Why a paver line narrows to one specification
A paver is a structural piece. It is bedded in sand or gravel or raised on pedestals, and it has to span between its supports and carry a load with nothing bonded underneath it.
That job is answered by a depth and a format, not by a range of them. Once a maker has settled on a depth that spans reliably and a size that a person can place, there is little reason to offer five more. Porcelain pavers covers the wider outdoor range.
Three quarters of an inch
Every piece here is 3/4 inch, which is roughly double an ordinary interior floor tile.
The depth is not there for wear, since a fired porcelain is already harder than anything likely to be dropped on a terrace. It is there for bending: a paver supported at its corners has to resist a load in the middle, and depth is what it resists with.
24x24 and why a square
Every piece is a two foot square, which is the format most commonly used for a terrace and the one that behaves best on a surface that is not perfectly level.
A square has no direction, so it can be laid any way round and a pattern never has to be planned. It also absorbs a slight fall without every joint announcing it, which a long rectangle does not. Each box holds two pieces covering a little under eight square feet.
Natural, across the range
Natural is the finish on all of it, which on a paver means an unpolished, lightly textured face.
An exterior floor gets wet without warning and weather works on it continuously. A reflective face would return every bit of that and show what the weather leaves behind; a natural face gives nothing back and shows nothing. There is no polished paver in this range and no reason for one.
Two pieces to a box
Each box holds two pavers and covers a little under eight square feet, which is a different relationship from any interior tile.
It is worth knowing before an order is worked out. An interior floor tile comes seven or eight to a box; these come two, because each piece weighs what a two foot square of three quarter inch porcelain weighs. Quantities, handling and delivery all follow from that.
The effects are all outdoor stones
Stone look leads here, then travertine and slate looks, in grays, a multicolor, a beige and a white.
That list is a list of the stones that paved terraces before porcelain existed. Travertine around Mediterranean pools, slate on northern terraces, and the general stone looks in between. A paver print aims at whatever was already doing the job. Travertine look tile has the printed version of the warmest of them.
Where these go
A terrace, a patio, a pool surround, a roof deck on pedestals, a path and a courtyard. Anywhere a stone paver goes, with fewer questions attached, since a vitrified body has almost nothing for water to enter and frost has nothing to act on.
Pool and spa paving holds the coping and the pool edge, and travertine pavers the quarried alternative.
This series is one of several porcelain lines in our full range of pavers.
