Tobermore / Origin Paving offer an exciting range of paving materials & we are finding their Tegula range to be very popular with it's vast range of colours, superb durability & very long manufacturers guarantee.

For our regular block paving work we use Tobermore, Marshalls & Bradstone 60mm thick blocks.

Once the existing driveway has been excavated we install a Polyfelt geotextile membrane as a separation layer to prevent intrusion of weeds etc. into the drive from below. It also has the added benefit of further strengthening the driveway by distributing the load of a vehicle. Our block paved driveways are laid on an MOT bed of between 50 & 100mm thick, depending upon existing ground conditions. This layer is compacted with our 150kg 25kN Wacker. Next, an approx. 50mm thick bed of zone 2 grit sand compacted with our smaller Wacker or Belle Dual Force PC400 then screeded to the correct level for paving. We don't use little soil compactors for the sub-base!

The paving is installed & cut in accordingly. When complete, the drive is compacted with kiln dried sand swept into the joints to provide a strong, durable surface able to withstand the everyday requirements of a driveway. Once the excess sand is swept away a bonding agent is applied to the drive in order to bind the fine particles of kild dried sand together, further enhancing the strength of the drive.

The open edges of our driveways are retained using concrete to hold either the perimeter of the blocks or some form of edging block such as KS & KL kerbs or concrete edgings.

The edgings are laid on concrete and haunched with concrete to form a single solid cradle. It's a highly important aspect of a block paved driveway that is often overlooked by other teams - without it the blocks will move with the repeated movement of traffic.