Talk:Sett (paving)

Setting Setts
What many gardeners would love seeing here is a discussion of or reference to the setting of setts to create patterns that resemble interference patterns of waves, as is done by those who lay streets in Europe.

Geologist (talk) 18:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

It isn't clear that this topic is the place to discuss the laying of setts; but a topic on the laying of setts would be popular. Given the number and variety of streets layed with setts, there must be many instructions for civic workers and even artisans. What would be valuable would be a list of popular patterns and references for laying these. Here is an, unfortunately commercial, webpage that discusses the topic and provides some instruction for what is there called the 'European fan pattern', alluded to above.

http://www.pavingexpert.com/setts01.htm#efp

Geologist (talk) 20:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I subscribe to the idea that a description on how to actually arrange the setts (the pattern in detail, the design) is needed. I assume the street builders have some sort of strategy to sort the setts based on their size and shape (even if rectangular they vary in shape and size) and specific designs to obtain the "fan" like patterns. Will be nice to know how they do it. The industrial "fan" design is not enough. Gigi marga (talk) 15:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Cycling
I am reverting User:Kevin McE's deletion of the section on cycling. The photos in (for instance) the Paris–Roubaix article show setts, not cobbles. Cobbles are basically biggish pebbles and their typically round heads make a bumpy road. Setts are dressed before they are laid and are usually regular in shape, making a relatively level road. However, in the age of carriages, carts, and wagons drawn by horses or oxen, setts made a deliberately less than perfectly smooth surface to afford the beasts some purchase. The distinction between setts and cobbles is not the smoothness or bumpiness of the road but whether the stones are dressed or not. --Frans Fowler (talk) 16:48, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I would challenge you to present any source describing the stones on the more difficult and race defining sectors of Paris-Roubaix, such as Carrefour de l'Arbre or Trouée d'Arenberg as setts rather than cobbles, and the idea that the pavé on the Champs Elysées is a highlight of that stage is not only PoV, but would be a PoV held by a miniscule proportion of cycling fans. Kevin McE (talk) 08:05, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No response to the challenge after 25 days, removing unreferenced section. Kevin McE (talk) 19:58, 10 July 2021 (UTC)