Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:13 pm
Hello guys
so my garden is dingy boring and not appealing at all and to top it off it slopes.
so i have set out to make it hopefully spectacular.....
any way its an L shaped garden the long bit of the L is 15m long and the short bit 12M i have a garage at the side of the garden that is single brick i want to raise that bit level so from the other bit the patio
u would step up to the long bit that would be turfed. i am building a 825mm wall double skinned wall with founds 55mm deep this will be tied into the garage wall that is single brick but i originally planned on just backing the earth up against the wall but then i got thinking about weight so should i ad another skin to it before back filling ? i will be adding perforated pipe for drainage the DPC is quite high and would cover most of the raised earth but some would go over it, with sufficient drainage would that still be OK?
and for a patio question as my garden slops I would like to raise the patio level by 2 standard brick height.
now most of this area already has a concrete patio on it but its groggy and not very pleasant although it is solid could i just add a sharp sand cement for the mortar layer or would that depth be to much ? it has drains and i don't fancy digging that up as its rather thick although i would need to raise the man hole and the other bit that has turf on i would obviously dig out and do the necessary layering to raise that side up.
hope that makes sense i have tried to add pics but its only letting me use web page images for some reason
regards
so my garden is dingy boring and not appealing at all and to top it off it slopes.
so i have set out to make it hopefully spectacular.....
any way its an L shaped garden the long bit of the L is 15m long and the short bit 12M i have a garage at the side of the garden that is single brick i want to raise that bit level so from the other bit the patio
u would step up to the long bit that would be turfed. i am building a 825mm wall double skinned wall with founds 55mm deep this will be tied into the garage wall that is single brick but i originally planned on just backing the earth up against the wall but then i got thinking about weight so should i ad another skin to it before back filling ? i will be adding perforated pipe for drainage the DPC is quite high and would cover most of the raised earth but some would go over it, with sufficient drainage would that still be OK?
and for a patio question as my garden slops I would like to raise the patio level by 2 standard brick height.
now most of this area already has a concrete patio on it but its groggy and not very pleasant although it is solid could i just add a sharp sand cement for the mortar layer or would that depth be to much ? it has drains and i don't fancy digging that up as its rather thick although i would need to raise the man hole and the other bit that has turf on i would obviously dig out and do the necessary layering to raise that side up.
hope that makes sense i have tried to add pics but its only letting me use web page images for some reason
regards