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.
Latest News and Case Studies
Roofing
THREE IMPRESSIVE PROJECTS UTILISING WELSH SLATE HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS FINALISTS IN THE PITCHED ROOFING AWARDS
Lucent, St Andrew's Church and The Roundhouse are battleing it our in the "Best use of slate for a commercial project"
Roofing
FROM COURSES TO HORSES
One of the key factors in choosing Welsh slates was their high-quality natural appearance. We recognised the importance of maintaining the architectural integrity of the church, and these slates perfectly matched the authentic look of the existing roof.
Hard Landscaping
WELSH SLATE PRODUCTS HELP WIN ANOTHER GARDEN AWARD
Following hard on the heels of its role in a multi-award-winning garden at Chelsea Flower Show this year, another garden featuring Welsh Slate hard landscaping products has won an award at the current RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
Exteriors
CWT-Y-BUGAIL QUARRY GRANTED EXTENDED LEASE FOR SLATE PRODUCTION
This not only safeguards jobs in the local community but also allows Welsh Slate to meet the ongoing demand for this traditional architectural, hard landscaping and roofing material.
Community
BREEDON GROUP VOLUNTEERING SCHEME “MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY”
As part of our Make a Difference Day programme, which offers colleagues the opportunity to raise money for charity, on Monday 24 June Nigel Taylor, from Welsh Slate, will be running up and down Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon 4 times!
News
WELSH SLATE GARDEN WINS AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
The garden is inspired by rejuvenated slate quarry landscapes, which are used as a metaphor for resilience and how much things have changed with HIV in the UK since the 1980s.
Roofing
WELSH SLATE AWARDS TOTAL HITS THE HEIGHTS
Welsh Slate has added to its impressive award roster by featuring on a host of recent winning projects. Welsh Slate featured in every project using slate that won at the NFRC Roofing Awards 2024 on May 10th.
News
A WELSH RAINFOREST GARDEN
The focus for the design was to raise awareness and promote temperate rainforests, the rare and wonderful habitat that exists in the UK, particularly in Wales, and to create a beautiful, low maintenance border using natural products and local materials fo
News
WELSH SLATE PRODUCTS TO FEATURE ON TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST'S GARDEN RHS CHELSEA
A showcase of Welsh Slate products will feature on the ‘Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 garden’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024. Supported by grant-giving charity Project Giving Back and designed by Matthew Childs
Roofing
WELSH SLATE HELPS ALL SOULS FROM THE END OF AN ERA TO A NEW ONE
The church is an iconic building, occupying a key position on Regent Street, and is highly visible from the surrounding streets, therefore the aesthetic qualities of Welsh Slate were a major consideration.
News
PENRHYN QUARRY HOSPITAL UPDATE
We have recently completed an initial exercise of work at the Penrhyn Quarry Hospital to carefully remove the vegetation from the structure and the trees which sit within and adjacent to the building.
Exteriors
WELSH SLATE TOPS THE HEIGHTS AND THE MENU AT THE PENINSULA LONDON
Cwt-y-Bugail Honed slate is a premium Welsh slate known for its natural beauty and durability. Its rich, dark grey colour, and smooth, Honed finish complements the timeless elegance of The Peninsula London perfectly.