Patios & Driveways in Wigan
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 seven miles from our Leigh base.
Patios & Driveways for Wigan Gardens
On Wigan’s terraced streets, turning a front garden into off-road parking is one of the most-requested jobs we price, done properly, with a real sub-base, solid edging and drainage that keeps rainwater on your side of the boundary. Out among the semis it’s more often a tired back patio being replaced in porcelain or Indian stone.
We cover Wigan and the surrounding area: Scholes, Whelley, Swinley, Beech Hill, Worsley Mesnes and beyond (WN1, WN2, WN3, WN6).
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What’s Included
Whatever the surface, we build from the ground up: full dig-out, compacted MOT stone, correct falls. Paving that gets that treatment stays flat under a car or a dining set for decades; paving that doesn’t will rock and puddle within a couple of winters.
- 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 Wigan, FAQs
If the car has to cross a footpath to reach it, yes: dropped kerb applications go through Wigan Council and the crossing must be built to their specification. We can point you at the process and build the driveway side to match.
Porcelain wins on staying clean. It shrugs off moss and algae in our wet climate. Indian stone costs a little less and weathers into a softer, more natural look. We bring samples to the quote so you can decide in your own garden.
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.
Usually not. Under permitted development rules you can pave a front garden without permission as long as the surface is permeable, or rainwater drains to a lawn or border within your own boundary. Permission only comes into it when more than five square metres of impermeable paving drains straight onto the road, and we design driveways so it doesn’t.
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.