I am renovating my garden. It's about 15m wide by 5m deep, enclosed on the 3 boundary sides by garden walls. At the moment the roof drains through pipes which run to a very small rudimentary soakaway in the middle of the garden. I am planning on laying a new patio and need to deal with the surface w...
I’m rendering a garden wall this weekend (concrete blocks 7n). It’s been suggested I paint an SBR coat on before applying the scratchcoat. I use SBR in mixes but haven’t applied before the scratch before. Reading the instructions it suggests a slurry mix of SBR, water and cement - is this right? If ...
I’m building two raised planters. Their height will be about 500mm above ground level. 600-650mm in total. one of the planters is 1.8m wide and the other is 5m wide. Both are 1.1m deep (front to back). im using concrete blocks, laid on a concrete footing which is 400mm thick. The soil underneath is ...
I have built a new wall in my garden. It's about 12m across the back and 6m down the side - L shape. It's built on 500mm wide footings, roughly 700mm deep. The wall height is up to 2m (some sections are lower with cladding ontop). The soil does have clay in it but does drain. I am about to replace t...
