Paving The Way

DO THE GROUNDWORK BEFORE YOU SET THINGS IN STONE, BRICK OR CONCRETE

Sadly, there’s nothing with which you can cover up the ground that won’t cause you grief one way or another, which may be why there are now so very many types of paving available.

The options are expanding as we speak, with new choices of materials, colours, textures and designs. You can have solid concrete, concrete pavers, exposed aggregate concrete, concrete pavers with shells and coloured stones embedded in them, asphalt, tiles, old bricks, new bricks, cobblestones, decking, timber boardwalks, gravel, chip, crushed shell, crushed limestone and tiny stones from places on the West Coast with unpronounceable names. None that I’ve ever seen come with a guaranteed built-in stain resistance.