Slate Patio treatments

Slate is such a wonderful natural material and can make a great patio, it can look contemporary and modern in the right setting and yet work well in a rustic woodland garden or country courtyard. However as with any natural stone product there is always the risk of staining and after just a year the sun can start to bleach it to a shade of silver if left untreated.

We recently installed a patio in a modern city garden, which you can see by looking at our gallery page (click here), and in order to avoid these issues we spent a long time looking for a product that would both protect the slate from staining and also keep its colour whilst not putting a visible coating or shine on the surface. In the end we found a product called 'Lithofin Stain stop plus' by a company called Extensive - www.extensive.co.uk

So far this has worked well, we used slightly less than was recommended and after a year the colour seems to still be there and although it hasn't had the red wine test just yet I gather plenty of sausages have escaped the BBQ without causing any issues.

As with most product we expect re-application to be needed but so far the results are promising and we will be using it again on future products.