Natural Stone Drainage Pavers
Stone drainage pavers help manage water in natural stone paving projects without sacrificing beauty. Effective drainage and an attractive finish are essential to a successful design.
Natural stone drainage pavers allow designers to direct water while retaining or enhancing the beauty and character of natural stone. HDG’s drainage pavers are typically made from dense landscape stone materials, including granite, basalt, and select limestones.
These pavers can function as standalone drainage elements or cover plastic drainage channels and metal grates for a more cohesive appearance.
Selecting Stone and Finishes
Natural stone drainage pavers can blend seamlessly into the surrounding paving or create a contrasting accent using a different stone material. Either approach lets designers integrate drainage into the overall design.
As the pavers are at a low point for the purpose of gathering and draining water — good design suggests adding a light textured finish to the drainage pavers. Thermaled or lychee (bush-hammered) finish are great choices for wet stone applications like these. These finishes offer better protection against slips and falls as compared to plastic or metal drainage systems.
Stone drainage pavers are commonly used in commercial, residential, and municipal projects. Applications include: patios, driveways, terraces, walkways, plazas, courtyards, parking lots, pool surrounds, and zero-grade flush mount water fountains.
Design Considerations for Drainage Pavers
Stone drainage pavers offer designers flexibility in material selection, textured finishes, and slot or hole sizes. HDG can also produce custom shapes and sizes using digitally controlled CNC cutting for precise or distinctive designs.
Drainage pavers can be designed to any desired shape and size — typically to match the custom paver or coping length. Square, rectangular, planks or even curvilinear shapes are possible. Drain slots or holes may also be sized and spaced according to the designer’s wishes. Drainage pavers are typically set over a drainage channel/trough.
They can also be sand-set to create a permeable paving surface, draining into the substrate and ground below. This is typical for a parking lot, driveway, courtyard or plaza. When considering this — please check out HDG Cell-Tek cellular-confinement system to help prepare the substrate below the pavers.
For projects in public spaces, drainage slots or holes must comply with applicable accessibility requirements. Consult the ADA accessibility standards when specifying slot dimensions.
Flexibility Brings Choices and Questions
Natural stone products offer designers much flexibility. This extends to stone drainage pavers. There are many considerations including: material choices, textured finishes, slot or hole sizes, etc. HDG can even make drainage pavers any size or shape using digitally laser cut CNC patterns if designers want something unique or precise. HDG Building Materials stands ready to answer your questions and provide support from concept to completion. It’s part of our White Glove Service.
Contact Us About Stone Drainage Pavers
HDG Building Materials can help you explore stone options, custom drainage slots, finishes, and design considerations for your project. Call 503.360.9551 or Click.
