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Tanners Mill Decorative Concrete Paving presents the look and feel of antique traditional flagstones at a cost-effective price. This will allow you to get the right period flagstone paving look for your project within your budget.

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Contractor Pack 40 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)

9.37m2 / 40 Paving Slabs
Per m² £39.99 per m²inc VAT £33.32 per m²ex VAT
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£374.70inc VAT £312.25ex VAT
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Half Pack 20 Pieces (Mixed Sizes)

4.68m2 / 20 Paving Slabs
Per m² £58.99 per m²inc VAT £49.16 per m²ex VAT
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£276.07inc VAT £230.06ex VAT
In Stock

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
In Stock
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Product Summary

Tanners Mill Decorative Concrete Paving presents the look and feel of antique traditional flagstones at a cost-effective price. This will allow you to get the right period flagstone paving look for your project within your budget.

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Key features

  • Antique Paving - decorative concrete flagstone paving with antique weathered / worn aesthetics
  • Period Aesthetics - An authentic reproduction of fine antique paving flags from a bygone era
  • 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
  • Traditional Gardens - ideal for older building and period homes
  • Colour - Grey / Green (Yorkstone)

Essential Buys

Jointing Compound

Pointfix

£31.99inc VAT £26.66ex VAT

Concrete Edging

Grey/Green Tanners Mill Garden Edging Stones - 570 x 150 x 50 mm Stone-Effect Concrete Edging

Per linear metre £15.99 per metreinc VAT £13.32 per metreex VAT
£364.57inc VAT £303.81ex VAT

Stone Paving Slabs

Cathedral Flagstones - Tumbled Limestone Paving

Per m² from £51.99 per m²inc VAT £43.32 per m²ex VAT
£8.99inc VAT £7.49ex VAT

Paving Sealer

Pavestone Natural Finish Stone Sealer

£44.99inc VAT £37.49ex VAT

Stone Paving Slabs

Dark Grey Tithe Flagstones - Tumbled Sandstone Paving

Per m² £54.99 per m²inc VAT £45.82 per m²ex VAT
£824.85inc VAT £687.37ex VAT

Concrete Paving Slabs

Garonne Abbey Flagstones - Cream French Limestone Style Concrete Paving

Per m² from £45.99 per m²inc VAT £38.32 per m²ex VAT
£8.99inc VAT £7.49ex VAT

Stone Paving Slabs

Denby Flagstones - Tumbled Limestone Paving

Per m² from £51.99 per m²inc VAT £43.32 per m²ex VAT
£8.99inc VAT £7.49ex VAT

Paving Cleaner

Pavestone Cement & Grout Residue Remover

£35.99inc VAT £29.99ex VAT

Stone Paving Slabs

Light Grey Durham Flagstones - Tumbled Sandstone Paving

Per m² £37.99 per m²inc VAT £31.66 per m²ex VAT
£569.85inc VAT £474.87ex VAT

Porcelain Paving Slabs

Antico Quartzite - Light Brown Porcelain Paving Flagstones (800 x 400 mm)

Per m² from £69.99 per m²inc VAT £58.32 per m²ex VAT
£337.88inc VAT £281.57ex VAT

Porcelain Paving Slabs

Antico Granite - Dark Grey Porcelain Paving Flagstones (800 x 400 mm)

Per m² from £69.99 per m²inc VAT £58.32 per m²ex VAT
£8.99inc VAT £7.49ex VAT

Paving Sealer

Pavestone Colour Enhancing Stone Sealer

£39.99inc VAT £33.32ex VAT

Jointing Compound

Pointfix Contractor Pack 36kg (3 x 12kg Tubs)

£92.97inc VAT £77.47ex VAT
Product details

Antique Flagstone Paving

There are many period and traditionally styled homes, properties and gardens in Britain that require congruous and compatible traditional “antique” paving in keeping with their aesthetic. Tanners Mill decorative concrete paving slabs have been specifically designed to offer an authentic reproduction of fine antique paving flags from a bygone era.

York Flagstones Colouring

With its grey/green colouring and realistic lightly riven surface for a classic look, this range emulates the characteristics of the York flagstones that were being produced in Victorian times. The distinctive worn antique appearance and shades complement many period properties and are perfect for use in any traditional British garden setting.

Weathered Look & Feel

Finding aged and weathered flagstone paving can be time-consuming and very costly. Tanners Mill flagstones provide you with exactly what you are looking for - with the right colouring, weathering and visual characteristics of well-worn and aged antique paving. This predictability and specificity in the aesthetic properties mean your project is going to save an awful lot of time and money getting what you know will work.

Tanners Mill paving has tapered and rounded edges, emulating antique paving. It has a simulated smoothed slightly riven and pitted finish to capture the aesthetic of ageing and weathering.

Sourcing Antique Flagstones

Reclaimed flagstones can, and often do, look spot on. But, if you don’t have enough of them, or they are from multiple sources and don’t quite match, you could run into difficulties. This is exactly the sort of project Tanners Mill was designed to solve. Its consistent and scaleable look and feel (in the volumes you might need), means days saved trying to source and match materials. As well as helping save money when sourcing materials, Tanners Mill is competitively priced too, so you’ll be saving on two counts by choosing them.

Flagstone Size-Format & Pack Options

Tanners Mill is available in four flagstone formats and comes in two pack options:

Flagstone Sizes

  • 300mm x 300mm
  • 600mm x 300mm
  • 600mm x 450mm
  • 600mm x 600mm

Pack Options

  • Mini Pack (Mixed Sizes)
  • Contractor Pack (Mixed Sizes)

We also offer a similar style product in a French rustic style cream/light beige colour - Garonne Abbey.

Free Help & Advice

If you would like any advice or help regarding Tanners Mill and paving for traditional/antique projects, please don’t hesitate to give our team a call or drop us a line.

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 40 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) Half Pack 20 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) 1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip)
No. of Pieces 40 20 1
Pack Coverage (m²) 9.37 4.68 0.02
Range Premium Concrete Premium Concrete Premium Concrete
Prod Type Concrete Paving Slabs Concrete Paving Slabs Sample
Material Concrete Concrete Concrete
Finish Light Textured Light Textured Light Textured
Finish (Edge) Tapered / rounded Tapered / rounded Tapered / rounded
Colour Grey Grey Light Grey
Colour Group Grey Grey Grey
Dimension (W) Varies Varies 200
Dimension (H) Varies Varies 100
Dimension (D) 30 30 30
Interior / Exterior Exterior Exterior Exterior
Pack Contents C/PACK H/PACK Sample
Pack Sold As Contractor Pack Half Pack Sample
Pack Description

600 x 600 Qty 10
600 x 450 Qty 10
600 x 300 Qty 12
300 x 300 Qty 8

600 x 600 Qty 5
600 x 450 Qty 5
600 x 300 Qty 6
300 x 300 Qty 4

1 x sample
Pieces Description Paving Slabs Paving Slabs sample

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