We are a family run business based in Old Town, Swindon, specialising in well-designed driveways, patios and landscaping, with tarmac installation, repairs and resurfacing handled by the same team.
Block paving, tarmac and resin, plus the groundwork and drainage that decide how long they last.
Driveways laid to a proper sub-base with restrained edges, so they stay flat under a car.
New tarmac surfaces, repairs and resurfacing, from patching to the full drive.
Well-designed, attractive patios, built to drain and built to last.
We assist you every step of the way with the council application for a dropped kerb, then build it.
The maintenance and building of high-quality gardens around the paving.
The details that frame a drive and keep the edges crisp.
We are a family run business based in Old Town, Swindon, with over twenty years of experience in driveways, patios and landscaping. We pride ourselves on our reputation for reliability, high-quality workmanship and customer service, and we cover a wide area around Swindon including Cirencester, Chippenham, Marlborough, Oxford, Newbury and Reading.
Materials and methods we would use on our own place. The work should still look right years from now.
We do the small things properly: edges, corners, the parts nobody photographs.
You will know what is happening and when. If something changes, you hear it from us first.
Your time, your home, your neighbours. We work like guests, because we are.
What people said once the work was finished.
“Hard working, trustworthy, reliable. These guys do brilliant work and are perfectionists. Love our new driveways!”
“I’m very happy with my new driveway and would recommend Sidney as he was very professional and made a great job.”
“Amazing workmanship. Friendly, efficient and professional service from start to finish. My garden is perfect.”
Every job runs the same way, so you always know what happens next.
Someone comes out, looks at the job properly and talks it through with you: what is involved, what the options are, and anything that needs checking first. You get a quote from that visit.
Once you are happy, the job goes in the diary. You know what is being done, who is coming and when.
The job is completed as agreed and the site is left tidy, with the waste taken away.
We cover a comfortable radius rather than a fixed boundary. If you are near the edge of it, it is worth a call to check.
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If you lay more than five square metres of new impermeable surface, yes, unless the water drains to a permeable area within your own property. Permeable paving, gravel, or a channel feeding a border normally keeps the job inside permitted development.
What is underneath. A patio needs excavating to a proper depth and a sub-base of crushed stone compacted in layers before anything is laid. Paving put straight onto soil or an old surface looks identical on the day and starts rocking and opening at the joints within a few seasons.
It has to finish far enough below the damp proof course that rain splashing off it cannot bridge into the wall, and it has to fall away from the building. Paving laid too high against a house causes damp inside, which costs far more to put right than the patio did.
Concrete is cheapest and can fade over time. Natural stone has real variation, is porous and benefits from sealing. Porcelain resists staining and algae and holds its colour, but costs more to buy and to lay because it needs specific cutting equipment and a slurry primer. None is simply better; they differ in maintenance.
It depends far more on access and ground conditions than on size. A rear garden reachable only through the house changes the method for every stage, and heavy clay in winter slows the excavation stages for reasons nobody controls.
Access first, then anything that gets buried such as drainage and ducting, then levels and structures, then hard surfaces, and soft landscaping last so finished surfaces are not worked over by machinery.
Useful whether you call us or not. These are the parts of landscaping that cost people money when they are not known in advance.
Over five square metres of new sealed surface in your front garden needs planning permission, unless the water drains to a permeable area on your own land. Permeable paving, gravel or a channel into a border keeps you inside the rules. The most commonly missed rule in domestic landscaping: settle it before you order.
Your patio is only as good as what is under it: proper excavation, stone compacted in layers, then the paving. Slabs laid onto soil or an old surface are why patios sink and rock. When you compare quotes, compare excavation depth and build-up, because that is where the price difference hides and you cannot see it once finished.
Paving by your house must fall away from the building and finish safely below the damp proof course, or rain bridges into the wall. A patio that looks flat is built with a deliberate slight slope. Get this wrong and the bill is damp inside your house, not a patio repair.