Knowledge Centre
Long-form guidance, completed projects and installation films — written to help Cumbrian homeowners make confident decisions long before anyone quotes a price.
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Budget & Costs
Resin bound driveways are quoted per square metre, but the square metre rate is the least interesting part of the number. What sits beneath the surface decides both the price and whether the driveway still looks new in a decade.
9 min read · 4 February 2026
Materials Explained
A straight comparison of the two surfaces we are asked about most — where each performs, where each struggles, and how to use both together.
Porcelain Patios
Slab size, tone, texture and format — how to choose porcelain that suits the house rather than the brochure.
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Installation Guides
Day by day, what we actually do to your frontage before a single square metre of surface is laid.
Resin Driveways
Both look identical on day one. Here is what separates them by year three, and what to ask before you sign.
Planning Your Project
Access routes, spoil removal, dust, planting and daily access — how a live building site stays liveable.
Installation Guides
The part of your project nobody photographs is the part that decides whether it still looks right in fifteen years.
Completed Projects
A rotting timber deck replaced with a charcoal capped composite platform on an aluminium substructure, with recessed lighting to every step.
Composite Decking
A capped composite board on a correctly built substructure should give 25 years or more, and most quality boards carry a warranty to match.
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Featured installation films
Every installation we film automatically becomes a completed project, a case study and a short advice article here in the Knowledge Centre.
Featured completed projects
Penrith
A tired block paved frontage rebuilt as a seamless silver grey resin bound driveway with a granite sett border and recessed drainage.
Keswick
A sloping rear garden reworked into two level terraces in 900x600 anthracite porcelain, with floating steps and concealed lighting.
Ullswater
A rotting timber deck replaced with a charcoal capped composite platform on an aluminium substructure, with recessed lighting to every step.
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