Landscaping Stone

Hard landscaping is where stone quality shows fastest: cheap paving spalls and stains within a few winters, while sawn granite laid properly is effectively permanent. Because we cut stone for a living, our landscaping range is fabrication-led — not just pallets of paving, but steps, copings, pier caps, setts and bespoke pieces cut to your garden designer's drawings on the same CNC machinery as our worktops.

We supply external-grade granite and porcelain across Surrey and South West London, in sawn, flamed, bush-hammered and honed finishes, with bespoke cutting as the house speciality: curved copings, oversized treads, radius pier caps and matched outdoor kitchen packages. Supply-only to your landscaper, with delivery to site.

Why granite for paving and garden stonework?

Granite is the most durable mainstream paving stone there is: dense enough that frost has nothing to attack, hard enough that a century of footfall barely marks it, and stable in colour under UV where concrete products fade and Indian sandstones can delaminate. Flamed finishes give genuine slip resistance wet or dry, which matters on steps and pool surrounds especially.

It also matches the architecture of stone inside the house: a flamed grey granite terrace off a kitchen with granite worktops, or silver-grey setts edging a porcelain patio, reads deliberate in a way mixed materials rarely do. See the granite hub for the material itself.

What landscaping pieces do you supply?

Paving in standard and bespoke sizes; solid steps and step treads with flamed tops and sawn or bullnosed nosings; wall copings — flat, once-weathered or twice-weathered, with drip grooves; pier caps for gate piers and wall ends, flat or pyramidal; setts for edging, driveways and borders; and bespoke items to drawing: curved copings, radius steps, pond surrounds, sawn plinths and bench seats.

Because fabrication is in-house, "bespoke" is not a premium exercise — it is the same saw working from a different drawing. Garden designers send us cutting lists exactly as kitchen companies do, and bespoke one-offs are welcome.

Sawn, flamed, honed — which finish where?

Flamed (thermally textured) is the outdoor default: the surface is heat-spalled into a fine, even texture with excellent grip, ideal for paving, steps and pool surrounds. Sawn six sides gives crisp contemporary lines for copings and plinths. Honed suits covered areas — loggias, porches, outdoor kitchen worktops — where a smoother feel is safe. Bush-hammered is the heavy-texture option for ramps and heritage-style work.

Tops and exposed edges can carry different finishes on one piece: flamed tread top, sawn polished nosing is a classic step detail we machine routinely.

What do granite paving, steps and copings cost?

Guide prices, supplied: sawn and flamed granite paving from £55–£95 per m² depending on size and thickness; solid step treads from £85 each; wall copings from £38 per linear metre; pier caps from £60 each; setts from around £45 per m². Bespoke cutting is priced per piece from the drawing. Delivery across Surrey and SW London is quoted by load.

We are suppliers and fabricators rather than landscapers — your landscaper or builder lays the stone, and we are happy to talk falls, bedding and jointing specifications with them directly. For quantities, send the plan via the contact page.

Can you match the terrace to an outdoor kitchen or indoor floor?

Yes — single-palette gardens are the speciality the worktop side makes possible. A flamed granite terrace with a matching granite outdoor kitchen worktop; 20mm exterior porcelain paving in the same colour family as the kitchen floor inside, so the threshold line almost disappears; copings and pier caps from the same stone as the steps.

Exterior porcelain deserves a mention of its own: large formats, zero maintenance, consistent colour — the garden version of everything on the porcelain page. We supply both and will show you samples of each side by side.

How should granite landscaping be maintained?

Barely — which is the point. Granite paving wants an occasional brush and a wash; a pressure washer used sensibly (fan nozzle, reasonable distance) refreshes it without harm; and re-sanding or re-pointing joints is a landscaping job on its own schedule, not a stone problem. Sealing outdoor granite is optional — it reduces organic staining under trees but is not structural protection.

Avoid only two things: salt-heavy de-icers year after year on polished finishes, and acid-based patio cleaners on anything near marble or limestone features. Moss and algae respond to standard biocidal washes that granite tolerates without complaint.