Block Paving
Laid to pattern with a contrast border and the edges haunched in concrete, so the courses stay true and nothing creeps outward over the years.
Drives, patios and paving across Darlington and County Durham. You get a 14 day cooling off period in writing, a deposit is not always needed, and the men on your drive are our own, never subcontracted.
Everybody in this trade shows you photographs. Very few will put their money terms in front of you before you have even picked up the phone. Here are ours.
Sign with us and you still have a fortnight to change your mind. Not a handshake, an actual cooling off period, written into the paperwork we give you.
On plenty of jobs we do not ask for one at all. Where materials have to be ordered in we will explain exactly why, before you part with anything.
The people who quote the job are the people who build it. Nothing is passed to a gang we have never met, which is how standards slip and nobody answers the phone.
Block paving, resin, tarmac and natural stone patios, domestic and commercial. Whichever finish you choose, the digging out, the sub-base and the edge restraints are done the same way, because that is the part nobody ever sees and the part that decides whether it lasts.
Laid to pattern with a contrast border and the edges haunched in concrete, so the courses stay true and nothing creeps outward over the years.
Natural stone and porcelain slabs laid to a fall on a full mortar bed, with the walling, steps and edging built to match the house.
A seamless permeable surface trowelled over a solid base. No loose stone rattling into the road, no puddles standing on it, no weeds coming through.
Machine laid and rolled hot with a block or kerb edge to finish it. Still the most sensible way to cover a long drive properly.
Plenty of firms average four and a half stars and are perfectly good. A straight 5.0 is different, because it means nobody has had the week where it went wrong: no missed start date, no mess left behind, no phone going unanswered once the money had cleared.
We would rather you read them yourself than take our word for it. Look us up on Google before you ring anybody, us included.
Domestic and commercial, across Darlington and the North East.
Almost every cracked, dipped, weed-split driveway in the North East failed for the same reason, and it is never the blocks. Somebody saved a day on the digging out.
The old surface and the soft ground beneath it come out and go on the wagon. Nothing gets raked to the side and buried under your new drive.
Type 1 stone laid and whacked in layers rather than one thick dump that never properly consolidates. This is the part carrying your car for the next twenty years.
Edge restraints haunched in concrete and the surface water given somewhere legal to go, with channel drains where the fall demands it, before a single block is laid.
Laid, jointed or rolled, kiln dried sand vibrated in, the site swept and the muck taken away. Then we walk the finished job with you before the van moves.
There is a large price gap between the paving on a builders merchant pallet and the ranges below, and it shows up around year five. We will price both honestly and let you choose.
These are the manufacturers whose products we buy and lay. We are also listed on TrustATrader, where our work is independently reviewed.
Domestic driveways and patios, and commercial surfacing for businesses across the region.
We come out, measure up and give you a written price. It costs you nothing either way, and there is no salesman sitting in your kitchen waiting for a signature.
No deposit taken at quote stage, and 14 days to change your mind after you sign.