The Paving Blog

One of the recent technological improvements in cement technology is the manufacturing of larger “pavers”, up to 2 feet square.  Compressed just as well as their smaller brick paver cousins and as highly PSI-rated, these gorgeous stones can be used in a wide variety of ways. Their potential in a landscape is endless. They are road worthy to a degree, provided the base beneath them is properly done.  Owing to their size, some rocking and thus breakage may occur when the base beneath them gives. As always, but even more so in this case, the sub grade work requires a definite level of professionalism.

Included here we have a picture of a walkway/patio where we used the larger units to provide an access to the water feature and lower lawn areas.  We cut the 2 x 2 stones in half to allow an interesting separation as a design feature, then filling the spaces with Thyme, a nice-smelling and gorgeous flowering ground cover which filled in nicely and smelled terrific, year round.

For patios, walks and even driveways, the ease of installation means a more rapid conclusion as well.  These large flat stones have abundant purposes and look marvelous in any application.