Patios in Lowton
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 three miles from our Leigh base.
Patios for Lowton Gardens
The bigger family gardens around Lowton Common and St Mary’s have the room for a proper patio, somewhere for a table, chairs and the evening sun rather than a token square by the back door. We set the seating area where it catches the light at the end of the day and, on the plots that back onto the open fields towards Kenyon, where it gets some shelter from the wind.
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
Each flag is bedded on a full mortar bed so the finished surface is solid with no rock in it. You can choose porcelain, Indian stone or traditional flagging, and we’ll give you the real trade-offs on cost, upkeep and looks so the money goes where you want it.
- 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 Lowton, FAQs
As a rough guide a table and six chairs wants around four metres by four to move around comfortably, and a bit more if you want a separate seating or barbecue area. Lowton’s family gardens usually have the space for it, and we’ll mark it out on the ground at the quote so you can picture the size before committing.
Not if they’re done properly first time. We point the joints solid, which locks the flags together and leaves weeds and moss nowhere to root, so an occasional sweep and wash is all it takes. Patios that grow weeds up the joints were usually laid on dabs with the gaps left open.
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.