Guides
Know before you lay.
What we tell customers across the counter, written down. Choosing, laying, sealing, cleaning and what happens on delivery day.
All guides
Porcelain or sandstone? Choosing for a UK garden.
The honest trade-offs between riven Indian sandstone and 20 mm vitrified porcelain, so you pick for the garden you have rather than the photo you saw.
5 min readHow to lay Indian sandstone.
Full bed, primed backs, 10 mm joints and a fall of 1 in 80. The method that stops slabs rocking and stops the patio holding water.
7 min readLaying 20 mm porcelain outside.
Porcelain is unforgiving of shortcuts. Slurry primer, a solid bed, tight joints, and the right jointing compound.
6 min readHow many packs? Measuring a patio properly.
Length by width, plus an allowance for cuts, rounded up to whole packs. The maths that stops you being one pack short on a Sunday.
3 min readSealing sandstone: whether, when and what.
Sealing isn’t compulsory. It changes how the stone looks and how it ages, so decide before the first winter.
4 min readCleaning a patio without wrecking it.
What each stone will and won’t tolerate — acids, pressure washers and the bleach your neighbour swears by.
4 min readWhy slabs vary in shade, and what to do about it.
It’s rock. The variation is the point — but it needs managing when you lay.
3 min readReading a mixed patio pack.
Four sizes, one pack, no repeat. What’s inside and how to lay it so it doesn’t look like a grid.
3 min readDelivery day: what turns up and where it goes.
A pallet of stone weighs a tonne. Here’s what to expect and what to have ready.
3 min read