garden

I have got an issue trying to match these slabs, I took them into a local merchants and were told they were originally a black limestone, obviously getting a brand new slab the colour is a deep black. Is there any way to get these to fade rapidly? Need to basically strip the colour off to match...

Hi all, Just took up some decking and patio that was laid over the concrete pad. Going to lay a new patio down over it. Seeing it recommends a 100mm sub base for a patio. Current concrete path is 70mm. It’s started to sink towards the end as you can see on the photos. Would you remove the...

hi all, im looking to redesign my front garden bed but before doing so i want to prep the area and plan ahead. as you can see there is soil all the way up to the wall of my house. I am hoping to put a thin gravel border surrounding the brick wall to come between the wall and the rest of the bed...

Understanding that this falls under Part-P and controlled regulations (BS 7671:2018+A2:2022), there'll need to be sign off authority... I am looking at planning a new patio area with a water feature, lights, outside sockets and a hot tub. After reviewing the power requirements, I believe I'll...

Anybody have any thoughts on using a concrete repair spur post in place a wooden post altogether to secure wooden sleepers for a retaining wall. My plan was to use them to hold back some earth and I would place them behind the sleepers so I would have to drill into the concrete post fix the...

Can anyone suggest a filler to fix a hole in the bottom of a Garden Waste Wheelie BIn? Someone was burning old documents and put the ashes in it some where still hot though even after 24 hrs...

Evening all, Just a quickie for the knowledgable, I want to create 4 pillars, 2 blocks x 2 blocks about 2m high. They will in the main be decorative to separate planted hedging, the middle 2 will support a 2m high timber gate though. It is just to separate a driveway from the rear garden as I...

Putting a lock on the wood gate and the instructions are minimal. I need to drill a 32mm hole for the barrel through 45mm thickness. Any recommendations for the best type of drill bit to use? I would have thought a wood bit but when looking at descriptions they say only good for thin materials...

Hi Have started raking out the joints in my patio but after about 4 rows I have noticed movement in the slabs. My question is as follows: is it worth pointing these back up and doing the patio in sections to prevent the movement in the slabs or just carry on ripping out the existing mortar...

Can anyone tell me what ratio of sand, cement and aggregate I should use for footings for a small wall? Also what ratio for cementing concrete blocks?

Hi all Looking for some pointers, I'm looking to put down some concrete foundations for a shed, however the area for the shed has a retaining wall that ends about 70 cms before the area If I put concrete on this raised part I'm worried the soil will over time become loose and come away, so...

I have a slightly sloping front garden. I want to make it more low maintenance as the grass and weeds grow like wildfire and I don't have the time to keep de-weeding etc. I wanted to use weed membrane and gravel with possibly sleeper rails to stop the gravel moving down into and through the...

Hi all, I have a small front garden and I am planning on laying edging stones (brick shaped) along two edges. I figure about 15cm wide (stones are 10cm wide), a few cm deep as a bed and total length is around 10m - 12m It's only to have a nice edge between grass and borders so no foot...

Hi Folks, I moved into a house that had an existing SWA cable (20mm, 4-core) going from the house CU (RCD) up the garden to a smaller CU in a brick shed. When the house clearance people were clearing the garden they thought it wise to burn the old weeds and ended up burning through the SWA's...

When we moved into our house the whole back garden was concreted over. So I removed all the concrete filtered out as much debris as I could from the soil, tamped it down by foot and then bought a sizeable amount of topsoil (prob around 5 tonnes if I recall) and laid it on the garden. I then...

I've just finished renovating our 1930s house and the builder ran a 25m length of 15mm PEX pipe outside for me to use in the garden (it's ~5m of 15mm from the kitchen tap). I tested and get 14l/min at the end of the 25m pipe (while I get 18l/min from the bath upstairs) I plan to run it 15m up...

Hi there, planning to build a flat roofed garden workshop (that will be converted to a garden office one day). Approximate dimensions are 5 x 2.4m, coming in under the 2.5m permitted development next to a boundary requirements. Trying to buy back interior height wherever possible from this...

I have a wooden pergola lean to against my property. I have purchased some clear acrylic polycarbonate sheet roofing in a roll. I want to secure this to the pergola but allow it to “wiggle” in the wind to some extent - probably only in high winds as the area pick up some gusts. Is there a...

We have a good concrete base left after removing old shed. We would like to tile over the concrete but not sure how to do this - hope someone can help?

We bought our house last year and we're now trying to fix up the front and need advice. We have a small space at the front of the house (6m x 2.5m) plus a side section (1m x 12m) that's currently gravelled with very old concrete path that needs replacing. The gravel doesn't work for a couple...