Patio...

[madpugger]

Guys, I am looking at sorting the mess I call a garden soon. I intend to have decking and black/dark grey slate slabs. I'd ideally like the slate slabs to match the slate that will be going in the house...

Anyone know a good place to get said slabs / indoor floor tiles cheap?!

[S-Express]

you need some composite decking - available in grey and black (and other colours)...
no maintenance 25 yr g'tee doesn't look like plastic crap.
I know the owner quite well - could probably get you an S2 Forum discount....

https://www.ecodek.co.uk

[madpugger]

Excellent cheers, I want normal wood colour decking, but I assume they do that, will check it out

[istoo]

try the bloody big quarries where we live! Tom Forrest @ inverurie, Fyvie etc. ADC have a stock of granite causies as well for sale to joe public (not businesses) if you have a period house that may suit it well. How big an area have you got to cover and what sort of price are you looking for? Not quite sure where you live either (Grampian i know)
Caithness Flagstone might be a good choice, i can sometimes get that at significantly reduced prices, usually when i have no money.

[madpugger]

Trouble is, there ain't much slate in quarries round us! Caithness flagstone may be an option, I will have to look at that, but mostly it is quite light coloured?

The area? I dunno, maybe 30 or 40 M^2

I am the other side of Inverurie to you, oot the Banff road.

[Donsider]

Flagstones.

https://www.caithnessstoneindustries.com/

Dealt with them before,very reasonably priced and delivered to my house in the rurie.
Believe they are supplying stone for the new council HQ in Aberdeen,so they will be regulary in the area.

Cheers,Mike.

[istoo]

There you go a good link from Mike. Caithness flag ages really well, it may look like concrete when it goes down but the colours come out after 2-3 years. Its so prolific as a material in Caithness that some walls are made with the slabs shoved into the ground!


another mike, i forgot your userid on here, in answer to a question from a few months ago.

http://www.castleparkautobody-ellon.co.uk/

They are a very good autobody shop, deal with a lot of supercars/ classics.

[madpugger]

Cheers guys, Caithness stone looks good, but really I want slate, almost black, slabs. I am going to put slate floors in the house too, so would like it to match inside and out...

[istoo]

it can be very dark as well Mike.

[GazzaG60]

surely they wont miss a few of those "Wall slabs"

or if not im sure RBS owe you some of theres.

[madpugger]

Is there anything they don't do?

Just been sent this!

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-6805.aspx

[GazzaG60]

tesco use 3rd parties.

for example tesco, next, tops tiles and some other bathroom websites are all run by Mark2 in Bolton.