hard landscaping Information for Architects and Specifiers
Welsh Slate’s technical team will work with you to bring your landscaping vision into reality through our large range of hard landscaping products.
Paving, monoliths, feature stones, walling and decorative slate chippings can all work together or individually to create stunning landscape designs. Welsh Slate’s Hard Landscaping product range is wonderfully versatile with products such as walling, with a range of finishes, suitable for edging and steps as well as retaining walls.
All applications will naturally weather in the landscape, but the structure is unaffected by moss and lichen growth, so its practical life is measured in centuries rather than years.
Our technical team will help guide you to find the best solutions to any challenges in your hard landscaping design scheme.
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Working with Architects and Specifiers
- Penrhyn® Slate has been designated as Global Heritage Stone Resource, an indication of Welsh Slate’s importance to building heritage Worldwide
- Welsh Slate implement a fully quality assured production process to deliver the best natural slate available
- Welsh Slate will naturally weather in the landscape, but the structure is unaffected by moss and lichen growth, so its practical life is measured in centuries rather than years.
- Welsh Slate’s Hard Landscaping product range is wonderfully versatile with products such as walling, with a range of finishes, suitable for edging and steps as well as retaining walls.
- Welsh Slate is totally unreactive both acid and alkali so runoff from the stone will have no effect on the pH level in the surrounding soil and this chemical stability of Welsh Slate makes it compatible with all other building materials.
Providing digital, virtual and face-to-face support on everything Welsh Slate
Within this section of our website we have numerous resources to support you in designing and specifying Welsh Slate within your project.
Welsh Slate Hard Landscaping Products on NBS Source
Welsh Slate has partnered with NBS to provide a single source for all product information.
This platform brings together the NBS BIM Library, NBS Plus and Product Selector which means all our products can be specified directly into projects by importing the enhanced product data directly from NBS Source using the NBS Chorus cloud-based specification writing platform.
Below is an overview from NBS Source offering the full Hard Landscaping product range all authored to both CAWS and Uniclass 2015 standards. Simply select the relevant Welsh Slate product(s) and highlight the relevant items to match your product and project requirements.
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Aggregates & Minerals
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Blue Grey roofing slates from Welsh Slate’s newly re-opened Ffestiniog quarry feature alongside decorative aggregates and Breedon Golden Amber self-binding gravel from Breedon Special Aggregates on the RBC Brewin Dolphin Garden designed by acclaimed garde
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Welsh Slate's Ffiona has spent her volunteering hours giving a helping hand to 'warm space' an initiative run on behalf of Betws y Coed Community Council
Ffestiniog Quarry
THE RT HON LIZ SAVILLE ROBERTS MP VISITS FFESTINIOG QUARRY
We were delighted to welcome The Rt Hon Liz Saville Roberts MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd to site on the re-opening of Ffestiniog Quarry which will create 19 new jobs across our 3 sites, Ffestiniog, Cwt-y-Bugail & Penrhyn
Hard Landscaping
FROM COMICS TO COPINGS
The house, which was designed as one of a pair by AHR Architecture, uses Welsh Slate products on various aspects – as vertical cladding on elevational features including a “chimney” on the house, and for hard landscaping, as walling and copings to terrace
Ffestiniog Quarry
THE WORLD RENOWNED FFESTINIOG BLUE GREY SLATE IS BACK IN FULL PRODUCTION
Formed by the Ordovician slate beds laid down over 470 million years ago. Ffestiniog Quarry has been producing slates from 1818
Community
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
A presentation to Year 11 students at Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen Bethesda on jobs, training and progression opportunities provided for by the company, and the scope of different jobs available within Welsh Slate and within the wider Breedon Group.
Roofing
WELSH SLATES HELP A NATIONAL MUSEUM WITH A NEW TOP HAT
Almost 150 years after work first started on its purpose-built home, the Netherland’s national museum is enjoying a new lease of life with Ffestiniog Blue Grey roofing slate
Ffestiniog Quarry
FROM FOGS TO FAME, WITH WELSH SLATE
Some 30,000 Ffestiniog Blue Grey slates were used for the reroof of the roof of the Central range, while Penrhyn Heather Blue slates were used by Mundy Roofing on the eastern and western ranges of London’s historic Kings Cross railway station.
Ffestiniog Quarry
ST MARTIN’S GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH WELSH SLATE
Welsh Slate has supplied roofing slates from both its Penrhyn and Ffestiniog quarries to provide a like-for-like replacement for an old 19th century roof at London’s famous St Martin-in-the-Fields church complex.
Ffestiniog Quarry
WELSH SLATE TOPS AN ICONIC GATEWAY TO EUROPE
Some 80,000 Ffestiniog 500mm x 300mm slates were installed on the roof of the Barlow Shed St Pancras Station as part of the station’s award-winning £380 million refurbishment.
Ffestiniog Quarry
WELSH SLATES HELP A NATIONAL MUSEUM WITH A NEW TOP HAT
Almost 150 years after work first started on its purpose-built home, the Netherland’s national museum is enjoying a new lease of life, thanks in part to Ffestiniog Welsh Slate.