How Good Are You At Choosing Paving Material?

What exactly is paving? The process of paving is basically building an outdoor superficial flooring or surface covering, which serves as an extension of sorts. This is basically done to add value to that particular portion of your house, garden or patio to ensure it looks good and its market value goes up.

To serve the process of paving appropriately, there are numerous materials available, namely concrete, asphalt and stones such as cobblestones also known as paving cobbles, tiles which are more commonly known as paving tiles, bricks, flagstone, setts and artificial stone and paving circles.

It all comes down to your personal choice. What would you like to use to pave your garden or your patio? Are you fond of paving tiles? If you have a creative nature, perhaps you would prefer paving circles or paving cobbles. Or perhaps you would like to explore a few options that have been given below.

Sandstone: This stone costs lesser and is available in a wide variety of colors and patterns. It can be laid out on a concrete slab with a mortar base. You can also use a diamond blade to cut it. There is a flip side. That is its proclivity to assimilate dirt and grime easily. Also, it is porous. But this can be dealt with. Applying a quality paving sealer is the perfect solution to this problem.

Blue Stone: This stone falls in the price band of medium to high and is generally available in three grades which would be natural, semi honed and honed. The natural grade is greyish/bluish and has a no polished face. The semi honed grade features a small amount of dark grey polishing. The black colored honed grade is the most polished one. Similar to sandstone, bluestone too ought to be laid out on a concrete slab with mortar base. The Ashlar pattern is the most common pattern to acquire bluestone.

Concrete: Concrete has the highest availability among all in terms of sizes, colors and patterns. Budget varies depending on the kind of quality you opt for. The stone is easy to cut, can be laid