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
News
WELSH SLATE HELPS GIVE A BRUSSELS APARTMENT BUILDING FACADE A NEW BUZZ
Welsh Slate’s Cwt-y-Bugail Dark Blue slate, with a honed finish on selected sides and faces, has been used to restore façade elements, wall copings and cills/thresholds at the La Magneto apartment building in Brussels.
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NATIONAL TRUST TRUSTS WELSH SLATE WITH WITH AN APIAN ISSUE
The reroof, with Welsh Slate, of a historic National Trust manor house with ornamental gardens overlooking the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, has created quite a buzz locally.
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WELSH SLATE IS JUST THE MEDICINE FOR A NEW PUBLIC GARDEN
A new public garden with Welsh Slate at its centrepiece is set to be officially opened this spring. The new Welsh Herbal Garden forms a central part of the 45-acre Treborth Botanic Garden, which is owned by Bangor University
Roofing
WELSH SLATES SCORE OVER A CENTURY AT A PRIVATE SCHOOL
310 Studio Architects said: “The roof, made of beautiful Heather Blue Welsh slate with horizontal banding in green, serves as the building’s first line of defense against the unforgiving Welsh weather
Roofing
WELSH SLATE HELPS TO BRING HISTORIC CHURCH BACK FROM THE BRINK
An £8 million project to rescue one of central London’s most significant churches from Historic England’s Buildings at Risk Register is now complete, and topped with Welsh Slate.
Hard Landscaping
WELSH SLATE TO SUPPLY ROCK ARMOUR FOR KINMEL BAY SEA DEFENCE PROJECT
Welsh Slate is supplying local civil engineers with more than 50,000 tonnes of three to six-tonne each of granite rock armour from Ffestiniog
Roofing
SALVAGE HUNTERS: GEORGIAN HOUSE RESTORATION
The programme includes Drew Pritchard at Penrhyn Quarry to see the process of splitting and dressing slate as he buys Welsh Slate for the renovation of his Georgian House in Bath.
General
WELSH SLATE HELPS OLD COPPERWORKS WITH A NEW BEATING HEART
Some 800m2 of Welsh Slate’s Cwt y Bugail 500mm x 250mm roofing slates feature on three buildings at the heart of Swansea Council’s £5 million regeneration of the Hafod Morfa Copperworks in the city.
Ffestiniog Quarry
BLAENAU FFESTINIOG QUARRY PUBLIC PLANNING CONSULTATION
The public planning consultation for Blaenau Ffestiniog was well-attended and we were encouraged by the positive response to our future proposals
Roofing
WELSH SLATE TOPS THE FOREFRONT OF A BUILDING REVOLUTION
The Red House was a blueprint for York’s building revolution as following the Great Fire of London, the Government of the day issued new building regulations, including a requirement that any new houses fronted onto a pavement must be built of brick and/o
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WELSH SLATE HELPS WITH A LIFELINE TO A HISTORIC HOSPITAL
Penrhyn Quarry hospital plays an important part in the story of Welsh Slate, and in particular the role of health and welfare within the slate society.
Roofing
DM ROOFING & ROUGHCASTING LTD CELEBRATES TRIPLE WIN AT NFRC AWARDS WITH WELSH SLATE
The University of Glasgow project showcases the pinnacle of roofing expertise and the timeless beauty of Welsh Slate. The Cwt-y-Bugail slate, renowned for its durability and aesthetic appeal, perfectly complements the heritage architecture of the universi