ᐅ Parchetto paving with unsightly color variations

Created on: 17 Jun 2016 14:15
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Koempy
Hello everyone,

We are currently working on our paving.

The paving stones are from Kann Bausysteme and are called Parchetto.

We have the following issue. See pictures:

Outdoor area with gray-black paving stones and a red cable on the ground

Modern white detached house with gray paved area in the front yard; construction materials visible.


Is this type of installation acceptable? When the stones were laid, we were not at home but at work. Should the paver have been more careful?
Because the dark stones are placed directly next to the light ones, it looks very odd.
When we looked at the samples at the store before ordering, it was not clear that the color variations in this paving would be so pronounced.

The laying pattern looks like this:

Wooden crate with pumpkins, decorative gourds, and straw on paved surface.


We actually like this part. We are desperate and don’t know what to do. We don’t like how it looks at all.

Best regards
Koempy
Mycraft17 Jun 2016 15:43
Well, the OP actually wrote exactly that:
Koempy schrieb:
Kan said that he should have mixed the rows, like when laying laminate flooring.
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nasenmann
17 Jun 2016 15:46
But if I mixed them, it would have looked just as unattractive. It seems to me that there is a proper color gradient across the stones (across several stones), and I think this will need to be maintained.
Koempy17 Jun 2016 15:48
The stones were basically ready on the pallet, but the rows should have simply been swapped sideways there.

It was agreed to prepare the base and lay the paving stones.

However, I expect a professional to point out such issues. And the paving stones were known beforehand as well.
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toxicmolotof
17 Jun 2016 16:28
You would have been on the safe side if the contract had referred to the manufacturer’s installation instructions (which are available online) and if the bricks had been properly mixed.

It looks exactly as described: always one layer from one pallet, then one layer from the next pallet...

I wish you a lot of patience, time, and nerves if you want to have this corrected inexpensively.

Maybe someone will also realize that this is botched work.
Mycraft17 Jun 2016 16:59
This is shoddy work... I would be ashamed to deliver something like this...
Koempy17 Jun 2016 18:02
We first spoke with him, and he said he didn’t know how he could have installed it differently.
We will contact the Kann field service again and request an on-site appointment. Especially since, together with the paver, we noticed that many stones are completely just one color and many have a very strong bluish tint.

We will definitely not accept it as it is.

We think the picture in the brochure has nothing to do with the stones that were delivered.

This is what we had envisioned:

What was delivered has nothing to do with this.