Paving slabs .........................

[rsmuppet]

After battling to sort a mulitiude of issues caused by someone's previous **** up under the patio at home im relaying the flag's but finding a short fall .Can't seem to find any 600mmX600mm reclaimed flag's in cheshire for love nor money . didn't really want to buy new as they just don't have the same look as old one's . anyone got an idea where i can go looking for some ? .Not something ive ever had to trackdown before so i've come to a bit of a dead end after trying the local BnQ and the like's and building supplier's (who looked at me like a was a little backward and then tried to sell my a pallet of new ones ) sorry for the rambling's

[pgkevet]

Obviously you've punted around the reclamation yards. Perhaps chat to some small garden co's to see if they have a yard of spares..OR if you haventl got too far then buy soem new one's of a different colour (Wicks) and dot them in amongst the ones you have...make a feature of the oddity?
EDit: another thought... leave some gaps and make upa cement mix and pop round stones for squares of old fashioned cobble?

[Skipper Billy]

If you dont get sorted and have to use new ones then tip large tubs of yoghurt on them - rub it in with a sweeping brush and cover the area with polythene for a few days. After a week or so remove the polythene and then just leave it - dont clean or sweep them just let nature do its thing. In a month or so they will look 20 years old.

[rsmuppet]

PGK thank's for the ldea's i hadn't thought of reclamation yard's , there's a few quite close so i'll go pestering them tomorrow. I did think about putting different colour's in but the missus turned her nose up at it .

Billy how on earth did you find out how to do that ? :) , Although if my hunting around tomorrow turn's up no joy then i'll be having a bash at

Thank you both for your help :)

[Johnda]

Al, Try Willow pool reclamation yard in Lymm also cheshire brick & slate

[pgkevet]

The old yoghurt and mud method for aging garden statuary and getting moss growing on it always struck me as bizarre.. when the old stuff was first put in it was new!..and probably had the servant cleaning it every week. Comes up quite nicely with bleach :-)

[Mslater]

[QUOTE=Johnda;634870]Al, Try Willow pool reclamation yard in Lymm also cheshire brick & slate[/QUOTE]

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