Porcelain Cobbles/Setts allow you to create the designs and patterns you want with ease – combining these setts with porcelain slabs to give you consistent high-performance and beautiful paving across your patio, paths and seating areas.
Porcelain Cobbles/Setts were created to allow homeowners and landscapers to easily add design elements to their porcelain patios without all the unnecessary cutting down from larger slabs.
They are available in Four colours – Anthracite (dark grey), Country Griss (dark grey), Kandla Grey (light grey) and London Beige (beige, believe it or not!).
They are ideal for borders and picture framing of patios, adding key lines and visual breaks in paving areas. These porcelain setts are only available in 100mm x 100mm
These porcelain setts have a honed stone-effect finish. As with all our porcelain paving, these have been designed for exterior use, and therefore, have slip-resistance built-in as part of the manufacturing process to provide anti-slip performance superior to most stone and concrete paving.
As with traditional setts, these pavers are ideal for creating contrasting borders, edge course designs, patterns and motifs, and provide functional boundary demarcators or separators between different paving areas.
Setts are ideal when paving garden paths. Their small format allows them to be manipulated and orientated to the direction of the path without lots of complicated cutting – so the path can snake and bend to the needs of your landscape. Porcelain setts will provide the visual aesthetic of a traditional dressed block path, but with the improved performance and maintenance properties of this advanced paving material.
Vehicles are heavy, and their weight means when driven on a driveway surface, any paving, is subject to significant loads. To counteract this, driveway paving requires enough flexural strength so ensure it does not crack or shear under bending loads. This means that driveway blocks have traditionally used a small format paver (to reduce point bending loads) and they are typically thicker than patio paving, usually between 40-80 mm.
The strength of porcelain paving combined with the smaller format of these setts means that these 20 mm thick pavers have sufficient flexural strength to be used for driveway paving. As with stone setts and cobblestone driveway installations, these setts would need to be laid on a full mortar bed over a sub-base of compacted MOT Type-1 hardcore – at least 150 mm for a driveway, depending on the substrate / local soil composition.
Porcelain paving offers improved performance over concrete and natural stone paving in a number of areas:
When you combine these setts with porcelain slabs, you’ll have all these advantages for your entire patio.
Because porcelain paving is vitrified (like glass) this means it is impermeable and waterproof. So all the grime, gunk and strains that can impregnant traditional stone and concreter pavers is kept on the service, making cleaning and maintenance much easier. In most cases, you can clean porcelain paving with soapy water, a brush and a hose!
