Patios & Driveways in Westhoughton
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 six miles from our Leigh base.
Patios & Driveways for Westhoughton Gardens
In a terraced yard off the streets around Westhoughton town centre, the patio often is the garden, so it’s worth doing well. We build patios in porcelain, Indian stone and traditional flags, from compact courtyard spaces to full-width family patios on the bigger plots out towards Wingates and Chequerbent, all laid on a proper compacted base with falls set away from the house.
We cover Westhoughton and the surrounding area: Wingates, Daisy Hill, Chequerbent, Chew Moor, Hart Common and beyond (BL5).
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What’s Included
Driveways are just as steady a trade here. Plenty of Westhoughton’s interwar semis have front gardens that owners want converting to off-road parking, and older drives that have sunk, cracked or grown a moss coat want replacing. We build for drainage from the start, so rainwater soaks away instead of sheeting towards your front door.
- 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 Westhoughton, FAQs
Not if the surface is permeable or the water drains within your own boundary. That stays within permitted development. Large areas of impermeable paving that drain to the road would need permission, so we simply design the drainage in and keep you clear of it.
A typical Westhoughton patio takes three to five days depending on size, access and how much dig-out the ground needs. We give you an honest timescale with the quote and keep the site tidy throughout.
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.
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. Patching a bad base just moves the problem.