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Full Color Patio, Walkways & Sitting Area

Below are pictures of a job taken at a private residence in Lansdale, Pa that was installed in the Fall of 2016. Full color range, natural cleft paving was used throughout the walkways and both terraces. At the customer’s request, the contractor connected the main terrace off the house to a very unique circular shaped patio with a belgian block border. The circular sitting area will be used as a perfect spot for the family’s fire-pit.

Thermal bluestone treads were used for the stairs, border treads and pier caps. Because natural cleft bluestone varies in thickness, thermal bluestone is used where there are visible exposed edges. The thermal treads and caps are a consistent thickness (on this particular job they are 1 1/2″ thick), and have flamed exposed edges. The natural cleft paving material has sawn edges that vary in thickness and isn’t always the right type of bluestone to be set in areas where the exposed edges will be highly visible. The solid bluish-gray color of the thermal bluestone contrasts nicely with the more varied colors of the full color range paving.


Bluestone Caps with Bullnosed Edges

We recently fabricated some 30″ wide diameter round bluestone caps for a local customer. The rounds were used to cap piers outside of an entryway into a house.

The caps came out great, and we wanted to show some of the techniques that were used to make these.

Bullnosing
Bullnosing the bluestone caps with the routing machine

 

Bullnosing
Bullnosing the bluestone cap with the routing machine

 

Roughly bullnosed cap WITHOUT flamed edges
Roughly bullnosed cap WITHOUT flamed edges

 

Flaming the bullnosed edge
Flaming the bullnosed edge

 

More Flaming/ Burning
More Flaming/ Burning

 

The finished product
The finished product

 

The Bullnosed Edge
A closer look at the bullnosed edge