Patios for homes in Ordsall
A patio is where the garden actually gets used, so it is worth getting the size and position right before a single slab goes down. We look at where the sun sits through the day, how the space runs off the back door, and whether you want one large area or a couple of smaller ones linked by paths and steps. Then we build it properly — excavated, a compacted base, laid on a full mortar bed rather than dabs, with the falls set so surface water runs away from the house rather than sitting in the middle of the slabs. Sandstone, porcelain, and matching steps, paths and edging so the whole thing reads as one piece of work.
Working in Ordsall
Ordsall sits on the southern side of Retford and combines an older village core around the church with extensive twentieth-century suburban development that has joined it to the town. The suburban housing is the bulk of it — inter-war and post-war semis and detached properties on regular plots, with frontages that were laid out as front gardens and rear gardens of a workable length. Those frontages convert well into proper driveways once the original narrow strip is lifted and a full-width base is built. The ground here is level, as it is across most of Retford, which means falls and drainage have to be set out deliberately: permeable resin surfacing and properly planned soakaways or channels do real work on flat sites like these.
What's included
- Positioned around sun, access and how you use the space
- Laid on a full mortar bed, not spot dabs
- Falls set to run water away from the property
- Matching steps, paths and edging