Patio Suppliers

[craig@rewind]

Can anyone recommend a decent patio supplier in Essex please? Preferably one you have used because after seeing Builders From Hell, there are some right cowboys out there! :eek:

[Bapapapa]

Get the Thompsons out, find a few suppliers and go and see some examples of their work.

[Just]

Lay it yourself and spend the extra on better slabs. Unless there is something unusual would only take a couple of weekends if that.

[craig@rewind]

Originally posted by Just
Lay it yourself and spend the extra on better slabs. Unless there is something unusual would only take a couple of weekends if that.

I was considering doing that. It's just that everything that has been done to our house by previous owners was bodged! I have taken up a couple of slabs and it looks like it is crazy paving under there which would need a pneumatic drill to get it up!

[craig@rewind]

Originally posted by Bapapapa
Get the Thompsons out, find a few suppliers and go and see some examples of their work.

Thanks but their examples could be the showcases. For all I know, they could have bodged up other jobs, no?

[Just]

If the crazy paving is level and sound then you are sorted. Take up the crap slabs, dust over with some sharp sand and lay the new slabs.

[craig@rewind]

I don't think it is even. :(

[ahenry]

http://www.pavingexpert.com/patio01.htm is a good site for working out what you want, and how to write a proper spec eg
http://www.pavingexpert.com/specs01.htm#flags

[Mork]

Try this!
www.instantpatios-justaddwater.co.uk (http://www.cement.bluecircle.co.uk)