Rustic Blend (18mm Calibrated) - Riven Indian Sandstone Patio Paving Slabs

Introducing Rustic Blend Riven Indian Sandstone Paving, a warm and rich coloured blend of natural stone, carefully quarried, hewn and selected to produce these excellent patio stones. With hand-cut fettled edges and a natural riven stone surface, these sandstone pavers extol nature's inherent beauty. The hewn stone has naturally occurring patterns from the sandstones bedding planes, creating a stunning tapestry for your patio and garden paving.

This mixed size 600-series patio paving boasts a wonderful blend of warm natural coloured sandstone, featuring tan, umber, ochre, sienna, saffron, amber, and hazel colour variations. They have been calibrated to an 18 mm depth to aid laying, so they are uniformly the same thickness. There are four sizes of paving stone in each pack (900x 600 mm, 600 x 600 mm, 600 x 290 mm and 290 x 290 mm) which are designed to be laid in a traditional opus pattern.

Transform your outdoor space with the timeless beauty and natural allure of this exquisite natural paving, perfect for creating a warm, inviting and rustic atmosphere in any setting.

Key features

• Patio Paving - These natural sandstone slabs are ideal for garden patios and terrace paving
• Styling - the riven and fettled pavers are ideal for cottage gardens, traditional or rustic property settings
• Variety - Rustic Blend sandstone has variations in colour and patterningeach flagstone is unique
• Versatile - These sandstone pavers come in four different sizes, offering great versatility
• Durable - Sandstone is hard-wearing and long-lasting, and it is easy to clean and maintain
• Stability - sandstone is less prone to thermal expansion/contraction cracks than concrete
• Price - Blended Sandstone is great value of money and cheaper than many concrete alternates
• Provenance - Sustainably sourced and ethically quarried under the ETI Base Code.
• Colour / Pattern - natural sedimentary patterned stone characterised by tan, umber, ochre, sienna, saffron, amber and hazel colour variations

Rustic Blend Sandstone Paving

Pavestone's Rustic Blend paving offers a stunning mix of colours and textures, creating a captivating visual appeal that complements any outdoor setting. Whether you're looking to create a traditional cottage garden retreat or a modern urban oasis, this versatile paving solution provides the perfect foundation for your outdoor living space.

Rustic Blend Colour Palette

Embrace the beauty of nature with our Rustic Blend palette, featuring a harmonious blend of browns and tans. From warm sienna, ochre and auburn tones to rich russet, umber, mahogany, rust and copper hues, alongside subtle saffron and hazel shades, each stone boasts unique character and charm, adding depth and dimension to your patio design. The rich tapestry of colours will vary as light alters through the day, and hues will become stronger and more vibrant when the stones are wet. This natural variation means your Rustic Blend patio will have an intrinsic charm that is ever-changing and beguiling.

Natural Sandstone

With its riven surface and hand-cut fettled edges, our Rustic Blend sandstone paving showcases the inherent beauty of natural stone. Each slab exhibits distinct patterns and colour variations, creating an authentic and organic look that is naturally harmonious with its environment. This natural aesthetic quality is why sandstone works so well as patio paving, and is so often used in garden design and landscaping.

Patio & Garden Paving

Whether you're revamping your patio, creating a winding garden path, or designing a tranquil seating area, our Rustic Blend paving offers endless possibilities for enhancing your outdoor space. Its mixed-size format allows for creative layouts and patterns, enabling you to customize your design to suit your unique style and preferences.

Durability of Sandstone Paving

Sandstone is renowned for its durability and weather-resistant properties, making it an ideal choice for outdoor paving applications. Our Rustic Blend sandstone paving is designed to withstand the elements, ensuring years of enjoyment and beauty for your outdoor space.

Paving Installation

Installing our Rustic Blend sandstone paving is a straightforward process that can be completed by DIY enthusiasts or professional contractors. Please see our guide on how to lay patio pacing slabs.

Pointing Your Patio

Pointing your patio couldn’t be any easier! Gone are the days of time-consuming traditional pointing with sand and cement. Paving Direct recommends using a ‘Brush in Grout’ such as Pavestone Pointfix.

Pointfix is a two-part jointing compound. One pack contains epoxy resin within the compound and the other epoxy hardener. Mixing and applying Pointfix is much cleaner and easier than traditional sand and cement mortar, as you simply just mix the contents within the tub and brush into the joints.

Pointfix is available to buy in two options. Either as a single tub to get the exact amount needed, or if you are buying our 18.85 or 20.7 m2 contractor packs, then Pointfix contractor packs will give you perfect coverage and save you money.

• Pointfix - Single pack 12kg
• Pointfix - Contractor pack 36kg

Care & Maintenance

To keep your Rustic Blend patio looking its best, we recommend regular cleaning and maintenance. Sweep away debris and dirt, and periodically wash the surface. Sandstone is permeable, which means it is not impervious to spills and weathering. Therefore, to better protect your stone we recommend using a natural stone sealant such as Pavestone Natural Finish Stone Sealer, a water-based impregnator that ensures protection against stains and facilitates everyday maintenance.

The Beauty of Natural Stone

Natural stone means natural variation! Please remember that natural stone paving is a processed natural product and therefore has unique and intrinsic elements, markings, features, patterns, hues and tones within the stone that makes each slab distinct. This is the essential characteristic that natural stone offers and what makes it so special, and why it works so well in landscaping and garden design. Each stone is entirely unique, and within each paving pack there is natural variation of each stone. When these individual unique slabs are blended and laid together, you get a tapestry of harmonious, but different slabs. And this natural relationship between the slabs is what gives stone paving its essential charm and beauty.

If you are looking for more uniformity and control of colours and patterns, then porcelain paving or concrete paving might be more what you want.

Light, Weather & Colouring

Natural stone will appear differently in varied lighting conditions, so in bright sunshine versus cloud your patio will have a different appearance. Likewise, the angle of the sun will also change the appearance of your paving. The biggest difference in appearance will be wet versus dry stone. Stone is porous, and therefore, rainfall will penetrate the stone, making it darker and making colours and pigments in the stone appear more vivid. These changes in the appearance are also part of the character you are buying into when you choose stone paving for your patio. It is a natural product, and it is a dynamic canvas that reflects the weather and lighting conditions as they change.

Laying Advice

To install and lay stone 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 your drainage plan.
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 make sure the patio has a blended look, as pack to pack can vary in hue/colour distribution, so the packs need mixing up to avoid possible colour banding when they are laid.
5. Coat the slabs' underside with priming slurry to improve their bond and help prevent moisture transfer. As stone is porous, priming slurry will help protect the slabs from moisture transfer and capillary action from beneath the slabs.
6. Trowel-in and lay a bedding course of mortar mix (50 mm depth) immediately prior to laying each slab.
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 slabs.
9. Fill the joints between the paving (pointing) with jointing compound.
10. Optional: protect your paving by sealing the slabs with a purpose made sealant (natural finish or colour enhancing).

Care & Maintenance

Stone is a porous material and contains tiny capillaries and micro-fissures throughout its structure. Consequently, stone 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 that will help lift out the dirt and grime.