Patio repairs and groundworks in Wythenshawe
Our office is on Harper Road in M22, so Wythenshawe is not a town we travel to. It is the one we work in, and the one where we can be back the same week if something needs looking at.
Most of Wythenshawe was built between the wars as a garden city estate, and that shapes almost every job we quote here.
We are based here — five minutes from most of it.
What we see in Wythenshawe gardens
The interwar semis and short terraces were built with unusually long rear gardens for the size of the house. That is lovely to have and awkward to drain — a long garden has a long way to fall, and if nobody set a level when the patio went in, the fall often runs back towards the house rather than away from it.
The original paths are typically concrete flags laid straight onto soil. They last surprisingly well until something disturbs them, and then they go all at once. Most patios here were added later, in the seventies, eighties or nineties, almost always on a sand bed with no sub-base underneath.
The other recurring one is ground level. After decades of new turf, new borders and one patio laid on top of the last, the ground outside has crept up until it is level with or above the damp course. It is cheap to put right while we are already digging, and expensive to ignore.
What we are usually called out for here
- Patios laid on sand in the eighties, now dropping at the house wall
- Long gardens that fall the wrong way, with water collecting at the back door
- Original concrete flag paths that have lifted or cracked
- Ground built up above the damp-proof course
- Waterlogged lawns on the heavier ground towards the Mersey
What we do in Wythenshawe
Patio repairs
Sunken, rocking or uneven flags lifted and relaid on a base that holds.
£650 minimum
Block paving repairs
Dips, ruts and spreading blocks taken up and reset to the correct falls.
£650 minimum
Repointing and resanding
Failed pointing cut out and replaced. Block paving swept and re-sanded.
from £150
Garden drainage
Waterlogged lawns, standing water and patios that never dry out.
£800 – £1,500
Levelling and dig-outs
Ground raised, lowered or levelled. Old patios and bases taken out.
£1,000 – £2,000
Edgings and kerbs
The restraint that stops paving spreading in the first place.
Quoted per job
Also covering Baguley, Benchill, Northern Moor, Sharston, Woodhouse Park and Northenden. See every area we work in.
Got a job in Wythenshawe?
Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will tell you whether it is a repair or a relay. Quotes are free.