Would you be happy with this?

jaggyjim

twopenny said:

Your first photo looks like mine. 20yrs old and hardly used.
Your second doesn't look like any of the recent blocks I've bought for something else. 
I've not seen the even colour that you have in the second. So it's possible that if you had the drive relaid you may find that it appears as the one you are worried about. Or you will have to source the even colour.
I'd have a word with the builders and say it really bothers you. They are in the best position to give you alternatives. If they try to fob you off you'll know but what they say may be interesting.
But you need to think that this is very personal to you. My friends wouldn't be concerned or notice, neither would I. But if it really worries you you need to get it right.

Thank you for the reply. I will speak to them when they are back on monday. I just dont know how it can be resolved though. I think the bLocks now look as though they have aged 30yrs…. Im so disappointed

Jeepers_Creepers

How many blocks are affected, Jaggly?

An option might be to buy identical blocks - if available, and if a close enough match - and to put them somewhere less obvious (is there a place?), and use the ones removed from there to replace the 'damaged' ones.

EssexExile

I'd leave it over the winter and see what it looks like in the spring. If you're still not happy I'd get the whole lot pressure washed to make it uniform.

Be practical, nothing anyone does is going to return it to exactly the way it was.

chrisw

Mine have been down around 20 years. Most of them look like your picture 1 but where the bins have been kept and also where the cars have been parked to some extent, look like your picture 2.

Presumably the top cement weathers off exposing the aggregate, yours has been accelerated by the pressure washer.