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Dolomite Grey Paving - This light grey porcelain paving slab with marble grey & brown highlights has a realistic & natural looking surface with straight contemporary sawn edges.
See Full DescriptionDolomite Grey Paving - This light grey porcelain paving slab with marble grey & brown highlights has a realistic & natural looking surface with straight contemporary sawn edges.
See Full DescriptionDolomite Grey Porcelain Paving Slabs (1000 x 500 mm) are an exceptional choice for transforming outdoor spaces into elegant and functional areas that enhance your lifestyle. These premium Italian large-format patio tiles, with their subtle, gently undulating surface and improved stone effect finish, offer a sophisticated aesthetic that combines beauty with practicality and ease of living. These porcelain tiles are ideal for patios, terraces, and other exterior areas, providing a contemporary and refined aesthetic.
The refined design of Dolomite Grey paving slabs is instantly striking. Their natural stone effect, has a subtle, gently undulating surface texture, which mimics the natural feel of stone. The sophisticated grey honed stone pattern provide a modern, neutral backdrop that complements various outdoor furniture and landscaping choices, from minimalist modern designs to more traditional aesthetics. A key advantage of these porcelain paving slabs is their colour-match pigment technology. Unlike many other paving options, the pigment runs throughout the entire tile, ensuring that the profiles and edges closely match the surface pattern and colouring. This seamless continuity between the surface and edges adds to the tile’s overall sleekness and uniformity, providing a more polished and professional finish to outdoor designs.
These porcelain slabs offer more than just visual appeal – they help you craft an outdoor space where memories are made. Whether it's a summer barbecue, a family gathering, or simply enjoying a peaceful morning coffee, Dolomite Grey slabs create a stylish and welcoming environment. The large 1000 x 500 mm format provides a spacious, open feel to your patio, reducing the number of grout lines and making the area appear more expansive. Your friends and family will appreciate the stylish and welcoming, setting, and the durable surface ensures it can handle heavy foot traffic during social gatherings.
Beyond their aesthetic qualities, these slabs are designed for convenience and durability. Their porcelain composition makes them resistant to weathering, fading, and stains, ensuring they maintain their stunning look over time. They are also extremely low-maintenance – simply requiring occasional cleaning to keep them looking fresh. This durability means less time spent on upkeep and more time enjoying your outdoor space.
The large 1000 x 500 mm format contributes to the clean, modern look of these tiles, reducing the number of grout lines and creating a smoother, more expansive appearance. This large format also makes installation quicker and more efficient. Whether you're designing a contemporary garden patio or a sophisticated terrace, Dolomite Grey Porcelain Paving Slabs provide an elegant, hard-wearing solution that combines style with functionality for any outdoor project.
Dolomite Grey Porcelain Paving Slabs are the perfect blend of beauty, practicality, and durability, enhancing both the style and function of your outdoor living spaces.
The Dolomite Range of porcelain features 10 different colours and all available to buy from Paving Direct:
42 Tiles per pallet (pack)
Coverage approximately 21m²
2 tiles cover 1 m² (Plus a few mm for joint)
Vitrified Slabs (Non-porous)
The Dolomite Range of Porcelain is manufactured to the highest of quality from one of the finest Italian factories. Utilising pure kaolin clays and minerals, these are then fired at 1200 degrees Celsius. This elevates the slab into a different tier of paving, as the slab is now harder, more durable and now has an extremely low water absorption rate, outperforming natural stone. The Dolomite tiles are 99.5% non-porous which offers so many advantages over natural stone and concrete.
The Dolomite tiles have R11 anti-slip rating. R11 rated paving is considered to be safe for both wet and dry conditions. This product is suited to all outdoor areas, including patios, terraces, steps and balconies. They are also suitable for indoor areas surrounding swimming pools where anti-slip performance is desired.
R11 rated paving is perfect for elderly people or anyone with children, with the anti-slip rating performance providing better safety than concrete & natural stone in similar conditions.
Dolomite porcelain paving is not affected by seasonal weather changes, offering waterproof and frost-resistant performance. Unlike some stone and concrete slabs that can be affected by freeze-thaw damage/erosion, the Dolomite tiles' vitrified surface and impermeability mean water and damp cannot penetrate the slabs. As water and moisture do not enter the slab, the damaging expanding and contracting freeze-thaw process does not occur.
Key Performances:
Colour Preservation
Dolomite porcelain paving will not experience colour fading. Blacks will stay black and not turn to grey, light colours will stay as light colours and will not turn grey/brown. In summary, they will stay looking aesthetically as laid for many years.
High-performance porcelain paving is incredibly durable and hard-wearing. As well as being weatherproof and frost-resistant, its vitrified surface also means it is resistant to moss, algae and other organic matter. The same goes for other common chemicals that can blemish paving. Dolomite paving is resistant to acid and alkaline from fertilisers and lawn treatments. The hardness and cohesion of this porcelain paving also mean it is abrasion and scratch-resistant too. This all-round toughness and durability means your patio or terrace is going to maintain its appearance and condition for many years.
One of the big advantages of high-performance porcelain paving is that it is very easy to maintain. Simply wash once every six months with warm soapy water. That is pretty much it!
Porcelain Paving vs Natural Stone Paving
Porcelain paving ticks all the boxes. The price of porcelain compared to natural stone and concrete initially puts customers off. However, you are paying for the quality and longevity of your garden and lower lifetime-costs. Porcelain will outlive all other types of stone, which will save you money in the long run; especially as typically, the slabs only account for 20-30% of the initial cost of laying a new patio installation. If kept well maintained, your porcelain patio will still look brand new in 10 years time. You simply can’t put a price on slabs of this quality when looking at the long-term (10 years plus) solution for your garden.
Porcelain Paving has many advantages over standard natural quarried stones or concrete paving. These include the following:
Porcelain Paving vs Natural Stone Paving
Porcelain paving ticks all the boxes. The material quality, improved performance characteristics, extended longevity, and lower maintenance/upkeep of porcelain paving significantly lowers lifetime-costs for any garden patio paving when compared to natural stone or concrete paving.
Porcelain will outlive all other types of stone, which will save you money in the long run; especially as typically, the slabs only account for 20-30% of the initial cost of laying a new patio installation. If kept well maintained, your porcelain patio will still look brand new in 10 years time. You simply can’t put a price on slabs of this quality when looking at the long-term (10 years plus) solution for your garden. Because porcelain exterior tiles are vitrified (glass-like) and the material is a solid homogeneous slab, it is waterproof and impervious. This means that dirt and grime, algae and lichen cannot penetrate and get in the material of these paving slabs. This makes keeping them clean and maintaining them much easier. Simply brush off leaves and detritus and wash with warm soapy water.
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Porcelain paving uses printed designs on the surface of the slab to create the patterns. Each pack will typically contain a variety of tile designs to ensure sufficient visual variation when you lay them. To ensure you do not lay matching patterns adjacent to one another and to ensure the blend/mix looks more varied, we advise inspecting the slabs prior to installation and determining your laying pattern. This ensures that the overall desired hue/pattern is achieved and evens out any slight colour discrepancies when laying more than one pack. Laying your patio one pallet at a time can lead to slight but visible colour banding.
Porcelain paving is non-porous and, therefore, requires a Slurry Primer to ensure it bonds properly with the bedding mortar. The priming slurry should be applied to the underside of each paving tile just prior to laying. Please refer to the laying instructions if in any doubt.
A flexible Jointing Grout should be used, and care must be taken not to let it dry on the surface of the tile. We recommend applying a protective sealant to your porcelain tiles to help prevent marking from grout residue (Porcelain Tile Protector).
To install and lay porcelain patio paving slabs, you'll need to do the following steps:
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.
Step-by-Step Patio Installation Guide
Please see our step-by-step installation guide, which includes videos for all the key steps - How to lay a patio.
If you require any additional information on laying our porcelain, please give us a call on 01993 608 824 and speak to our dedicated expert paving team.
Because porcelain paving is non-porous, many of the issues that arise with concrete and natural stone paving, do not occur with porcelain outdoor tiles. Walked-on dirt and grime and washed-on soluble grime and dirt are almost guaranteed on every patio. With porcelain paving slabs, this dirt and grime is largely superficial and sitting on the surface, as it cannot penetrate the vitrified homogeneous porcelain tile. Therefore, most of this build up of grime can be dealt with by brushing down your porcelain patio with yard brush and warm soapy water, and rinsing off with a garden hose.
There will inevitably be windblown or falling detritus and organic material such as leaves, twigs, nuts, seeds and grass cuttings that come to settle on your patio. These can transfer a contact stain when they are wet/damp of natural tannin pigments (akin to a tea stain) that will leave brown marks on your slab. Obviously, the first solution is to regularly sweep off any organic material that settles on your porcelain patio. However, should the paving become stained with tannins, then Pavestone Porcelain Patio Cleaner is recommended to help remove these blemishes.
| 1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip) | Single Size Pack 42 Pieces (1000 x 500 x 20 mm) | Mini Pack 10 Pieces (1000 x 500 x 20 mm) | |
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| No. of Pieces | 1 | 42 | 10 |
| Pack Coverage (m²) | 0.02 | 21 | 5 |
| Range | Paving | Dolomite Range | Dolomite Range |
| Prod Type | Sample | Porcelain Paving Slabs | Porcelain Paving Slabs |
| Material | Porcelain | Porcelain | Porcelain |
| Finish | Light Textured | Light Textured | Light Textured |
| Finish (Edge) | Sawn / Straight | Sawn / Straight | Sawn / Straight |
| Colour | Light Grey | Grey | Light Grey |
| Colour Group | Grey | Grey | Grey |
| Dimension (W) | 200 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Dimension (H) | 100 | 500 | 500 |
| Interior / Exterior | Exterior | Exterior / Interior | Exterior / Interior |
| Pack Contents | Sample | 1000 x 500 x 20 | M/PACK |
| Pack Sold As | Sample | Single Size Pack | Mini Pack |
| Pack Description |
1 x sample |
1000 x 500 Qty 42 |
1000 x 500 Qty 10 |
| Pieces Description | sample | Paving Slabs | Paving Slabs |
| Dimension (D) | 20 | 20 |
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