Hard Landscape for New House – using reject bricks (0910)

Plain paving supplied by developer Antler Homes has been reused and blended with Rejects of Ketley Staffordshire Solid Blue clay bricks. These Rejects provide innovative solutions as well as colour and material contrast.

The rejected bricks suffer from colour variation from blue to violet to red, variation is accommodated in the length of the route/path paving cut into the lawn.

Selected blue bricks have been used to contrast with the buff paving in the patio area or provide a solider course under the Indian stone circle.

Some reject bricks were banana shaped. These have been used to make a camber in the route/path paving and to form an arched-on-plan step up to the stone circle.

The route path paving is laid on sand with a geotextile base substrate on the residual soil.
The tartan grid pattern of the patio uses selected blue bricks in a basket weave (spaced 10mm) laid on 1:4 sand cement first and then in-filled with alternating-rotation half paving stones 600×300 in to 910×910 gaps. The centre of these rose paving rotations also has selected blue brick cut and placed in matching rotations as an infill to the 300×300 square.

These are un-spaced to give solid colour and are only laid on sand.

(see also funicular shed)