Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:47 pm
I'll enclose a few photos showing the patio area. I laid the patio and retaining wall many years ago; I've rejointed it, and as it looks a bit better now I wanted to replace the crappy job I did way back when I had white chippings between lawn and patio wall. I'm still not sure whether to use chippings or paving this time, but my main concern is to do the job right. We're on clay, next to the local municipal golf course, not the worst clay; garden/lawn slopes away from house and patio, and patio has slight incline that way too. The bottom only gets lying water after very heavy, consistent rain. Years ago, when I was stronger and more active - now 73! - I put in soakaways and drainage away from garage roof, but as I've read Tony somewhere, if you have nowhere to drain to then what's the point?
The patio is some 30 yards wide; the lawn the same length. I'm thinking of a slightly wider channel, maybe 20cm, for chipping, if I found really nice paving slabs, definitely wider. Could someone advise what to underlay any chippings with in order to allow rainwater to eventually drain away and dirt brushed off patio to also drop away, leaving chippings clean. I get no problem with cleanliness in the area in the photo laid with pea gravel, but it's quite large. If I went with some sort of paving would I be right in laying it in a bed of cement? My daughter says why not put the whole thing back to grass? If I did that could I leave the channel I've got, fill with rubble and smaller stuff and lay just a thinnish layer of soil under turf to use up rubble I've got? Hope the photos come through!
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The patio is some 30 yards wide; the lawn the same length. I'm thinking of a slightly wider channel, maybe 20cm, for chipping, if I found really nice paving slabs, definitely wider. Could someone advise what to underlay any chippings with in order to allow rainwater to eventually drain away and dirt brushed off patio to also drop away, leaving chippings clean. I get no problem with cleanliness in the area in the photo laid with pea gravel, but it's quite large. If I went with some sort of paving would I be right in laying it in a bed of cement? My daughter says why not put the whole thing back to grass? If I did that could I leave the channel I've got, fill with rubble and smaller stuff and lay just a thinnish layer of soil under turf to use up rubble I've got? Hope the photos come through!
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