Paving Claremont

Setting out from the pool edge and the visible boundary inwards, so the full pavers land where the eye goes and the cuts finish against the wall or the fence. On a metre wide surround that decision is the whole job, and it has to be made before anything is cut.

On a narrow surround, usually yes, because you read them as one surface rather than two. On a wide surround there is room for a deliberate contrast. Either can look right; the wrong answer is a contrast chosen by accident because two pallets were ordered at different times.

Supply and lay as one number for the finished surround. A narrow Claremont surround does not come out cheap per metre, because the cutting and the setout are the same work compressed into a smaller area.

Harder, and much less forgiving. On a wide surround a setout error disappears into the field. On a metre wide surround every course is visible from both edges at once, so the layout has to be right before the first paver goes down.

Yes, wherever the budget allows it. Coping sets the level and the line that everything else works to, so laying it with the surround means one setout and one crew rather than two attempts to meet in the middle. Replacing coping into existing paving is possible, it is just a harder join to hide.