Bourton Cream Porcelain Paving Slabs are stone-effect outdoor garden tiles with a subtle light riven ripple textured surface that provides a wonderful natural stone like finish similar to limestone.The 600 x 600 x 20 mm porcelain slabs are one of three available sizes:
The colouring is a warm, light creamy buff / ivory with a faint dappled clastic like pattern reminiscent of natural stone.
See Full DescriptionBourton Cream Porcelain Paving Slabs are stone-effect outdoor garden tiles with a subtle light riven ripple textured surface that provides a wonderful natural stone like finish similar to limestone.The 600 x 600 x 20 mm porcelain slabs are one of three available sizes:
The colouring is a warm, light creamy buff / ivory with a faint dappled clastic like pattern reminiscent of natural stone.
See Full DescriptionThe Bourton Porcelain Paving range has been designed to provide a unified stone-effect colour-scheme/pattern available in three complementary sizes. The 1200 x 600 mm, 900 x 600 mm and 600 x 600 mm slabs can be laid together (offering a more disrupted laying pattern with variable lengths) or individually as a single size paving installation.
Bourton Porcelain Paving has a subtle and light ripple-textured surface akin to the light riven finish one finds on natural limestone paving. This gives these slabs a beautiful tactile feel that wonderfully mimics natural stone and provides relief on the surface that catches the light, enhancing the stone-effect.
The design on these slabs also mimics natural stone, using light colour variation to appear like clastic structures found in many natural stones such as quartzite and limestone. There are also hints of bedding plane patterns and striations to enhance the natural geological appearance one sees in stone.
Bourton Porcelain Paving is available in three size options:
The smaller format of these 600 x 600 mm paving slabs offers few advantages. Firstly, they are easier to lay. Being smaller, means they are easier to move and manipulate when laying them. Secondly, their smaller format means they are ideal for creating narrower strips of paving, such as pathways and stepping stone paths around the garden. Lastly, if you prefer a stack bond laying pattern where all the tiles are aligned vertically and horizontally, then the square format of 600 x 600 mm slabs makes them ideal for pulling off this more "ordered" aesthetic.
Porcelain paving is specifically designed for outdoor use and has an R11 anti-slip rating, meaning it generally has better slip-resistance than natural stone or concrete paving products. Porcelain paving is also waterproof and non-porous, so dirt, grime and stains cannot penetrate the paving and can be easily washed off. Likewise, moisture and chemical solutions cannot penetrate the material, so frost damage and chemical erosion within the structure of the material do not occur.
These porcelain slabs can be used for a range of garden hard landscaping applications, as paving, coping and seating:
Garden Patio / Terrace Paving - these slabs are ideal for patio paving and creating different paved terraces in gardens with elevation. For patios and terraces, consider both stretcher bond and stack bond laying patterns to suit your garden style.
Pathways / Stepping Stones - these slabs are ideal for garden paths and to create stepping stones routes through the garden. Their smaller format means they can be more easily manipulated to the topography of your garden when creating a path.
Steps - where you have changes in elevation, and you want to link your paved terraces/patios, then these slabs can be used to create your steps. You made need to cut them down depending on the depth of your treads.
Coping - these slabs can be laid on top of retaining walls, low walls, half-walls, parapets, dwarf walls, pony walls and knee walls as coping. This will often also create seating around the garden. In higher walls, consider a rebate or nook using a slab to create an alcove/recess seat.
Porcelain Paving has many advantages over standard natural quarried stones or concrete paving. These include the following:
Porcelain Paving vs Natural Stone Paving
Porcelain paving ticks all the boxes. The material quality, improved performance characteristics, extended longevity, and lower maintenance/upkeep of porcelain paving significantly lowers lifetime-costs for any garden patio paving when compared to natural stone or concrete paving.
Porcelain will outlive all other types of stone, which will save you money in the long run; especially as typically, the slabs only account for 20-30% of the initial cost of laying a new patio installation. If kept well maintained, your porcelain patio will still look brand new in 10 years time. You simply can’t put a price on slabs of this quality when looking at the long-term (10 years plus) solution for your garden. Because porcelain exterior tiles are vitrified (glass-like) and the material is a solid homogeneous slab, it is waterproof and impervious. This means that dirt and grime, algae and lichen cannot penetrate and get in the material of these paving slabs. This makes keeping them clean and maintaining them much easier. Simply brush off leaves and detritus and wash with warm soapy water.
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Porcelain paving uses printed designs on the surface of the slab to create the patterns. Each pack will typically contain a variety of tile designs to ensure sufficient visual variation when you lay them. To ensure you do not lay matching patterns adjacent to one another and to ensure the blend/mix looks more varied, we advise inspecting the slabs prior to installation and determining your laying pattern. This ensures that the overall desired hue/pattern is achieved and evens out any slight colour discrepancies when laying more than one pack. Laying your patio one pallet at a time can lead to slight but visible colour banding.
Porcelain paving is non-porous and, therefore, requires a Slurry Primer to ensure it bonds properly with the bedding mortar. The priming slurry should be applied to the underside of each paving tile just prior to laying. Please refer to the laying instructions if in any doubt.
A flexible Jointing Grout should be used, and care must be taken not to let it dry on the surface of the tile. We recommend applying a protective sealant to your porcelain tiles to help prevent marking from grout residue (Porcelain Tile Protector).
To install and lay porcelain patio paving slabs, you'll need to do the following steps:
To calculate the areas of paving in square-metres (m2), the amount of sub-base hardcore or the amount of sand and cement you'll need for the mortar mix bedding course, please refer to our paving calculators.
Step-by-Step Patio Installation Guide
Please see our step-by-step installation guide, which includes videos for all the key steps - How to lay a patio.
If you require any additional information on laying our porcelain, please give us a call on 01993 608 824 and speak to our dedicated expert paving team.
Because porcelain paving is non-porous, many of the issues that arise with concrete and natural stone paving, do not occur with porcelain outdoor tiles. Walked-on dirt and grime and washed-on soluble grime and dirt are almost guaranteed on every patio. With porcelain paving slabs, this dirt and grime is largely superficial and sitting on the surface, as it cannot penetrate the vitrified homogeneous porcelain tile. Therefore, most of this build up of grime can be dealt with by brushing down your porcelain patio with yard brush and warm soapy water, and rinsing off with a garden hose.
There will inevitably be windblown or falling detritus and organic material such as leaves, twigs, nuts, seeds and grass cuttings that come to settle on your patio. These can transfer a contact stain when they are wet/damp of natural tannin pigments (akin to a tea stain) that will leave brown marks on your slab. Obviously, the first solution is to regularly sweep off any organic material that settles on your porcelain patio. However, should the paving become stained with tannins, then Pavestone Porcelain Patio Cleaner is recommended to help remove these blemishes.
Full Pack - 600 x 600 x 20 mm (64 Pieces) | 1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip) | Mini Pack - 600 x 600 x 20 mm (16 Pieces) | |
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No. of Pieces | 64 | 1 | 16 |
Pack Coverage (m²) | 23.04 | 0.02 | 5.76 |
Range | Bourton Range | Paving | Bourton Range |
Prod Type | Porcelain Paving Slabs | Sample | Porcelain Paving Slabs |
Material | Porcelain | Porcelain | Porcelain |
Finish | Light Riven | Light Textured | Light Riven |
Finish (Edge) | Sawn / Straight | Sawn / Straight | Sawn / Straight |
Colour | Light Golden | Light Golden | Light Golden |
Colour Group | Buff | Buff | Buff |
Dimension (W) | 600 | 200 | 600 |
Dimension (H) | 600 | 100 | 600 |
Dimension (D) | 20 | 20 | |
Interior / Exterior | Exterior | Exterior | Exterior |
Pack Contents | 600 x 600 x 20 | Sample | M/PACK Single Size |
Pack Sold As | Single Size Pack | Sample | Mini Pack |
Pack Description |
600 x 600 mm Qty 64 |
1 x sample |
600 x 600 mm Qty 16 |
Pieces Description | Paving Slabs | sample | Paving Slabs |
Usually replenished within days