While in Barbados, we noticed the creative re-use of bricks and other building materials, in the making excellent mixed paving. The bricks, it turns out were made available after the demolition of plantation buildings ( mainly old chimneys). The bricks made mostly in Scotland were used as ballast on the ships that in turn, took sugar and molasses in the easterly direction.
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| Bricks re-used as paving interplanted with ground hugging plants. |
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| Cinder-blocks interplanted with low growing grass make a great parking space. |
5 comments:
Lovely paving. And lucky you for the Barbadian trip!
I like the use of the cinder block paving to let rainwater percolate through, reducing stormwater runoff. I don't suppose there's a lot of freeze-thaw in this area, lol!
Hi Helen and Paul,
I think only 13degrees north of the equator, so no freeze-thaw. Lots of rain water though!
It’s a good quality post about paving that you have written. There are a number of points however which I believe would do better if you went into a little bit more detail than you have done.Thanks for posting this article.
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for the comment. I am more concerned here about the visual effect here, and actually, have little technical knowledge of the construction of these surfaces.
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