Patios & Driveways in Lowton
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 three miles from our Leigh base.
Patios & Driveways for Lowton Gardens
Lowton is commuter country, and most households run two or more cars, so driveways are steady work for us here. We widen existing drives, replace cracked and sunken ones, and convert front gardens to parking with proper dig-out, a compacted MOT base and drainage that keeps rainwater off the road and away from the house.
We cover Lowton and the surrounding area: Lane Head, Lowton St Mary’s, Lowton Common, Lowton Village, Byrom and beyond (WA3).
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What’s Included
Round the back, a well-built patio makes the most of Lowton’s family-sized gardens. We lay porcelain, Indian stone and traditional flags, always with correct falls. The local clay holds water, and a patio that puddles was built wrong from the base up.
- 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 Lowton, FAQs
Usually not, as long as the surface drains. Permeable paving or falls to a border keep you within permitted development, and we build that in as standard. If you need the kerb dropped, that’s a separate application to Wigan Council, and we can point you in the right direction.
Yes, that token pad of flags by the back door is one of our most common upgrade jobs on the newer estates. We take it up and build a patio actually sized for a table, chairs and a barbecue.
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.