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crazy paving

I live in the south east area, just outside London and have been trying to find a place in either s e london or kent that sells crazy paving, or somewhere online which delivers. Any information would be great.

thank you.
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  • adaze
    adaze Posts: 623 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    :eek: Crazy Paving.. Eek!

    Can't you make your own from old slabs, just break them up into bits? Could try your local tip?
  • jules1964 wrote: »
    I live in the south east area, just outside London and have been trying to find a place in either s e london or kent that sells crazy paving, or somewhere online which delivers. Any information would be great.

    thank you.

    Good afternoon: an excellent paving website with links to suppliers.

    HTH

    Canucklehead
    Ask to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    most councils sell it off cheap. due to replacing all those broken paving slabs, and brought back to the depot.

    and its free on freecycle.
    Get some gorm.
  • i take it you know its not all its cracked up to be? ( sorry i coulnt help myself)
  • We did our crazy paving ourselves using broken up paving slabs from a path we had taken up. Takes a lot of effort to get it level tho. Not worth the effort and now we regret doing it years later as it looks so dated and naff TBH. If I was you I'd lay down normal slabs or something else. Once crazy paving down hard to dig up I imagine as it needs to be concreted together which is just another expense whereas slabbing you just need sand to bed slabs down on.
  • wallbash
    wallbash Posts: 17,775 Forumite
    Done correctly crazy paving will look good for years and is very hard wearing.
    But its not a cheap alternative to slabs , the labour costs are high.
  • Oh yes labour costs certainly are high,,ours had my blood and sweat! It's really hard work to get even especially if the slabs are all different thicknesses as ours were. I must say though it saved us lots of money on getting rid of our old slabs and paying for a new patio. Recycling at it's best, we even got the sand by digging it from local scrubland naughty but free!
  • HTH

    Canucklehead[/QUOTE]

    Hi there, so glad I found this, I have been searching for hours for a supply of crazy paving and can't find what i want. unfortunately I can't see any looking on at the link you recommend either. we need a lot to cover a large area, any more help would be appreciated
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