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Product Summary

Raj Blend Premium Select uncalibrated (17-22 mm) sandstone paving slabs are a very popular and offer a lovely natural colour blend of rosy brown, tans and green/greys with riven surfaces and hand-cut edges.

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Key features

  • Patio Paving - These natural sandstone slabs are ideal for garden patios and terrace paving
  • Styling - the riven and tumbled pavers are ideal for cottage gardens, traditional or rustic property settings
  • Variety - Raj sandstone has variations in colour and patterning, so each flagstone is unique
  • Versatile - These classic sandstone pavers come in four different sizes, with matching circle features available
  • Durable - Sandstone is hardwearing and long lasting, and it is easy to clean and maintain
  • Stability - sandstone is less prone to thermal expansion/contraction cracks than concrete
  • Price - Raj Blend is great value of money and cheaper than many concrete alternates
  • Provenance - Sustainably sourced and ethically quarried under the ETI Base Code.
  • Colour / Pattern - natural sedimentary patterned stone characterised by rosy brown, tan, sienna and grey colour variations
Product details

Raj Blend - Brown, Umber, Ochre, Sienna & Grey Indian Sandstone

The ever popular Raj Blend is a combination of brown and grey hues that make a wonderful neutral toned vista for any garden patio. This colour blend works with a wide variety of house styles and materials, because its natural hues complement and harmoniously support many surroundings. So, this explains why this neutral colour palette continues to prove to be so popular with homeowners, landscapers, architects and garden designers.

Natural Sandstone

Part of the character of natural sandstone paving is that no two stones are coloured or patterned the same. So, when combined they create a rich blend of colours, tones and patterns to make a beautiful overall tapestry for your patio. Likewise, because these paving slabs have been hewn and riven from quarried stone and then cut by hand, their finish and edges are also unique, giving them a natural and individual character.

Patio Paving

Raj Blend is ideal for patios and garden paving - its colouration, stability and tactile feel underfoot means it is perfect for outdoor living areas where the family can get together to enjoy the garden and sunshine! Whether your garden needs a large terrace or patio, or a small seating area tucked into the nook of a wall, these versatile patio pavers have the right combinations of sizes and formats to meet your needs.

Size-Formats & Pack Options

Raj Blend Premium Select (uncalibrated) is offered in four paving slab size-formats and sold in six different pack options:

  • Contractor Pack (Mixed Sizes) - 64 Piece
  • Mini Pack (Mixed Sizes) - 16 Piece

Pointing your patio

Pointing your patio couldn’t be any easier! Gone are the days of time-consuming traditional pointing with sand and cement. Paving Direct recommends using a ‘Brush in Grout’ such as Pavestone Pointfix.

Pointfix is a two-part jointing compound. One pack contains epoxy resin within the compound and the other epoxy hardener. Mixing and applying Pointfix is much cleaner and easier than traditional sand and cement mortar, as you simply just mix the contents within the tub and brush into the joints.

Pointfix is available to buy in two options. Either as a single tub to get the exact amount needed, or if you are buying our 19.5 m2 contractor packs, then Pointfix contractor packs will give you perfect coverage and save you money.

Circle Features

In addition to the standard paving packs, Raj Blend is also available in three sizes of Circle Feature Kits and their corresponding Squaring Off Kits - please see the related products for details.

Uncalibrated

Raj Blend comes in two varieties. Calibrated and Uncalibrated. Whether you chose Calibrated or uncalibrated, the appearance of the slabs will be the same. The difference is the thickness/depth of the product.

These paving slabs have not been through a calibration process. Therefore, the slabs vary in thickness between 17mm and 22mm. This is why this style of product is slightly cheaper than the calibrated version. Uncalibrated slabs are ideal if you are working to a budget, and/or you aren't worried about your project taking slightly longer to lay.

Colour Blends

Seasonal changes can often bring a differing perspective to the reflected colours of the stone. In strong summer sunlight, a sandstone patio will appear to have less colour variation, whilst after rain, the colours will have a deep patina.

Unique Patterning

As with any natural product, be aware variation is normal and to be expected. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock, which means it was created on the seabed floor as numerous layers of sand were laid down and compressed over many millions of years. This process by means the stone has patterning and veins where different colour sands laid down and blended to form this rock.

Colours, tones and patterns vary naturally and that is precisely what you are buying when you select these natural products. These are not carbon copy stone slabs, but each is unique, with their own natural character. And that is the beauty a natural stone patio should present to you.

Indian Sandstone

These pavers are quarried from the highest quality India sandstone, where our expert quarrymen select and cut this tried and tested stone. With their years of experience, our masons cut and shape the stone to exacting standards, so you can be assured you are getting the highest standard paving in each pack.

Best Seller

Raj Blend Uncalibrated is one of our most popular products. Offering a great balance between aesthetic quality, colour choice, performance, durability and price, it is understandable why so my people chose this paving.

Care & Maintenance

Sandstone is permeable, which means it is not impervious to spills and weathering. Therefore, to better protect your stone, we recommend using a natural stone sealant water-based impregnator that ensures protection against stains and facilitates everyday maintenance.

The Beauty of Natural Stone

Natural stone means natural variation! Please remember that natural stone paving is a processed natural product and therefore has unique and intrinsic elements, markings, features, patterns, hues and tones within the stone that makes each slab distinct. This is the essential characteristic that natural stone offers and what makes it so special, and why it works so well in landscaping and garden design. Each stone is entirely unique, and within each paving pack there is natural variation of each stone. When these individual unique slabs are blended and laid together, you get a tapestry of harmonious, but different slabs. And this natural relationship between the slabs is what gives stone paving its essential charm and beauty.

If you are looking for more uniformity and control of colours and patterns, then porcelain paving or concrete paving might be more what you want.

Light, Weather & Colouring

Natural stone will appear differently in varied lighting conditions, so in bright sunshine versus cloud your patio will have a different appearance. Likewise, the angle of the sun will also change the appearance of your paving. The biggest difference in appearance will be wet versus dry stone. Stone is porous, and therefore, rainfall will penetrate the stone, making it darker and making colours and pigments in the stone appear more vivid. These changes in the appearance are also part of the character you are buying into when you choose stone paving for your patio. It is a natural product, and it is a dynamic canvas that reflects the weather and lighting conditions as they change.

Laying Advice

To install and lay stone patio paving slabs, you'll need to do the following steps:

  1. Measure up and mark out your patio - ensure you calculate both 1) area in square metres (m2)  and 2) the fall (slope) required for your drainage plan.
  2. Dig out the patio area to create the substrate (220 -230 mm depth).
  3. Lay the sub-base of MOT Type-1 hardcore (compacted & 150 mm depth).
  4. Ensure you mix and blend the various paving packs to make sure the patio has a blended look, as pack to pack can vary in hue/colour distribution, so the packs need mixing up to avoid possible colour banding when they are laid.
  5. Coat the slabs' underside with priming slurry to improve their bond and help prevent moisture transfer. As stone is porous, priming slurry will help protect the slabs from moisture transfer and capillary action from beneath the slabs.
  6. Trowel-in and lay a bedding course of mortar mix (50 mm depth) immediately prior to laying each slab.
  7. Lay the paving slabs on to the mortar bed and tamp down. Ensure you leave the desired joint spacing between the slabs and the slabs are “level” to the fall.
  8. Leave to set for 24 hours, so the mortar mix can cure enough for you to walk on the slabs.
  9. Fill the joints between the paving (pointing) with jointing compound.
  10. Optional: protect your paving by sealing the slabs with a purpose made sealant (natural finish or colour enhancing).

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.

For the full step-by-step guide with videos for each step, see our How to Lay Patio Paving Slabs article.

Care & Maintenance

Stone is a porous material and contains tiny capillaries and micro-fissures throughout its structure. Consequently, stone paving is susceptible to water-based chemical erosion (acidic corrosion), physical erosion (frost action), and from staining from waterborne grime, salts and other mineral and particulate deposits. Therefore, as the UK has high winter humidity (generally 80-90%) and damp conditions are the norm, we recommend that you help protect and elongate the life of your paving by sealing the slabs against the water/damp based issues. Our impregnating sealers are designed to enter the capillaries and micro-fissures in the slabs, blocking those spaces to prevent water entering the paving.

  1. Natural finish sealer
  2. Colour enhancing sealer

In addition to sealing the slabs, we recommend ensuring you brush away leaves, dirt and other detritus regularly, especially in the autumn and winter when leaves, twigs, seeds and other windfall materials are likely to fall on your patio. If left on your paving, especially if damp, and worse still, allowed to rot down and become mulch-like, your paving will almost certainly acquire brown stains from the release of tannins from the windfall materials (think a used tea bag left on a kitchen counter for a model of what will happen).

As well as brushing off dirt and windfall materials, give your patio a hose down with water every so often. Use a low-pressure hose or keep any jet-wash far enough away from the slabs to ensure you don't damage them with the high-pressure water jet. For more stubborn stains and the build-up of grime, we recommend using a specialist non-acidic patio cleaner that will help lift out the dirt and grime.

Specifications
  Mini Pack 16 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) 1 x Sample (200 x 100 mm Slip) Contractor Pack 64 Pieces (Mixed Sizes) Single Size Pack 35 Pieces (600 x 600 x 17-22 mm)
No. of Pieces 16 1 64 35
Pack Coverage (m²) 4.7 0.02 19.5 12.82
Range Classic Indian Sandstone Paving Classic Indian Sandstone Classic Sandstone - Premium Select
Prod Type Stone Paving Slabs Sample Stone Paving Slabs Stone Paving Slabs
Material Sandstone Sandstone Sandstone Sandstone
Finish Riven N/A Riven Riven
Finish (Edge) Hand Cut N/A Hand Cut Hand Cut
Colour Brown N/A Brown Brown
Colour Group Brown Brown Brown
Dimension (W) Varies 200 Varies 600
Dimension (H) Varies 100 Varies 600
Dimension (D) 17- 22 17-22 17-22
Interior / Exterior Exterior / Interior Exterior Exterior / Interior Exterior / Interior
Pack Contents M/PACK Sample C/PACK (64 Piece) 600 x 600
Pack Sold As Mini Pack Sample Contractor Pack Single Size Pack
Pack Description

900 x 600 Qty 4
600 x 600 Qty 4
600 x 290 Qty 4
290 x 290 Qty 4

1 x sample

  • 900 x 600 Qty 16
  • 600 x 600 Qty 16
  • 600 x 290 Qty 18
  • 290 x 290 Qty 14

600 x 600 Qty 35

Pieces Description Paving Slabs sample Paving Slabs Paving Slabs
Flexural Strength (MPa) 34.8 34.8 34.8
Frost Resistance (MPa) 32.8 32.8 32.8
Compressive Strength (kg/cm²) 565.4 565.4 565.4
Skid/Slip Resistance - Dry 74 74 74
Skid/Slip Resistance - Wet 60 60 60
Durability/Abrasion Resistance (mm) 6.2 6.2 6.2
Water Absorption (%) 4.2 4.2 4.2

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