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Product Summary

Fairford Grey Decorative Concrete Paving provides the performance and consistency of concrete with the look and feel of hewn natural stone. These slabs are constructed to have a shallow riven surface ideal for patio living.

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Contractor Pack 36 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)

9m2 / 36 Paving Slabs
was £323.91inc VAT £269.92ex VAT
Per m² £29.99 per m²inc VAT £24.99 per m²ex VAT
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£269.91inc VAT £224.92ex VAT
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Half Pack 18 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)

4.5m2 / 18 Paving Slabs
Per m² £49.99 per m²inc VAT £41.66 per m²ex VAT
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£224.96inc VAT £187.47ex VAT
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1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip)

0.02m2 / 1 sample
Per m² £399.50 per m²inc VAT £332.92 per m²ex VAT
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£8.99inc VAT £7.49ex VAT
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Product Summary

Fairford Grey Decorative Concrete Paving provides the performance and consistency of concrete with the look and feel of hewn natural stone. These slabs are constructed to have a shallow riven surface ideal for patio living.

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Key features

  • Stone-Effect - Fairford are natural looking stone-effect decorative concrete paving
  • Style - light textured stone-effect concrete paving slabs with tapered / rounded edges
  • Premium Range - this is product is designed to provide great performance at a competitive price
  • Durable - concrete is less susceptible to weathering than natural stone, with less chance of it ageing and changing in appearance
  • Best Seller - this is one of our best selling products based on cost, looks and performance
  • Patio Paving - ideal for garden patios and terraces
  • Options - mixed size contractor pack or three single size pack options
  • Colour - grey

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Product details

Stone Effect Concrete Paving

Fairford Grey slabs are part of Bekstone's Premium Range of decorative concrete paving. 

The classic weathered appearance and natural stone looks of Fairford Paving provides for a timeless patio which is suitable for relaxing or entertaining. The concrete slabs look like hewn stone, and have subtle shallow riven surfaces that offer and ideal base for patio furniture and seating. This shallow riven surface ensures that tables and chairs will sit firmly on the paving, making Fairford slabs suitable for most patios.

As well as their shallow riven finish the surface of the slabs are also lightly textured to provide better anti-slip performance and grip under-foot.

Uniform Colour

The Fairford slabs will provide your patio with a consistent look and feel that closely mimics riven natural stone, but additionally offers uniform colour and tonal variation. Because these slabs are manufactured rather than quarried their aesthetics are factory controlled - and so they provide precise and consistent colour and tonal control - meaning you get exactly the look and feel you were expecting.

This colour pigment uniformity and aesthetic control/predictability are the main performance advantages presented by concrete paving over natural stone paving.

Durable

Bekstone are specialist in UK concrete and reconstituted stone manufacturing and make paving products of the highest quality. This means these Fairford slabs are hardwearing, durable, and will last many, many years.

Versatile

Fairford paving is available with three different size-format slabs. These are sold as single size packs and t is also available in a mixed size “contractor pack” containing all three size-formats.

  • 300mm x 300mm
  • 600mm x 300mm
  • 600mm x 600mm
  • Contractor Pack (Mixed Sizes)

Free Advice

If you have any questions about Fairford Paving, please don’t hesitate to contact our sales team who will be happy to offer free pre-sales advice and talk you through the product.

Concrete Curing & Installation

Concrete flags are not fully cured when you install them. The curing process can take many years to complete. Therefore, there are a few precautionary steps you need to take to ensure that differential curing (varying rates of curing) are avoided. Most of these step involve ensuring that water, moisture and damp are not adversely effecting the slabs.

  • Use a full bed of mortar on the laying course
  • Ensure that the bedding mortar of the laying course is not too wet to avoid excessive moisture transfer
  • Use either an SBR bond in the bedding mortar or priming slurry on the backs of the concrete flags to help avoid moisture transfer to the slabs from the bedding layer
  • Ensure the paving has sufficient drainage and an appropriate fall/gradient, so surface water can run off the paving to avoid standing water
  • Use an appropriate jointing compound that is waterproof to prevent water entering the joints of the paving.

By taking these steps, you can help avoid some of the potential causes of differential curing/weathering with concrete flags.

Laying Advice

To install and lay concrete patio paving slabs, you'll need to do the following steps:

  1. Measure up and mark out your patio - ensure you calculate both 1) area in square metres (m2)  and 2) the fall (slope) required for drainage.
  2. Dig out the patio area to create the substrate (220 -230 mm depth).
  3. Lay the sub-base of MOT Type-1 hardcore (compacted & 150 mm depth).
  4. Ensure you mix and blend the various paving packs to ensure that any potential colour variation in manufactured batches are not discernable
  5. Coat the slabs' underside with priming slurry to improve their bond and help prevent moisture transfer. As concrete is porous, priming slurry will help protect the slabs from moisture transfer and capillary action from beneath the flags.
  6. Trowel-in and lay a bedding course of mortar mix (50 mm depth) immediately prior to laying each slab. Make sure this mix is not too wet to avoid moisture transfer to the flags.
  7. Lay the paving slabs on to the mortar bed and tamp down. Ensure you leave the desired joint spacing between the slabs and the slabs are “level” to the fall.
  8. Leave to set for 24 hours, so the mortar mix can cure enough for you to walk on the flags.
  9. Fill the joints between the paving with an epoxy based waterproof jointing compound. This will prevent water ingress between/under the concrete flags.
  10. Optional: protect your paving by sealing the slabs with a purpose made sealant (natural finish or colour enhancing).

To calculate the areas of paving in square-metres (m2), the amount of sub-base hardcore or the amount of sand and cement you'll need for the mortar mix bedding course, please refer to our paving calculators.

For the full step-by-step guide with videos for each step, see our How to Lay Patio Paving Slabs article.

Care & Maintenance

Concrete is a porous material and contains tiny capillaries and micro-fissures throughout its structure. Consequently, concrete paving is susceptible to water-based chemical erosion (acidic corrosion), physical erosion (frost action), and from staining from waterborne grime, salts and other mineral and particulate deposits. Therefore, as the UK has high winter humidity (generally 80-90%) and damp conditions are the norm, we recommend that you help protect and elongate the life of your paving by sealing the slabs against the water/damp based issues. Our impregnating sealers are designed to enter the capillaries and micro-fissures in the slabs, blocking those spaces to prevent water entering the paving.

  1. Natural finish sealer
  2. Colour enhancing sealer

In addition to sealing the slabs, we recommend ensuring you brush away leaves, dirt and other detritus regularly, especially in the autumn and winter when leaves, twigs, seeds and other windfall materials are likely to fall on your patio. If left on your paving, especially if damp, and worse still, allowed to rot down and become mulch-like, your paving will almost certainly acquire brown stains from the release of tannins from the windfall materials (think a used tea bag left on a kitchen counter for a model of what will happen).

As well as brushing off dirt and windfall materials, give your patio a hose down with water every so often. Use a low-pressure hose or keep any jet-wash far enough away from the slabs to ensure you don't damage them with the high-pressure water jet. For more stubborn stains and the build-up of grime, we recommend using a specialist non-acidic patio cleaner.

 

Specifications
  Contractor Pack 36 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) 1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip) Half Pack 18 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)
No. of Pieces 36 1 18
Pack Coverage (m²) 9 0.02 4.5
Range Premium Concrete Premium Concrete Premium Concrete
Prod Type Concrete Paving Slabs Sample Concrete Paving Slabs
Material Concrete Concrete Concrete
Finish Light Textured Light Textured Light Textured
Finish (Edge) Tapered / rounded Tapered / rounded Tapered / rounded
Colour Grey Grey Grey
Colour Group Grey Grey Grey
Dimension (W) Varies 200 Varies
Dimension (H) Varies 100 Varies
Dimension (D) 38+/- 38 38+/-
Interior / Exterior Exterior Exterior Exterior
Pack Contents C/PACK Sample H/PACK
Pack Sold As Contractor Pack Sample Half Pack
Pack Description

600 x 600 Qty 18
600 x 300 Qty 10
300 x 300 Qty 8

1 x sample

600 x 600 Qty 9
600 x 300 Qty 5
300 x 300 Qty 4
Pieces Description Paving Slabs sample Paving Slabs

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