patio

I am about to lay a patio in my back garden and I have to do the fall towards the back of the house. I am putting channel drains across the back but I'm not sure how close to position them to my back wall. I'm working with three options: 1 - flush against wall 2 - a few cm away from wall so I...

Firstly, I have taken up old flags that were laid on perfectly fine sub base and looks like it's concrete on the top. Can I re lay Indian stone flags over this part? Secondly, I'm also extending the patio area, so wondering how deep I need to dig down from next to the top of the old concrete...

Hi all, My patio had a little wall type trough thing with some plants in it, it was right in the middle, so we ripped it out. Now, I just want to relay some bricks to meet with the patio slabs. It looks liek whoever did this originally, just laid the bricks on sand on top of the mud. There...

So I recently bought my first house, which has a rather steeply sloping garden (approx. 1 in 12). The slope falls away from the house. We’re looking at building a patio at the bottom of the garden (garden is East facing and the bottom gets most of the sun) which I’ll also be standing a good...

I've reached a challenging part of my patio - the recessed manhole cover. The challenge is, I've been left with a thin sliver of 5cm, as in this photo: Which option should I go with? #1. Cut 1 whole single slab in a U shape as the blue in the photo above. This surely risks the 4cm thin bit...

Hello, we have been going round in circles deciding what to do with our front porch area and I think we have finally finally decided what do to. We have a raised patio outside our font door which needs redoing. It has a concrete slab underneath Im thinking to edge the slab with sleepers, we...

Hi guys, we're laying some paving blocks down for our patio, and just wondered if we can use 20mm shingle instead of MOT type 1 as the first base under the grit/sand? Thanks!

Hi I’ve recently had a sandstone patio laid on compacted type 1 with wet bed by a landscaper. The last few days white marking is appearing on the slabs, if the slab is wet, these marks appear back really quickly, has anyone any idea what they are, what caused them and if they can be removed...

Hi guys, I just want to check with the masses here that what’s happening with our slabs is normal because the water doesn’t seem to be shifting off the edge of each tile. Has anyone seen the same as the attached and provide an opinion please? There doesn’t appear to be a lip on the tile keeping...

Hi, We've just laid a patio in our garden, and the people we got the sand from, just gave it to us not in a bag, so it was loose on our drive and we took it round to the garden and put it on the grass. We've managed to get what's left into Rubble bags to put on Facebook for free, but how do I...

After thinking of how best to renovate our front garden we came up with the idea of converting our cracking sinking side return patio / path to a deck. Here's a photo of it currently and what we are thinking. Possibly extending out a bit where the X is as a bin storage area. Inspiration...

Hi All would it be ok to use plastering sand to create the mortar to lay the paving slabs? Ive seen advice to use builders sand and shard sand but not plastering sand. Any help appreciated. Thank you

Hi. I'm in the process of using some mot type 1 as a sub base under a new patio. I've put 60mm down as first layer which I'll compact and then add to to make 100mm compacted. I've spread it out but before I compact first layer, I've noticed a couple of areas (each about 1 foot square) which...

Looking to lay a new patio. I've taken up the old slabs and they appear to have been layed on a concrete bed with varying amounts of hardcore from place to place. It looks like it's at least 10cm thick, maybe around 12cm. Under one of the flags some water got in and there is a bit of a hole now...

Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me. I use screwfix forums all the time to help me in DIY and all sorts, but i haven't been able to find a substantive answer to my question. Myself and my partner recently purchased our first home together, and we chose not to pay the huge amount...

Hello all, We are intending to build a new path and patio at the back of our 1890ish Victorian Terrace. We've removed a fairly naf old concrete path (no sub-base, no support) we are now excavating and setting out the levels for our new path and patio surface. The path runs down from the back...

We've recently had a new patio laid and a new retaining wall for our sloped garden. It rained heavily today for an hour or so and the drainage trench around the patio filled with water and hasn't drained into the ground. On the opposite side of the patio we've got drainage channels but the...

Looking for some advice. I've built an Oak framed veranda over my patio. To glaze I'll need 5nr 4200x885mm glass panels. I was looking at using 6mm toughened glass. So a few things: The glass is supported along the length of each long side, not a cross the ends. Will 6mm be thick enough to...

My seal has gone in large sliding patio door installed in 1993. I can't get the right side bead out because it's behind the the fixed side glass looking from inside (just a naff design) Was advised to take fixed right side glass out to gain access to bead, but I think I can lower the runner down...

Hi everyone, we have finally come round to tackling our front garden and would like to get some advice and opinions. We are trying to modernise it, make it look nice and no so broken looking.. The front garden is raised above the front path and the house is raised above the garden. There is a...