Plum Slate Chippings
Deep purple-plum welsh slate. The colour deepens dramatically in the rain. Borders, drives, feature beds and water-feature surrounds.
Plum slate, Staffordshire pink, Cotswold chippings, golden flint and decorative grey gravel. All stocked at our Walsall yard. Loose-tipped from one tonne, or in 850kg bulk bags landed onto driveways and gardens by HIAB crane.
Why our decorative range
Five lines that cover the looks people in the Midlands actually ask for. Traditional, contemporary, country, formal. All stocked, all available the day you call. None of this "subject to confirmation from the quarry" stuff that delays a Saturday landscape job.
The range
Drives, borders, paths, water features and landscape design. All available loose-tipped from one tonne up, or in 850kg bulk bags delivered with the HIAB-equipped flatbed crane.
Deep purple-plum welsh slate. The colour deepens dramatically in the rain. Borders, drives, feature beds and water-feature surrounds.
Local Staffordshire granite chippings in pink, grey and warm tan. The classic Midlands decorative gravel. Drives, paths, borders.
Honey-cream Cotswold limestone. The classic English country garden look on paths, borders, alpine beds and rockery dressings.
Rounded golden-yellow flint gravel that reflects warm light. Popular on traditional drives, borders, water features and pond margins.
Cool grey granite chippings. The contemporary garden choice for modern drives, low-maintenance ground cover and architectural planting beds.
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How it arrives
Most decorative jobs are bulk-bag drops. Bigger landscape projects go loose. Tell us the access on the call and we'll route it the cheapest way.
Woven poly "ton bags" craned onto drives, gardens or scaffolded sites within 6m of the kerb. The right call when a 20t lorry can't get on the deck.
Single-rear-axle for 1–3t domestic. 6-wheel for 10t. 8-wheel for 16–20t bulk drops onto stockpiles. Driver tips where you direct.
Coverage
Same-day Black Country if booked before 11am. Next-day across the wider region. Yard collection welcome six days a week.
FAQs
Depends on the look and the depth you can run. For a traditional drive: golden flint or Staffordshire pink, both angular enough to lock together. For modern or contemporary: decorative grey or plum slate. For traditional country: Cotswold chippings. Ring us with the area and we'll talk it through.
For a path or border: 40–50mm is fine. For a drive that gets vehicle traffic: 50–75mm minimum, ideally on top of a compacted recycled Type 1 sub-base so the surface doesn't migrate. A 1-tonne bag of 14–20mm decorative gravel covers roughly 12–14m² at 50mm depth. Handy rule of thumb.
Yes, but for anything over a few tonnes we'd recommend a bulk bag delivery with the HIAB rather than tipping a wagon directly onto block paving. The point loads from a fully laden 8-wheeler can crack pavers if the sub-base is anything short of perfect. We'll advise on the call.
Same-day inside the Black Country if booked before 11am and the line is in stock (all five usually are). Next-day for the wider West Midlands. Larger landscape orders booked in advance get a confirmed delivery slot, usually a 2-hour window.
One tonne loose tipped, or one 850kg bulk bag. We won't quote half-tonne deliveries because the haulage doesn't work, but a single bulk bag landed on a residential driveway is a standard product for us.
Tell us the area and the depth, and we'll calculate it. Get it slightly wrong and the second drop is cheap. Over-order by miles and you're stuck with surplus. We'd rather slow the booking by 5 minutes than send you the wrong tonnage.
Yes. Trade collection welcome, bring a vehicle you're confident loading. We can load anything from a Transit tipper to a 32-tonne artic. Cash, card or account.
