Re: Up The Garden Path
Thanks Mups and Percy, originally it was going to be cobbles laid on a one inch concrete base and a screed of sharp sand but, the wife has a pathological dislike of weeds so I purchased the slabs, the cobbles were about 60mm deep and the slabs only about 30mm, so, I had to lay another inch and a half concrete sub base to keep to level. Just past the step between the dwarf walls is a drainage grid beneath which is a buried soakaway chamber.Re: Up The Garden Path
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Looking good Spitty. Pity I don't live closer as I have a lawn lute which would prove mightily handy for preparing the soil for the new lawn. Used it to create a really flat surface over a period of 3 weeks (to give time to eliminate any initial weeds and hollows/bumps to be dealt with - I had double digged the entire surface as it very compacted!!).Re: Up The Garden Path
Hi Dex, the area on the left (by the motorcycle cover) is 12 metres long by two metres wide, It is surrounded by the path, and block paviors set in and concreted to the gravel boards to the fence, All set to level the existing soil being recessed to a depth of about 60mm. I intend to barrow in 3 tonnes ofRe: Up The Garden Path
Cheers Barry, when we moved in, in 96, there was one of those lean to's across the back of the house, probably constructed early 70's. It had the reinforced glass roof and timber framed window sections on top of dwarf brick walls, the wooden structure was well past it's sell by date but we lived with it for a few years, if you look just below the satellite dish, you can see where the brickwork is a different colour (where it was painted when internal) and the damage where the brickwork of the lean to was tied to the house. I haven't dealt with that yet because we were toying with the idea of making the conservatory wider, to form a large kitchen, which I will only do if were are considering staying here foer 5 or more years.
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