Black Limestone

Limestone · 60x60 · 20 mm

£19.50£22.50per m² + VAT

Black Limestone is a riven, hand-dressed 600×600 that lays in a tight grid. Charcoal when dry, near-black wet. Seal it and it stays that way.

  • Naturally riven surface
  • Hand-dressed edges
  • Looks great wet and dry
  • Low maintenance
  • CE marked
Size
60x60 · 600 × 600 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Finish
Riven, hand-dressed edges
Sold as
13.68 m² per pack · 38 slabs
Delivery
From Wed 30 Sep · 3–5 working days · free over £500 inside the M25 · collect free from HP2 7BW
Split packs
Yes — whole packs plus loose slabs
Prices by unit, ex VAT
UnitCoversPrice + VAT
Per m²1 m²£22.50£19.50
Single slab0.36 m²£7.02
Pack · 38 slabs13.68 m²£307.80£266.76
Packs
1
Loose slabs
0
1 pack · 13.68 m²£266.76 + VAT
  • Delivery from Wed 30 Sep: 3–5 working days from payment, kerbside on a tail-lift, we ring on the day.
  • Orders over £500 inside the M25 travel free. Elsewhere, an indicative cost by postcode below, confirmed by phone before you pay.
  • Collect free from 34 Mark Road, HP2 7BW: Mon–Fri 8–6 · Sat 8–1. No minimum.
  • Loose slabs travel on the same pallet. Any split-pack handling is confirmed with the delivery cost.

Delivery is priced by postcode and confirmed by phone before you pay. Collection from 34 Mark Road is free.

See it in 3D

Black Limestone, turned in the hand and laid on the ground.

Drag to turn. The face is the yard’s own photograph wrapped on the stone; at true proportions. Wet is simulated from the dry photograph until the hosed slabs are shot; real stone comes up darker and richer than any screen shows.

About the stone

Black Limestone, in detail.

Black Limestone is the darkest stone in the yard: charcoal when dry and near-black when wet, with a natural riven face and hand-dressed edges. In a single 600 × 600 size it lays in a tight grid or a half-bond that reads modern against pale render and grass.

It is the stone for contrast — a border around a pale porcelain, a step, a plinth — as much as for whole patios. Low maintenance, and it looks its best straight after rain.

Black Limestone lightens over time in strong sun. A colour-enhancing seal after laying holds the depth of colour and is the one thing we’d insist on for this stone.

  • Naturally riven surface
  • Hand-dressed edges
  • Looks great wet and dry
  • Low maintenance
  • CE marked

Laying and care

  1. Lay on a full bed of mortar (never spot bedding), with the backs primed so the slab bonds and the stone can’t hollow underneath.
  2. Leave a joint of 10–15 mm and point with a flexible compound or a sand-cement mix. The four sizes in a mixed pack are meant to be laid random, not in courses.
  3. Mix slabs from three or four packs as you go so any shade difference between pallets disappears into the pattern.
  4. Sealing is optional. It deepens the colour and makes cleaning easier; leave it a few weeks after laying before you apply it.

Natural stone varies. Colour, tone and pattern differ slab to slab and pallet to pallet; that variation is the point of the material. Colours come up richer wet than dry — look at the photos and the wet/dry slider before you decide.

Finish the job

Jointing for Black Limestone.

All essentials

Joint-Tec, Pitch Black

15 kg bucket · brush-in resin jointing for riven stone40 buckets a pallet
Priced at the counter

Joint-Tec, Granite Grey

15 kg bucket · brush-in resin jointing for riven stone40 buckets a pallet
Priced at the counter

Joint-Tec, Buff Sand

15 kg bucket · brush-in resin jointing for riven stone40 buckets a pallet
Priced at the counter
£320.11pack of 13.68 m² inc VAT

How many packs

Price your area in Black Limestone.

24.00 m²

10% covers a straight patio; circles, diagonals and lots of edges want 15–20%. Whole packs plus the loose slabs you need.

Area24.00 m²
With 10% for cuts26.40 m²
Packs + slabs1 × 13.68 m² + 36 × 0.36 m² = 26.64 m²
Black Limestone, ex VAT£519.48
VAT at 20%£103.90
Total inc VAT£623.38