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The beauty of Natural stone
There's no paving finer than natural stone; it's been used for thousands of years and represents one of man's earliest technologies - the ability to make a traversable pathway. It will outlast all of us, every unit is unique, it's a natural product with texture and colour determined by millennia of geological processes rather than modern chemical dyes, it's incredibly strong, hard-wearing and if all that wasn't enough, it's also beautiful.
There are three main categories of pavers that are available in the paver materials market.
- Natural Stone Pavers
- Concrete Pavers
- Brick Pavers
The differences between these paver categories needs to be understood up front by every person that is seeking to install pavers at their property.
Essentially, Natural Stone pavers are found already existing in the earth and have been formed by natural forces during millions of years
Why? Because the underlying differences between these 3 main categories of pavers has a vital bearing upon such important issues as applications, cost, design, installation procedures, technical standards and more.
Natural Stone pavers are obtained either by being mined at a natural stone deposit, called a quarry, or collected from a rock outcrop. Natural Stone pavers are not made by humans and are not manufactured in terms of being fired at a manufacturing plant.
Whereas, Concrete and Brick pavers are made in short period of time by industry professionals via a technical procedure involving mixing raw materials and firing at extreme temperatures at the manufacturer’s plant.