Indian Sandstone

Indian sandstone is a natural riven stone, quarried and split rather than moulded, so every slab carries genuine colour banding and surface texture variation that a manufactured product can’t fully replicate. It is laid on a mortar bed over a properly prepared base and pointed between the slabs, and works particularly well on period and character properties where a manufactured concrete or porcelain unit would look out of place next to original brickwork or stonework. Being a natural stone, it benefits from sealing to help resist staining, and like any natural material it can need occasional re-pointing over its life as joints weather — a genuinely different maintenance reality to a manufactured slab.

Best suited to: period and character properties, patios, paths, and driveways where a natural stone look matters

Less suited to: a completely uniform, unvarying colour and texture across every slab

Permeable / SuDS: No — this is an impermeable surface by design, so drainage falls have to be built in at construction rather than relying on the surface itself.