slabs on cement and having to point all the joints. Just out of interest @nod which pavers have you chosen and why did you source them from Ireland?

We’ve chosen Tobenore 

Shanon 60 mil 

The pedestra are about a third cheaper and also look great 

£18 a mtr plus the kerb edgings are 80 p each 

We’ve bought 820 of them 

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I had Tobermore blocks in last house, great stuff very happy with it.

 

Had an Indian sandstone terrace too..... it looked fantastic but was a nightmare in a north facing position.  Used to get covered in green stuff quick as a flash and dirty too even applying the sealer was only short term benefit.  Plus it turned into a skating rink in cold winter being porous it held the water and became very icy and slippery.  It may be better in a south facing location.

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1 minute ago, lizzie said:

I had Tobermore blocks in last house, great stuff very happy with it.

 

Had an Indian sandstone terrace too..... it looked fantastic but was a nightmare in a north facing position.  Used to get covered in green stuff quick as a flash and dirty too even applying the sealer was only short term benefit.  Plus it turned into a skating rink in cold winter being porous it held the water and became very icy and slippery.  It may be better in a south facing location.

Our  neighbour has sandstone and has the same problem We are surrounded by trees  

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26 minutes ago, nod said:

We’ve chosen Tobenore 

Shanon 60 mil 

The pedestra are about a third cheaper and also look great 

£18 a mtr plus the kerb edgings are 80 p each 

We’ve bought 820 of them 

I used tobermore for my paving. They do good quality stuff. Not much more than the £14 per sqm I paid last year. Acheson and Glover would be another decent brand.

 

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Yeah tried everywhere online 

nearly all where around 18 to 21 for Shanon 

The pedesta are 11 Doesn’t really make sense 

Going from 50 to 60 added £4 to the cost 

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