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  Jackson's Landscape Design October 10, 2009 at 10:03am

  Hi Phil
  
  I'm sure your answers will be as diverse as the companies who will respond to your question, which is great.
  I'm also sure we will all take little snippets from each other and mould them into our own practical procedures.
  
  I for one, well as from last night, will cease using PVA and with no convincing at all. Plain old common sense provails.
  
  I'll give you my top 3 of paving and driveway materials used in the last 6 years:
  
  Paving:
  1st Granite: Light, Dark and Graphite
  2nd Sandstone Riven and smooth, six size random project packs
  3rd Midnight blue Slate, again in a six size random pack
  
  Driveways:
  1st Tegula Traditional 3 sizes
  2nd Tegula Duo 3 sizes
  3rd Driveline 50
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  Big Dig Groundworks October 10, 2009 at 10:34am

  For me it is
  1st Indian sandstone in 4/5 sized project packs
  2nd 3 x 2 concrete flags or council flags as some people call them.
  3rd Clay pavers
  
  I have based this on square meterage not number of jobs.
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  David Beasley Garden Design October 10, 2009 at 10:53am

  1) 900x600x50mm BSS grey concrete flags (council flags) - cheap as chips, brutally 'contemporary', heavy as *#!$!
  2) 600x600mm Marshalls Saxon Buff/Bradstone Textured concrete pavers - close jointed, a design classic!
  3) 240x160mm Marshalls Tegula 'Pennant Grey' - nice size, easily available, blends well with old tarmac and council flags.
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  Jackson's Landscape Design October 10, 2009 at 11:24am

  David
  
  Those 900x600x50mm BSS Flags are more commonly known as sleeping tablets, I personally know and have seen with my own eyes men that have little slight accidents whilst straining to lift these units.
  
  Of course I let them go home, on the bus!
  
  Personally, not too many years ago whilst atender age of 18-19 the sleeping tablets used to come with two steel bands around them, I was shown that with a shovel and a little umph you could break the bands by thrusting the shovel between the two,at the connection point what I wasnt told was to do this exercise side on.
  
  I split the frist then the second, as Im now stood faceing these bad boys they decided 4 of them, to fall on my right foot, put me out of play for many weeks.
  
  Do you know what, I still open all packs side on.
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  David Beasley Garden Design October 10, 2009 at 2:00pm

  Kerry Jackson said re 'council flags':
  
  "I split the frist then the second, as Im now stood faceing these bad boys they decided 4 of them, to fall on my right foot, put me out of play for many weeks.
  
  Do you know what, I still open all packs side on."
  
  I say:
  
  "keep the plastic wrapping on for as long as possible too, it stops them falling on you!".
  
  Most builders wince when say i'm gonna lay 'council flags' like they have been banned by the Geneva Convention or something!
  
  Big Girl's Blouses.....
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  Jackson's Landscape Design October 10, 2009 at 2:05pm

  There was'nt plastic wrappers encasing the "sleeping tablet" paving when I was a boy,
  
  Big girls blouse? I used to bench press 6 at once.......................as if.
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  Steven Callaghan October 10, 2009 at 4:00pm

  You wait until you see this machine at the show made by Optimas of Germany - a tracked fork lift with a vacuum attachment, it can pick up a 1.6 tonne pallet, transport over rough ground then place each individual slab, kerb, etc. into position.
  
  Get one of these chaps and you'll be able to carry on paving until well into your nineties which, given the current debate about the age of retirement and the people with the red braces having stolen our pension funds, we may well need to do! And it's not too late to write to Santa Claus........
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  Kieran Ray October 10, 2009 at 8:34pm

  That is so cool I want one, shame I dont do enough havy paving to warant one.
  
  I mainly use CED products as I get a good deal on them, am thinking of joining marshalls register, just not sure if its actuly worth it? Kerry?
  
  my top product is there natural riven sandstone
  then there shot blast stuff.
  
  
  Steven Callaghan said:

  You wait until you see this machine at the show made by Optimas of Germany - a tracked fork lift with a vacuum attachment, it can pick up a 1.6 tonne pallet, transport over rough ground then place each individual slab, kerb, etc. into position.
  
  Get one of these chaps and you'll be able to carry on paving until well into your nineties which, given the current debate about the age of retirement and the people with the red braces having stolen our pension funds, we may well need to do! And it's not too late to write to Santa Claus........