Pirate Pavers LLC
Pavers - Travertine - Sealer - Consultation Steve Tillack owner of Pirate Pavers and Solution Sourc
04/09/2023
We’re on a very cool and creative pool this week!
06/08/2023
We made this mo betta!
04/08/2023
12/07/2023
We did small but nice project today!
04/07/2023
Finished!
03/07/2023
Before and after!
29/12/2022
This one turned out beautiful!
29/12/2022
This was a nice Christmas gift!!
06/07/2022
An amazing improvement!
16/06/2022
This is going to be beautiful!
10/09/2021
This one turned out very nice!
22/08/2021
09/06/2021
We started a new driveway remodel this morning!
27/02/2021
Cool Story of Pavers beginnings......
A Sett, also known as a block, Belgian block or Sampietrini, is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. Formerly in widespread use, particularly on steeper streets because setts provided horses' hooves with better grip than a smooth surface, they are now encountered rather as decorative stone paving in landscape architecture. Setts are often referred to as "cobbles," although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone in that a sett is quarried or worked to a regular shape, whereas a cobblestone is generally a small, naturally-rounded rock. Setts are usually made of granite.
With no rock quarries located anywhere along the Gulf Coast, how did these stones find their way to the streets of New Orleans? They were used as ballast to stabilize ships sailing to the colonies, and it was common practice to jettison them in the harbor to make way for the cargo being taken back to Europe. It did not take long for colonists to realize that they should repurpose these stones rather than allow for them to clog the riverbank. Thus the harbormaster organized teams of laborers who removed the ballast which later found its way to the city streets.
In looking at old photographs of these early streets, you will notice that the stones are laid out on a diagonal off-set pattern rather than being square to the curb. My only thinking leads me to believe that this was so that a wagon wheel would not become wedged in the space between the stones leading to an accident.
This image from the Library of Congress dates from the 1920s showing Sett stones on a French Quarter street taken by Arnold Genthe.
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