Natural Stone Tiles & Pavers — Rochedale South, Logan City
Natural Stone Tiles Rochedale South
Natural stone for Rochedale South, not for the Rochedale next door
Travertine, limestone, marble and granite, chosen against a house that already exists and collectable at the Springwood warehouse in Logan City. Rochedale South sits at the top of Logan City, and the suburb's northern edge is the Brisbane boundary itself. Cross it and you are in Rochedale, a Brisbane City suburb still being built out under a master-planned neighbourhood plan. The two ask opposite things of stone. Rochedale South holds 5,752 established dwellings, nearly nine in ten of them a separate house, three quarters owner-occupied, so the work here is usually replacing or extending hard landscaping around a home someone already lives in. Stone and Rock supplies travertine, limestone, marble and granite tiles and pavers, plus pool tiles, wall cladding, crazy paving and sealers, with display walls and pickup at the Springwood warehouse, in the same council area. Ring, describe the area, collect it.
One word decides which advice applies. The Queensland Government's locality boundaries put Rochedale South (locality 2381) in Logan City and Rochedale (2379) in Brisbane City, and Brisbane City Council's own suburb dataset holds a record for Rochedale and none at all for Rochedale South. Because the boundary runs along Rochedale South's northern edge, buyers search the shorter name, land on material written for the Brisbane side, and end up planning against the wrong council and the wrong kind of house. If your paving, retaining or driveway job has a Rochedale South address, Logan City Council is the council that matters, the same council as Springwood, Daisy Hill, Shailer Park and Underwood.
Why natural stone matters in Rochedale South
Logan City's northern edge, and the suburb over the line
Rochedale South is Logan City's northern edge: the line along the top of the suburb is the Brisbane boundary itself, and everything below it is locality 2381, Logan City. The suburb immediately over that line is Rochedale, governed by a Brisbane City Plan neighbourhood plan whose stated outcome is that it "is developed as an integrated and master-planned urban community with a mix of uses". That is a place being assembled. Rochedale South is one that is already assembled: 15,228 people in 5,752 private dwellings, against 7,633 people in 2,579 dwellings on the Brisbane side. Nearly nine in ten of those dwellings are a separate house, three quarters are owner-occupied, and the median age is 37.
So the stone brief splits at that boundary. Over the line a paver is often the first hard surface a block has ever carried, going down while a house is being finished. In Rochedale South it almost always joins something already finished, which makes it a matching problem before it is a product problem: the new surface has to sit against a roof, brickwork or render and window frames nobody is changing, and meet a slab, a path or a pool coping at a level that is already set. Half the suburb's families have children at home, households average 2.8 people and two motor vehicles, and 22.5% of dwellings are rented, so the surfaces coming up are the ones worked hardest: driveways, entries, alfresco slabs and pool surrounds. A median weekly household income of $1,924 and 46.1% of dwellings held with a mortgage describe a suburb that stages that work one area at a time, which is why a new area usually has to match one that went down earlier.
Three things follow
Judge it against the house, buy it from one range, check the council
First, colour is judged against a house that is already standing, not a display home, so take up to three samples back to it, shipped within three working days from Queensland with the cost credited against the purchase, or see the display walls at the Springwood warehouse, in Logan City like Rochedale South and with pickup available.
Second, buy the whole area from one supplier, because pavers, pool tiles, cladding and sealers all sit in the same range and can be matched at the point of order. Third, a Rochedale South address is Logan City Council, not the Brisbane council that governs the suburb it is named after, so anything running out to the footpath or the kerb crossing needs Logan's approval for works on public areas and roads before it starts.
What we supply
The range for a Rochedale South retrofit
Natural stone tiles
Travertine, limestone, marble and granite tiles for indoor and outdoor floors and walls.
See tiles & pavers →Pavers and pool tiles
Pavers and pool tiles for driveways, entries, alfresco areas and pool surrounds.
See the range →Stone wall cladding
Natural stone wall cladding for feature walls, facades, fences and retaining faces.
See wall cladding →Crazy paving
Crazy paving in travertine and limestone for informal paths, courtyards and surrounds.
Landscaping stone
Landscaping products including limestone and river stone for garden and outdoor works.
See landscaping stone →Sealers
Sealers stocked alongside the stone so the surface and its protection are bought together.
Shop the range
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What to plan for before you buy
Common problems on a Rochedale South job
Planning a Rochedale South job from advice written for Rochedale
The Brisbane/Logan boundary runs along Rochedale South's northern edge and the suburb immediately over it is called Rochedale, one word shorter. Brisbane City Council's own suburb dataset returns Rochedale and no record of Rochedale South.
The two are administered by different councils and are at opposite stages of their lives. Rochedale is being built out under a master-planned Brisbane neighbourhood plan; Rochedale South is 5,752 established dwellings. For a Rochedale South address the council is Logan City Council, the same council that administers the approval for works on public areas and roads and the same one that covers Springwood, Daisy Hill, Shailer Park and Underwood.
Work from the address rather than the shorter name next door: a Rochedale South property is Logan City Council's, so anything touching the road reserve runs through Logan's approval for works on public areas and roads and not through Brisbane's. That is worth settling before quantities are worked out, because the two suburbs are at opposite stages of their lives and advice written for one does not carry to the other.
Stone chosen on a screen that fights the house once it is down
Natural stone varies piece to piece and batch to batch and a monitor does not reproduce it, while on an established block the roof, the brickwork or render and the window frames were all fixed years ago.
A retrofit is judged against the house it joins, not against a display home, and in Rochedale South that house is one of 5,752 already standing, nearly nine in ten of them a separate house, rather than one being finished to a display standard on the Brisbane side of the boundary. A colour that is close but wrong only becomes obvious once the area is laid.
Order up to three samples, dispatched within three working days from Queensland with the cost credited against your purchase, and hold them against the wall and the existing paving in daylight. Or see full display walls at the Springwood warehouse.
Repaving a driveway all the way down to the kerb without approval
The crossover, the section that crosses the footpath and the kerb and channel, is on public land. Logan City Council administers an approval for works on public areas and roads under the Local Government Act 2009 covering driveway and footpath construction or repair, crossover kerb and channel, and excavation of a roadway, footway or drain.
With two motor vehicles per dwelling on average, the driveway is the surface most often replaced in this suburb, and it is the one job most likely to run onto council land without the owner noticing.
Settle the crossover before the order is placed, so the design and the quantity stop at the right line. The approval is Logan City Council's, and obtaining it is the owner's or the contractor's responsibility, not the supplier's.
A Rochedale South pool surround redone around a barrier that is already standing
Only 5.3% of Rochedale South's dwellings were recorded as unoccupied, so a pool surround here is usually redone around a barrier a household is already living with, on a block where the planting beside the fence line has grown in. Over the northern boundary, Rochedale is a community the Brisbane City Plan sets out to develop as an integrated, master-planned whole, where a pool, its barrier and its surround belong to what is being built rather than to what is being replaced. Queensland's pool safety standard requires a barrier at least 1200mm above finished ground level with a continuous 900mm non-climbable zone measured horizontally outside it, and the things that must stay out of that zone include garden features such as rockeries or raised garden beds, pot plants, trees and shrubs, and outdoor furniture.
Changing the ground next to a barrier that is already in place is where the risk sits. Raised stone planters, stepped levels and decorative boulders are exactly what gets added when an existing surround is redone, and on an established block the planting near the fence line is already grown.
Levels, planters and raised beds near the barrier are a design question to settle before coping and paving are ordered, and on a Rochedale South job that means measuring against a fence line and planting that are already there rather than ones still to go in. The standard is the QBCC's and applies across Queensland; we supply stone and do not inspect or certify barriers.
Outdoor stone that stays damp and marks, and a sealer chosen without knowing which kind it is
South East Queensland is National Construction Code climate zone 2, which the Queensland Government describes as having warm humid summers and mild winters, and porous stone in those conditions stays damp longer. Who chooses the finish matters here as much as the weather does: 22.5% of Rochedale South's dwellings are rented, so a real share of these surfaces are picked by an owner who will not be the one hosing them down, for a house that is already tenanted rather than a new one being finished over the northern boundary in Rochedale. Durable, low-maintenance finishes are that buyer's brief, and on stone that is settled at the sealer as much as at the stone itself.
Sealers for stone divide into two kinds and the difference is worth settling before the order goes in: an impregnating sealer is absorbed into the material rather than forming a surface film, and stays breathable so water vapour escapes freely rather than building up inside the treated stone. On a retrofit that choice is made once, about an area you already live around every day.
We point Rochedale South outdoor work towards impregnating sealers, which are absorbed into the stone instead of forming a film and stay breathable so water vapour can escape, and we stock sealers alongside the stone so the two are bought together in one order at Springwood. Application and re-treatment follow the manufacturer's instructions; we do not publish an interval, because no independent source for one was found.
Asking for the wrong slip number on a surface that is replacing another one
Rochedale South households are older and smaller than the ones over the northern boundary: a median age of 37 against 33 in Rochedale, and 2.8 people per household against 3.3. On a house that is already standing, that household is choosing a replacement wet-area surface for itself rather than signing off a builder's schedule of finishes inside a master-planned build. AS 4586-2013 classifies pedestrian surfaces two different ways, a wet pendulum test giving P0 to P5 and an oil-wet inclining platform test giving R9 to R13, and the two are not interchangeable.
On a Rochedale South entry that is wet through a humid summer and around a pool where the surface is wet constantly, slip resistance is what keeps a good-looking surface usable, and half the suburb's families have children at home. Quoting an R number where a P classification is meant compares the results of two different tests.
Ask us for the P classification of the specific product and finish. For a house, garage or pool surround, AS 4586 is referenced by NCC Volume One rather than Volume Two, the volume that covers those buildings, so treat it as the specification to ask for and not as a code requirement on a home. Where a tested P classification is not available for a line, we say so rather than quote a number.
A DIY paving or cladding job that fails at the substrate rather than the stone
A Rochedale South DIY job starts with a background somebody else chose: the slab, the path or the wall the stone is going onto was built for whatever was on it before. That is the reverse of the position immediately over the northern boundary, where Rochedale is being developed as an integrated, master-planned community and the background arrives with the house. AS 3958:2023 covers preparation of the background and the bonded fixing and grouting of floor and wall tiles, and a stone job that ignores what is underneath fails at the substrate rather than at the stone.
Homeowners genuinely do succeed with this work. The business's own review feed describes a customer cladding a wall herself and another tiling behind a wood burner. But a substrate that is already down was laid for whatever was on it before, so on a retrofit it is what is underneath that decides the result rather than the stone on top.
We supply rather than install, so where a job needs a tiler it needs one working to the current standard. On the buying side, what customers describe is a quick phone call, knowledgeable staff putting together what was needed, then a quick pickup — at Springwood, which is in Logan City like Rochedale South.
About the supplier
Why Stone and Rock
Stone and Rock has no branch, office or showroom in Rochedale South. The nearest real premises is the Springwood warehouse at 3362 Pacific Highway, with display walls and pickup available: Monday to Thursday 8am to 4pm, Friday 7am to 12pm, Saturday 9am to 2pm, closed Sunday. It shares a council area with the job: Rochedale South is locality 2381 in Logan City, while Rochedale, one word shorter and over the northern boundary, is locality 2379 in Brisbane City.
The range runs across travertine, limestone, marble and granite tiles and pavers, plus pool tiles, wall cladding, crazy paving and sealers, so a staged retrofit taking in an alfresco, a pool surround and a feature wall can be matched in one order. On sourcing, the company's own account is that it buys with no middlemen, dealing directly with mines, quarries or factories; that is Stone and Rock's statement rather than an independently verified supply chain, and no quarry, supplier or country of origin is published. Customers describe how this works in practice as a quick phone call, knowledgeable staff putting together what was needed, then a quick pickup.
Nearby & related
Natural stone across Logan and Brisbane's southside
Questions we hear
Rochedale South stone FAQ
Rochedale or Rochedale South: which council do I actually deal with?⌄
Logan City Council, if the address is Rochedale South. The Queensland Government's locality boundaries record Rochedale South (locality 2381) in Logan City and Rochedale (2379) in Brisbane City, and Brisbane City Council's own suburb dataset contains Rochedale but no Rochedale South at all. It matters most for anything on the road reserve: Logan City Council administers an approval for works on public areas and roads, under the Local Government Act 2009, covering driveway and footpath construction or repair, crossover kerb and channel, excavation of a roadway, footway or drain, and depositing materials. Rochedale South shares that council with Springwood, Daisy Hill, Shailer Park and Underwood.
Can I pick up my order, and where from?⌄
Yes, from the Springwood warehouse at 3362 Pacific Highway. It has display walls and pickup is available, Monday to Thursday 8am to 4pm, Friday 7am to 12pm and Saturday 9am to 2pm, closed Sunday. Springwood is in Logan City, the same council area as Rochedale South. There is no Stone and Rock branch, office or showroom in Rochedale South itself. The pattern customers describe is a phone call first, knowledgeable staff putting the order together, then a quick pickup, which suits a suburb where the average household runs two motor vehicles.
Do you deliver to Rochedale South?⌄
Nothing published answers that, so this page will not answer it either. Delivery is one of the six questions Stone and Rock puts in its own published FAQ set, and one customer describes ordering and delivery as part of a good experience, but as at 10 August 2026 no delivery terms for this area are published: not a delivery area, not a fee, not a minimum order, not a lead time, and not confirmation that Rochedale South is covered at all. Ring 1300 113 260 to confirm coverage and cost for your address before you order. It is worth being precise about the name when you do: Rochedale South is locality 2381 in Logan City, while Rochedale is locality 2379, a different suburb in Brisbane City over the northern boundary, and Brisbane City Council's own suburb dataset holds no record of Rochedale South at all. What can be described precisely is pickup: the Springwood warehouse has display walls and pickup is available, Monday to Thursday 8am to 4pm, Friday 7am to 12pm and Saturday 9am to 2pm, closed Sunday, and Springwood is in Logan City, the same council area as Rochedale South.
We are partway through a renovation and have not chosen finishes. When should we look at stone?⌄
Sooner than the equivalent job over the boundary, because here the reference already exists. In Rochedale, the community Brisbane's City Plan sets out to develop as an integrated, master-planned whole, a stone selection usually waits on a build programme that has not produced the surrounding finishes yet. In Rochedale South those finishes are already there and none of them is waiting on you: the roof colour, the brickwork or render, the window frames, and the level of the slab or path the new surface has to meet are all fixed. So there is nothing to hold for. Order up to three samples now, which ship within three working days from Queensland with the cost credited against your purchase, and judge them against the actual wall in the actual light rather than against a schedule. If the job touches the driveway crossover or sits near a pool barrier, check Logan City Council's approval and the barrier clearances while the design is still open rather than after the stone arrives.
Can we lay the pavers or cladding ourselves to save money?⌄
Some jobs, yes. Stone and Rock's own review feed includes homeowners who clad a wall themselves and tiled behind a wood burner, and were happy with the result. What decides it in Rochedale South is usually the join rather than the laying: a retrofit area has to meet paving, a path or a slab that is already at a set level and already a set colour, which is the reverse of the position over the northern boundary in Rochedale, where the surrounding levels are set by the build itself. Buy it the way the suburb buys it, one area at a time on a household budget, and use up to three samples to check the finish against what is already down before you commit. AS 3958:2023 is the current Australian Standard for installing ceramic and stone tiles and covers preparation of the background as well as bonded fixing and grouting. Stone and Rock supplies rather than installs, so have a tiler assess what is underneath before you order.
Does new outdoor stone need sealing here?⌄
Treat it as part of the job rather than an optional extra. South East Queensland is National Construction Code climate zone 2, described by the Queensland Government as having warm humid summers and mild winters, and porous stone in those conditions stays damp longer and marks more readily. A Rochedale South buyer has a reading a new build does not: the surface being replaced has already sat through those summers in this exact position, so the shaded corner, the damp edge and the sun-hit run of the area have each already shown you what they do. Nobody specifying a surround inside the master-planned build over the northern boundary in Rochedale has that yet. Use it, because the type of sealer matters more than the brand: an impregnating sealer is absorbed into the stone rather than forming a surface film, and stays breathable so water vapour escapes freely rather than building up inside the treated material. Sealers are stocked alongside the stone so both go into the one pickup at Springwood, which is in Logan City like Rochedale South. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for application and re-treatment; we do not publish a resealing interval because no independent source for one was found.
Is Stone and Rock cheaper than the big chains?⌄
This page does not quote prices, and the fair comparison is the same stone, thickness and finish across the finished area rather than a headline rate, which is why the product pages carry the current figures. There is also a cost a retrofit suburb carries that a build-out one does not. Rochedale South work is typically staged, one area at a time on a household budget, so the area you lay next has to match the area you laid last, which makes matching across stages part of the real price rather than an afterthought — where a buyer over the northern boundary in Rochedale is more often pricing a single scope inside a master-planned build. That is an argument for keeping the whole sequence inside one range: pavers, pool tiles, cladding and sealers all sit in the same catalogue and can be matched at the point of order. On why a specialist competes on stone at all, Stone and Rock's own account of its sourcing is that it buys with no middlemen, dealing directly with mines, quarries or factories. That is the company's own statement rather than an independently verified supply chain, and no quarry, supplier or country of origin is published. Weigh it against what you can check yourself: full display walls at Springwood, in the same Logan City council area as Rochedale South, and samples held against your own house.
What slip rating should I ask for around a pool or a wet entry?⌄
Ask for the P classification, not an R number. AS 4586-2013 classifies pedestrian surfaces by a wet pendulum test giving P0 to P5 and by an oil-wet inclining platform test giving R9 to R13, and the two are not interchangeable. In Rochedale South the question tends to land on the person who will actually walk the surface: 29.2% of the suburb's dwellings are owned outright, so the buyer choosing a replacement pool surround or wet entry has generally been using the one it replaces, through this climate, and already knows where it goes slippery underfoot. Bring that to the choice — it is not information available to someone specifying a surface in advance inside the master-planned build over the northern boundary in Rochedale. For a house, garage or pool surround, AS 4586 is referenced by NCC Volume One rather than Volume Two, which is the volume covering those buildings, so treat it as the specification to ask for rather than a code requirement on a home. Ask us for the P classification of the specific product and finish; where a tested classification is not available for a line, we will tell you instead of quoting a number.
Where to collect
The Springwood warehouse, same council area as Rochedale South
Springwood is in Logan City, the same council area as Rochedale South. There is no Stone and Rock branch, office or showroom in Rochedale South itself.
Ring and describe the area
Have the constraints to hand before you call
If the project is in Rochedale South, ring 1300 113 260 and describe the area and the surface the new stone has to meet. What customers describe from there is a quick phone call, knowledgeable staff putting together what was needed, then a quick pickup — at Springwood, inside trading hours: Monday to Thursday 8am to 4pm, Friday morning until 12pm, or Saturday 9am to 2pm. Have the constraints to hand before you ring, because on a Rochedale South job they are already on the ground rather than still on a plan the way they are over the northern boundary in Rochedale: the level the new paving has to meet, the brick or render colour it sits against, and the planting already grown in beside a pool barrier.
If you want to judge colour against your own brickwork and your own light first, take up to three samples, which ship within three working days from Queensland with the cost credited against your purchase. Two things are worth settling before the order rather than after: Logan City Council's approval for works on public areas and roads, which covers the crossover section of a driveway, and the 900mm non-climbable zone in Queensland's pool safety standard, which decides what can sit next to a barrier.
