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Which cowboy laid this paving?

These cobbles are all over the place. The pointing has been slapped in and it's inconsistent. The lines are all over the place.

Actually the headline was to grab your attention.

Indeed if a landscaper had carried out this job on a new build or refurb, they'd be called a cowboy.

However I think there are times when reproducing paving to have this kind of impact is imperative to the credibility and integrity of a garden's design. I'd even go as far as to say that it takes great skill to reproduce the look and feel illustrated here.

FYI this is the Lion and Lamb Yard Farnham.

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  • bit like matching old brickwork. its a lot harder than people think to match in old stuff

  • its not reproduced, its time served quality work,someone has tried to repont it with a wet mix sand cement and made it look worse.
    the main strip is perfectly coursed.

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    Hi Mark

    I think the re-pointing is part of its charm.



    mark harris said:

    its not reproduced, its time served quality work,someone has tried to repont it with a wet mix sand cement and made it look worse.
    the main strip is perfectly coursed.

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    Oop North, we still have 'cobbled streets', just like that

  • It's hard to see in the picture but you normally find down these old original cobbled streets that the cobbles are laid in soil. Then when the council turn up they will only repair safety hazards (or what they deem to be a hazard)and fix that portion causing the patchwork effect. What always amazes me though is I'm sure a lot of these streets are listed so surely they should be reinstated with soil and not a wet mix? If that was done, moss would grow back over the joints and ta daa, blends on its own in time.
    I'm not a fan of the programme but I seen some footage of them building the new corrie set and it was very interesting to see them trying to replicate the old with a new build.

  • Last summer I broke out some tarmac in a customers yard - underneath was some type1 (the whole lot was put down in the 70's) and then before I put soil in the new void I found a layer of cobbles, dug those out for re-use in the garden. These seemed ot have been layed on a bed of compacted clay full of fibers of some sort - was facisnating bit of mini archeology - the whole lot got reused in the garden as edging stones./



    Ashley Robbins said:

    It's hard to see in the picture but you normally find down these old original cobbled streets that the cobbles are laid in soil. Then when the council turn up they will only repair safety hazards (or what they deem to be a hazard)and fix that portion causing the patchwork effect. What always amazes me though is I'm sure a lot of these streets are listed so surely they should be reinstated with soil and not a wet mix? If that was done, moss would grow back over the joints and ta daa, blends on its own in time.
    I'm not a fan of the programme but I seen some footage of them building the new corrie set and it was very interesting to see them trying to replicate the old with a new build.

  • I've done a little bit of dry stone walling and that is also much more difficult than it looks.

  • i wonder if the fibre in the clay was horsehair to stabilise the clay? it was used a lot in lime plasterwork for that purpose.

    David Cox said:
    Last summer I broke out some tarmac in a customers yard - underneath was some type1 (the whole lot was put down in the 70's) and then before I put soil in the new void I found a layer of cobbles, dug those out for re-use in the garden. These seemed ot have been layed on a bed of compacted clay full of fibers of some sort - was facisnating bit of mini archeology - the whole lot got reused in the garden as edging stones./



    Ashley Robbins said:

    It's hard to see in the picture but you normally find down these old original cobbled streets that the cobbles are laid in soil. Then when the council turn up they will only repair safety hazards (or what they deem to be a hazard)and fix that portion causing the patchwork effect. What always amazes me though is I'm sure a lot of these streets are listed so surely they should be reinstated with soil and not a wet mix? If that was done, moss would grow back over the joints and ta daa, blends on its own in time.
    I'm not a fan of the programme but I seen some footage of them building the new corrie set and it was very interesting to see them trying to replicate the old with a new build.

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