Patios in Wigan
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 seven miles from our Leigh base.
Patios for Wigan Gardens
Out among Wigan’s semis the back patio is where the garden gets lived in, so we build it to be used, wide enough for a table and chairs and placed to catch the part of the day you’re actually out there. On the long, narrow terraced plots around Swinley we’ll often set the patio at the sunniest point rather than defaulting to right outside the back door.
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
You’ve a choice of porcelain, Indian stone or traditional flagging, and we’ll be straight about the trade-offs so you pick for your garden, not ours. Whatever the material, every flag beds on a full bed of mortar and the joints are pointed solid, which is what keeps a patio flat and weed-free through Wigan’s wet winters.
- 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 Wigan, FAQs
Decades, if the base and the bedding are right. The patios that fail early were spot-bedded on dabs with hollows underneath that fill with water and lift in a frost. Laid on a full mortar bed over a compacted base, a patio stays solid for the long haul.
Yes. We keep the finished paving at least 150mm below the damp proof course and fall it away from the wall, so rain runs off into the garden and can’t bridge up into the brickwork. Getting that wrong is what causes damp along the back wall.
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.