Patios in Astley
Patios built from the ground up in porcelain, Indian stone or traditional flagging, set on a full mortar bed over a compacted sub-base, with falls that carry rainwater away from your house and finish below the damp course. Around four miles from our Leigh base.
Patios for Astley Gardens
A patio in Astley is often about making a spot to sit out in a garden that catches plenty of open sky. On the plots backing onto the fields and the moss that means picking a sheltered corner away from the wind, while round the cottages at Astley Green a traditional flagged terrace tends to suit the older brick better.
We cover Astley and the surrounding area: Astley Green, Higher Green, Blackmoor, Cross Hillock, Astley Moss and beyond (M29).
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What’s Included
We lay porcelain, Indian stone and flagging, each flag set on a full mortar bed so nothing rocks or drums underfoot. We’ll talk you through the honest trade-offs: porcelain for low upkeep at a higher price, Indian stone for natural looks that want sealing, flagging for character on an older property.
- Porcelain, Indian stone and traditional flagging
- Full dig-out and compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base
- Every flag on a full mortar bed, not five dabs
- Falls set so water runs away from the house
- Finished below the damp proof course as standard
- Joints filled with mortar or resin against weeds
- Sunken or rocking flags lifted and relaid
How It Works
Patios in Astley, FAQs
We lay every patio to a fall that carries surface water off and away from the house, and where the ground itself is slow to drain near the moss we run that water to a drainage point rather than letting it pool. The flags sit on a full mortar bed on a proper base, so there are no soft spots for water to collect under.
A good two brick courses, around 150mm, below the damp proof course, with the surface falling away from the wall. That keeps rainwater from ever bridging up into the brickwork and causing damp inside, and we point the joints solid so weeds and moss can’t get a foothold.
Porcelain is dense, colour-consistent and barely stains, so a porcelain patio stays looking new with almost no upkeep, but it costs more and needs a skilled lay. Indian stone is natural, so every flag varies, and it weathers into the garden nicely at a lower price, though it benefits from an occasional clean and seal. Neither is wrong; it comes down to the look you want and the budget you’re working to.
A typical patio runs three to five days: dig-out and sub-base first, then the laying, then jointing once the beds have firmed up. Wet weather can stretch things slightly because mortar and jointing compounds need time to cure, and we’d rather wait a day than joint onto a bed that isn’t ready.
Nine times out of ten it was laid on sand or dabs of mortar with no proper sub-base, so the ground underneath has settled. If it’s a few flags, we can lift and relay them on fresh full beds, or repoint where the joints have just washed out. If the base has failed across the whole area, relaying the lot on a compacted sub-base is the honest fix, because patching a bad base only moves the problem along.