Patios & Driveways in Golborne
Patios and driveways built from the ground up: proper excavation, a compacted sub-base and falls that carry water away from your house, in porcelain, Indian stone, flags or block paving. Around four miles from our Leigh base.
Patios & Driveways for Golborne Gardens
Plenty of Golborne gardens are made by their paving. In a terraced back yard, the patio essentially is the garden, so it has to be dead level, well drained and worth looking at. In the bigger gardens off Park Road and around the estates, a properly built patio turns the sunniest corner into the room you use most from May to September.
We cover Golborne and the surrounding area: Bank Heath, Park Road, Stone Cross, Lowton, Lowton Common and beyond (WA3).
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What’s Included
Driveways are steady work here too. Off-road parking adds real value on Golborne’s busier streets. Whether it’s block paving, flags or a combination, we dig to a proper depth, compact a full MOT sub-base and set the falls so rainwater goes where it should. That last part isn’t optional: get drainage right and a new drive needs no planning permission.
- Porcelain, Indian stone, flagging and block paving
- Full dig-out and compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base
- Correct falls so water runs away from the house
- Driveways designed to drain within your boundary
- Old patios and drives broken out and carted away
- Sunken or rocking flags relaid on fresh full beds
How It Works
Patios & Driveways in Golborne, FAQs
Yes, full-yard paving is a common Golborne job for us. Done well it’s low maintenance, drains properly and looks sharp; we can build in a planter or raised bed if you want some green without the upkeep.
Not if surface water is dealt with, permeable paving, or falls that send rain to a border or lawn rather than the street. We build every Golborne driveway to meet that as standard, so permission isn’t needed.
It depends on the size, the material and what we find when we dig. Porcelain costs more than Indian stone, with block paving somewhere between, but the excavation and sub-base are a fair chunk of the price whatever you lay on top. We price per job rather than a blanket rate per square metre, because a small fiddly patio costs more per metre to lay than a big open one, so you get an exact written figure after a free site visit before anything starts.
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.
A typical patio runs three to five days: dig-out and sub-base first, then the patio laying, then jointing once the beds have firmed up. Driveways are similar, sometimes a day or two longer for the extra depth of dig. Wet weather can stretch things slightly because mortar and jointing compounds need time to cure.