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Laying instructions for paving stones, slabs, green-able lawn lattice stones and soakawaypaving stones

General information

Colour and structure differencesConcrete products are made from natural aggregates. It is therefore only logical that our products can usually exhibit very small differences in colour and structure - for example, due to the inherent colour of the cement. Even with the most careful production, colour and structure variations cannot be completely avoided. Our tip: Lay from several pallets at the same time to achieve an even, natural appearance!

Dimensional deviations Our concrete products are manufactured in state-of-the-art production facilities. Nevertheless, minimal dimensional deviations can always occur, they are also permissible according to European standards and generally play no role during installation. By the way: Differences in the height of the stone are easily compensated by shaking or knocking into the bed of chippings.

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4. Pavement / SlabsBe creative - and let us advise you: Different formats, colours and surfaces result in an individual design for your surface design. An important task is the filling of the joints. It fixes the stones and helps to transfer the loads evenly. Edge boundaries prevent the stones from moving sideways.

Lime efflorescence When cement hardens, it splits off hydrated lime, which can reach the stone surface. These lime efflore-scences do not affect the mechanical properties and natural appearance of our products at all. Due to we-ather influences such as rain or snow caused by nor-mal stress, the efflorescence disappears automatically after some time.

Edge flaking and cracks With modern concrete products it is possible to design more diverse ideas than with any other building mate-rial. In permanent use, however, this natural material cannot completely rule out minor edge chipping, bre-ak-offs and hairline cracks on slabs, paving stones and kerbstones.

Our products are manufactured that they can be installed easily and quickly. Please make sure that only specialist companies are commissioned with the installation of bound construction methods! All installation and processing instructions given here are non-binding recommendations for which we assume no liability whatsoever.

Pavement / Slab

Bedding (bed of chippings), 3-6 cm

Upper base layer, approx. 20 cm

Lower base course (frost protection)

Substrate (natural ground)

How to easily get to the finished pavement

1. The excavation The excavation should be about 20-30 cm wider than the area to be laid. The unstable soil layers - for examp-le loam or topsoil - are excavated until stable soil is re-ached.

2. The substructure with base layersIf necessary, compact the substrate. Then fill in the lay-ers with forest safe gravel or crushed stone and com-pact additionally. Caution: Each individual level and base course must be laid with a slope so that any see-page water that penetrates later is drained off.

3. The beddingA loose and even bed of chippings is applied to the unbound upper base course as a levelling layer - in thicknesses of 3 to 6 cm. This bed of chippings is first vibrated in together with the laid and grouted paving stones.

Our experts in the specialist trade will be happy to advise you. Please observe the norms and standards for processing pavements.

Joint

Top results in just a few steps! Here you can find out how to lay paving stones and slabs in unbound construction. This means that the stones are laid loosely on a bedding and carefully vibrated in. This can be easily mastered with a little technical skill!

Schematic representation of a paved surface in unbound construction (standard construction method):