Flagstone terraces & steps, Flagstone
Large-format flagstone terraces and stone-slab steps, fitted tight and pitched to drain, set as the ground plane around a house.
A flagstone terrace has to sit flat underfoot, shed water away from the foundation, and hold its joints through frost — none of which is visible once it reads as simply the patio.
The slabs are large-format and laid to close joints rather than grouted gaps, so the surface reads as stone and not as a grid.
What keeps a terrace comfortable years later is the bed underneath it and the pitch built into it, not the stone on top. Slab steps and a low retaining edge carry the surface down the grade where the ground falls away.
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