Pavescape

Our work: driveways, patios, lawns and groundworks

Jobs from our own sites, with before and after photos and the stages in between.

Garden: mid-build and finished

The same corner of a garden while the porcelain was going down, and once it was done. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys.

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The same garden finished, with porcelain paving, white gravel, a drainage channel and artificial lawn
A garden mid-build, with porcelain slabs being laid on a sand bed and a drainage channel along the edge
Mid-buildFinished

Garden, stage by stage

A back garden turned into a porcelain patio, white gravel path, drainage channel and lawn.

  1. 1A dry back lawn before groundworks, with a dark fence and a brick house behind

    BeforeThe dry lawn before we started.

  2. 2Garden groundworks under way, with a drainage channel, a pipe run and a cement mixer

    GroundworksLevels set, drainage channel and pipe in.

  3. 3Laying a porcelain patio on a prepared base, with a wheelbarrow of mortar beside the work

    LayingPorcelain set onto a prepared bed.

  4. 4Porcelain patio with a stepping stone path through white gravel, a lawn and a dark fence

    FinishedPatio, gravel path and lawn.

Porcelain patio with a stepping stone path through white gravel, a lawn and a dark fence
Porcelain path through white gravel and a lawn, with a black drain channel across the front
Large porcelain patio slabs leading to white gravel and a lawn
Porcelain stepping slabs through white gravel beside a lawn and a dark fence
Porcelain paving, white gravel and a lawn with a black drainage channel along the edge
Patio under a pergola looking across white gravel and a lawn to the garden fence
The same view of the driveway after the new tarmac surface was laid
The driveway site before work started
BeforeAfter

The driveway result

The same view before we started and after the surface went down. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys.

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Gated tarmac driveway, in build order

Mini digger excavating a driveway down to firm ground
Stage 1. A mini digger takes the old surface and soft soil down to firm ground.
Tracked mini digger beside a pile of sub-base stone on a driveway
Stage 2. Sub-base stone is delivered, spread and levelled.
Groundworks team grading sub-base stone with a mini digger at a driveway entrance
Stage 2. The team grades the stone by hand and with the digger bucket.
Twin drum roller compacting stone sub-base beside a brick wall
Stage 3. A twin drum roller compacts the stone in layers.
Two groundworkers laying edging and a slate border beside new gates
Edging and a slate border go in alongside the new surface.
New tarmac driveway curving past a brick wall to black metal gates
Stage 4. The finished tarmac, with edging along the border.
Fresh tarmac driveway beside a curved brick wall and an open gate
The finished drive from the gate end.
Finished tarmac driveway leading to a brick wall and black metal gates
The finished drive from the road, with the gates behind.
Completed tarmac driveway with two traffic cones in front of gates and a house
The completed entrance, with cones still out while the tarmac cools.
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Turf lawn, stage by stage

Soil prepared with a mini digger, then turf laid in rows and finished against the patio.

  1. 1A mini digger preparing soil for turf beside a paved patio

    Dig and prepareA mini digger breaks and levels the soil.

  2. 2Prepared soil bed running alongside a patio before turf goes down

    Ready for turfA clean edge against the patio.

  3. 3Turf being laid in rows along a timber fence

    LayingRows laid tight along the fence.

  4. 4A newly turfed lawn beside a patio and a closeboard fence

    FinishedThe finished lawn.

Watch the turf go down

A short clip from the lawn job above.

Turf going down on a garden job.

Tarmac, kerbs and edging

Smaller tarmac jobs, from dropped kerb accesses to bays and edged drives.

A new tarmac dropped kerb access with a barrier and a cone
A new tarmac dropped kerb access.
A new tarmac access beside the road, with a plate compactor and a barrier
A new access, compacted with a plate compactor.
A tarmac bay with a concrete kerb edge in a car park
A tarmac bay with a concrete kerb edge.
A tarmac drive curving around a granite kerb beside a rendered wall
A drive curving around a granite kerb.
A fresh tarmac drive beside a white rendered wall and a house
A fresh tarmac drive beside a rendered wall.
A sandstone paved path next to a tarmac strip and a granite kerb
A sandstone path with a tarmac strip and granite kerb.

Block paving

Block paved drives, paths and door steps.

A block paved drive in front of a brick house with a new fence
A block paved drive with a new fence.
A block paved path with a timber sleeper edge running through a lawn
A block paved path with a sleeper edge.
Block paving up to a front door step
Block paving up to a front door step.

Drainage

Drain connections and repairs, made in the trench before anything goes on top.

A drainage pipe connection made in a trench with a coupling
A drain connection with a coupling.
A drainage pipe repair using a collar in an excavated trench
A drain repair with a collar.

We add new jobs here as we finish them.

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