Paving Circle 2.4m Diameter 25 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)

25 Paving Slabs
£379.99inc VAT £316.66ex VAT
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Paving Squaring Off Kit 2.4m Diameter 16 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)

16 Paving Slabs
£219.99inc VAT £183.32ex VAT
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1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip)

0.02m2 / 1 sample
Per m² £449.50 per m²inc VAT £374.58 per m²ex VAT
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£8.99inc VAT £7.49ex VAT
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Product Summary

Fairford Old Gold Decorative Concrete Circle Feature - Designed to fit perfectly with the Fairford decorative concrete paving range make laying circles a quick & easy process.

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Key features

  • Finish - light texture to provide a natural riven type appearance with tapered / rounded corners
  • Style - decorative concrete paving with a weathered rustic / natural stone effect and shallow riven profile
  • Versatile - available in three sizes (as single size packs or as a combine contractor pack) allowing for many different laying patterns
  • Durable - concrete is less susceptible to weathering than natural stone, with less chance of it aging and changing in appearance
  • Anti-slip - ideal for outdoor paving in wet conditions
  • Applications - patios and garden paving
  • Cost-Effective - Fairford paving slabs offer great value for money
  • Colour - gold
Product details

Fairford Old Gold Circle Feature and Squaring Off Kits make great focal points for any garden terrace or patio and are part of the Fairford Old Gold Decorative Concrete paving product range. The Circle is 2.4m in diameter and the Squaring Off Kit is 2.7m2 square.

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
  Paving Circle 2.4m Diameter 25 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) Paving Squaring Off Kit 2.4m Diameter 16 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) 1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip)
No. of Pieces 25 16 1
Range Concrete Circle Concrete Squaring Off Kit Paving
Prod Type Concrete Paving Feature Concrete Paving Feature Sample
Colour Dark Golden Dark Golden Dark Golden
Colour Group Buff Buff Buff
Material Concrete Concrete Concrete
Finish Light Textured Light Textured Light Textured
Finish (Edge) Tapered / rounded Tapered / rounded Tapered / rounded
Dimension (W) 2.4m 2.7m 200
Dimension (H) 2.4m 2.7m 100
None 38+/- 38+/-
None 2.4m ⌀ 2.4m ⌀
Pack Contents Kit - Circle 2.4m ⌀ Kit - Squaring Off 2.7m Sample
Pack Sold As Kit Kit Sample
Pack Description

2.4m Dia Fairford Circle

2.7 Fairford Squaring Off Kit

1 x sample

Pieces Description Paving Slabs Paving Slabs sample
Pack Coverage (m²) 0.02
Interior / Exterior Exterior

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