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Straight answers on materials, costs and what actually lasts — written from jobs we have completed, with the figures those jobs came to. No supplier copy, no filler.
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Porcelain is roughly a third more to install than sandstone. Over fifteen years it is the cheaper surface by a wide margin. Here is the arithmetic, and the laying detail that makes or breaks it.
Most gardens get used for about three months a year. Lighting is the cheapest single thing you can add to a build that changes that — but only if it goes in before the surfaces do.
We have gone back to decks we built in both materials. Here is what actually happened to them, what each one really costs over ten years, and when timber is still the right call.
Badly laid artificial grass looks like a carpet in a beer garden and smells by August. Laid properly it solves problems a real lawn never will. The whole difference is underneath.
Almost every failed driveway we are called to has good paving sat on a bad base. Here is what actually goes wrong underneath, and the six things to check on a quote before you sign it.
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