Porcelain Paving in Kent from Experienced Landscapers
Quality Paving Installed by Experts
Are you searching for options for garden paving in Kent? Are you planning a full garden design project? As a time-served landscaping and paving company, Wilsons Landscaping covers all your garden transformation needs in Kent, from bespoke garden rooms to composite decking installations. This includes specialist expertise in porcelain paving. With a seemingly endless list of benefits, this paving option continues to rise in popularity, and it’s easy to see why. Read on to find out more.
Our professional landscapers cover Tenterden and the nearby locations across the county. From family homes to large properties in the rural areas, our paving company has a proven track record for delivering landscaping and garden design projects of unmatched quality.
Porcelain provides an elegant surface for gardens of any kind. With an array of patterns, colours and finishes available, they also offer great flexibility. This ensures you receive a stunning installation that perfectly suits your design aspirations.
To take the first step toward your own stunning, durable, water-resistant and non-slip paving installation, please contact us. . You can also view our previous works here for some visual inspiration.
What is Porcelain Paving?
This landscaping product is a form of vitrified paving. This means that it undergoes baking at incredibly high temperatures. Porcelain consists of naturally occurring materials. While the specific ingredients used may differ between manufacturers, they usually include premium fine clays, pure quartzitic sand, feldspar (a granitic mineral) and Kaolin (known in the UK as China Clay).
These materials undergo a mixing and grinding process with water to create a slurry that has no grittiness. The manufacturer then reduces the moisture level to around 6%.
After another mixing process, the blended powder is pressed into moulds and compacted, closing internal voids and air pockets. These moulds create smooth finishes with no surface relief as well as profiled surfaces and specific textures. Our landscapers supply options of every kind.
A further drying process reduces the moisture content to just 1 to 1.5%. To suit a range of garden design and landscaping projects, be they in Ashford or any other nearby location, the slab undergoes a range of pressing, printing and pre-treatment processes. This creates the appearance of other materials, for example, marble, travertine or even timber.
The resulting slab then passes slowly through a specially designed kiln. This machine stretches as long as 100 metres and reaches temperatures between 1,200֯C and 1,400֯C. To ensure superior quality, the cooling stage is equally as meticulous as the heating.
This manufacturing process creates the various porcelain products that we supply and install. Our range includes:
- Luxury Italian Porcelain
- Premium Italian Porcelain
- Wood-effect Porcelain
- Large Format Porcelain
- 600mm x 900mm Porcelain
- Budget Porcelain
What is Porcelain Paving?
Porcelain is a landscaping product of unrivalled quality, not only in aesthetic appeal but resilience too. When you choose our paving company for your garden design project, our landscapers lay porcelain paving that delivers multiple benefits, including:
- The slabs are dense, solid and resistant to water
- Low porosity makes them ideal in damp or wet areas
- They create a stain- and scratch-resistant surface
- Due to low water absorption, the paving is non-slip
- Highly resistant to severe weather changes
- Outstanding performance in heat, cold and frost
- Impervious to fading – original colour stays true
- It is incredibly robust
- Easy to clean and generally low maintenance
With the perfect blend of style, elegance and durability, porcelain paving offers a unique opportunity for a statement installation that doesn’t compromise on performance.
With the ability to handle the significant wear and tear of high-traffic areas, this landscaping material ticks every box for garden patios and pathways in Tenterden and across all the nearby areas.