*Excluding NI 🫠

Lads I'm looking to sort the back garden out. Does anyone have any experience buying one of these circular paving sets: https://www.diy.com/departments/outdoor-garden/paving-walling/paving-packs/DIY592557.cat?Range=Circular+Paving+Slabs

I can't for the life of me find one store online that will deliver to NI. B&Q, homebase, all the wee specialist stores. They all tell you to go fuck yourself. Anyone have something like this in the garden? Where did you source it?

I dunno if this is a Brexit thing or if we've always been shafted when it comes to heavy goods but fuck me, why is it so hard to find something local?

by OptimalPool

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  1. It’s stupid that they have stores here and cannot do online delivery. Definitely was not as big an issue pre-Brexit

  2. Pretty sure there is similar type of things out the back of The Range in their garden bit so you could try there.

  3. Try some of the companies in the south, they’re more likely to deliver than the English ones if they use their own drivers

  4. I’m fairly sure I’ve seen these in store at the B&Q at Holywood exchange. If it’s transport you’ve an issue with, you might be able to find a fairly cheap “man with van” who’d be able to pick up and deliver for you.

  5. I got a pressure washer off B&Q delivered a couple weeks ago. It depends on the product

    Shipping big patio tiles like that across the water would cost an arm and a leg..

  6. Remember with B&Q that a lot of their online stuff isn’t actually stuff they stock, it’s people selling through their own companies who pay to be listed on B&Q’s website to fool you into thinking they are stocked in a store. There is a filter you can apply on the side to exclude non B&Q items.

    But I agree, it is an absolute pain that we can’t get things delivered here from a lot of companies, as it having to travel over water was bad enough, but now with Brexshit and Whinger Framework in place people just do not want to bother with us sadly.

  7. There’s local sellers on Gumtree I’ve seen or you can also buy on ebay which delivers to NI.

  9. Order for collection, find out the packed dimensions, ring a haulier that deals with pallets and parcels and talk to them about it armed with the dims and collection postcode, you’ll probably hear things like “at your own risk” and “you have no/minimal insurance”, tiles/paving slabs/things that are liable to crack when you look at them wrong are a bastard to transport because unless they’re packed right they crack when you look at them wrong.

  10. B&Q online has a ‘marketplace’ now, so they have a bunch of stuff listed on their site that they don’t sell, they’re just letting other companies advertise on their site. You can filter them out by selecting only things you can click and collect, even if you want delivery.

  12. Try Tobermore Paving they have a range of them and pretty sure they deliver.

  13. Try the local garden centres. Probably won’t all have a great website so you’ll have to phone them.

  14. Tobermore, Acheson and Glover or Barretts do outdoor products. They’re all here and easy to deal with. If you’re near Tyrone a company called Castle paving near omagh supply all that stuff and are very competitive.

  15. Samuel Kirks in Glengormley has some less ornate paving circles.

  16. I have seen a similar patio set in the range glengormley, it’s actually there for you to take away. Not sure about delivery

  17. Aby half decent builders merchants will be able to get you them and should have a few displays out.

  18. I laid one of their cobblestone on a mesh paths last week, same thing as your circular paving kit. They were easy enough to find at local stores but be warned that if you’re putting them in the car they are heavy as fuuuck.

  19. U do know we have local stores I do believe the one in glengormley can sort out delivery

  21. [https://chapterstone.ie/products-overview/](https://chapterstone.ie/products-overview/)

    Honestly haven’t look that hard, but I’d be looking for an Irish supplier. As a gardener I know the pain of relying on daddy mainland, which is a lost cause these days.

    Also to those who’re confused, it’s not a B&Q product. B&Q have their own version of Amazon marketplace that other retailers use.

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