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What do you think of this,
Before it was all grass, which sloped upwards from the house to the back fence about 6 foot over 36 foot!! Its so steep you struggle to walk the last few feet to the back fence.
Took me and three mates a day to dig out the patio area which is 2 foot high, so had to dig out two foot of earth. Its 13 feet deep and 17 feet wide.
The garden is just over 75 feet long from front to back.
Took another day by myself to finish constructing the retaining walls, cover the entire garden in the weed block membrane after cutting the grass down to basically mud. Finish off the flower bed area and level the patio with sand ready for a patio to be layed in a few months.
Then a further day alone spreading 10 tonnes of limestone gravel.
Finished the bottom of the fence of yesterday with 150 feet of log roll to help stop weeds from growing through.
Going to get a patio over the next couple of months when the wife finally finds one she likes, Dave has given me details of a good supplier.
A landscape gardener qouted £4000 to do this,
Done it myself and its cost,
£320 for sleepers and posts
£30 for sleeper bolts
£50 for weed block matting
£300 for limestone gravel
£250 for log roll
£50 spent taking the mates out for a curry to say thanks
£25 for plum slate in flower bed, (which hardly touched the sides and needs topping up
£10 for swtich for victorian street light
£1035 if my maths skills havent escaped me, a £2965 saving and a whole lot of fun doing it (although i didnt think that pushing 10 tonnes of gravel about especially up the hill at the top of the garden!!
The victorian street light itself and the circular solar lights were a gift from my dear old mum.
So what do you all reckon, im pretty pleased with it myself, the log rolls were only done yesterday and only cut and treated for me the day before, they will weather to the colour of the fence over the next month on so.
They need a bit of further tapping as some are a bit wonky, should have probably picked the dog much up aswell before i took the photos :lol:
Before it was all grass, which sloped upwards from the house to the back fence about 6 foot over 36 foot!! Its so steep you struggle to walk the last few feet to the back fence.
Took me and three mates a day to dig out the patio area which is 2 foot high, so had to dig out two foot of earth. Its 13 feet deep and 17 feet wide.
The garden is just over 75 feet long from front to back.
Took another day by myself to finish constructing the retaining walls, cover the entire garden in the weed block membrane after cutting the grass down to basically mud. Finish off the flower bed area and level the patio with sand ready for a patio to be layed in a few months.
Then a further day alone spreading 10 tonnes of limestone gravel.
Finished the bottom of the fence of yesterday with 150 feet of log roll to help stop weeds from growing through.
Going to get a patio over the next couple of months when the wife finally finds one she likes, Dave has given me details of a good supplier.
A landscape gardener qouted £4000 to do this,
Done it myself and its cost,
£320 for sleepers and posts
£30 for sleeper bolts
£50 for weed block matting
£300 for limestone gravel
£250 for log roll
£50 spent taking the mates out for a curry to say thanks
£25 for plum slate in flower bed, (which hardly touched the sides and needs topping up
£10 for swtich for victorian street light
£1035 if my maths skills havent escaped me, a £2965 saving and a whole lot of fun doing it (although i didnt think that pushing 10 tonnes of gravel about especially up the hill at the top of the garden!!
The victorian street light itself and the circular solar lights were a gift from my dear old mum.
So what do you all reckon, im pretty pleased with it myself, the log rolls were only done yesterday and only cut and treated for me the day before, they will weather to the colour of the fence over the next month on so.
They need a bit of further tapping as some are a bit wonky, should have probably picked the dog much up aswell before i took the photos :lol:
