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Behind The Scenes – Paving

Buxton Stone Admin Team — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:27:12 +0000

Behind the Scenes – Paving

It’s wonderful to talk about our projects that feature high profile buildings and projects; we have had the pleasure of supplying work for major UK church restorations, prestige stately homes and prime governmental structures.

However, most of our projects involve supplying large scale flagging, paving and walling for local governments. This year we have been inundated with projects supplying a lot of commercial work to ‘reflag’ our clients streets and pathways. However, projects like this take a lot of planning and work.

Our commercial work takes a lot of time to work, make and deliver. Often the project requirements are over 1000m² and each project can take upto 12-18 months to complete – depending upon circumstances. As well as regular paving, we also supply blister paving, coloured bricks, paving setts, radial and transition kerbing for a wide range of requirements.

Pictures below are examples of the paving we supply, our dedication to high quality natural stone, having a fine tunes process and ability to deliver means our large projects are a great part of what we do.

To have a look at our process of making the paving, follow the link > HERE

On average, if we supply 1000m² of paving, taking the average paving slab size and thickness; we would be supplying between 3000-4000 pieces of paving stone (depending on the size of the stone) at around 190 tonnes! That is just one job at over 1000m², we have had several running this year – it’s a lot of stone production! What can we do for you?

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Bank of England – Threadneedle Street

Buxton Stone Admin Team — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:00:45 +0000

Threadneedle Street, London – Bank of England

The old lady of Threadneedle Street, is a very old fond monica given to the Bank of England. It sites on large site at the end of this famous street.

However, a project was commissioned to update the paving and road outside of the front and we were proud to have been asked to supply the bricks for the project. The client wanted Whitworth stone setts. Whiteworth is a very hard sandstone, making it idea for somewhere that is going to get a lot of ‘traffic’ over the top of it.

As you can see from the 2 images below, almost identically taken from a before (thanks to Google Street View) and one from the work on site; you can see what parts are being upgraded.

Click on the image to see them enlarged and scroll, more easily, for comparison.

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Curved Patio Area Project

Buxton Stone Admin Team — Fri, 24 May 2024 09:00:11 +0000

Curved Patio Areas with Porcelain Pavers

This is another stunning project by one of our partners, who obtains their stone from us and then installs it at a clients. The project was a porcelain patio areas, curved, in sections with low walling and coping stones required.

Grey sandstone copers were used to offset the colour in the flooring and walls. See the before (work in progress) and after!

The BEFORE images.

After the planting and furnishing had been applied to the area, you can see how naturally the stone harmonises with the greenery. You can even use it for design ideas on patio areas. The curves are very smooth and all of the measurement for the cutting on copers and pavers had to be accurate.

The AFTER images.

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