Landscaping a garden. New patio – Calcot / Reading.

Dec 10, 2018 | Landscaping

Landscaping back garden. New patio area in a garden in Calcot

Not beating about the bush let's see what the patio area looked like before and after.

And some still photos of the same area..

Our job was to remove old decking, clear out old patio, and gravel. Install new gully and channel drains including all the connections needed.

The next stage planned for this garden by the owners is to lay artificial grass - someone else's job as we don't do it.
Due to the above the edges around the new patio have been left as is.

A quick guide how to point a patio using a geo-fix jointing compound.

a really quick one 😉

Patio repointing

Proud of this quick but so beautifully finished patio pointing job in Reading. We haven’t laid the patio, but were asked to repoint it as whoever did lay it, put just a very weak mortar in joints. However even if that was a stronger mix it wouldn’t solve the issue. Cement / sand mix as a pointing compound is a cheapest option but never a quality one. Mortar cracks and crumbles .. You need a special pointing compound which we used here and use on many other landscaping projects that we do. It is not cheap but long lasting and very effective.

It is not our first job in this garden. In the past we relaid part of the lawn, scarified and reseeded the rest, laid brick edging, created a new flower bed including planting of our choice.

Photos below.