The problem
The digging left a severe drop right outside the back door. Cathy couldn't safely step out of her own house.
How we solved it
We stepped in and made the site safe first, then built a permanent solution in its place.
All our work
The site rescue and restoration
A garden left half dug by another firm, made safe and rebuilt with a porcelain patio and lawn.
Luton, finished
- Town
- Luton
- Postcode
- LU5
- Days on site
- 14
- Material
- Porcelain
- Area
- 100 m²
- Finished
- June 2025
// The brief
Half dug and abandoned.
Another firm dug out Cathy's garden and walked off, leaving it unsafe and unusable for over a month.
This project started as the kind of situation no homeowner wants. The previous contractors had dug out the whole garden and then left the site.
Cathy was stressed, out of pocket and without a garden.
// Before and after
Her garden back, in 14 days.
Both are real photos of this job, taken before we started and when we finished.
// What we did
What we changed.
Over 14 days we turned the site into a usable outdoor living space. We laid a 900x600mm grey porcelain patio, using a contrasting charcoal brush-in grout for a clean, modern finish.
Finally, we laid fresh, levelled turf and built a solid, load-bearing base for a new shed at the rear, giving Cathy her garden back.
- Grey porcelain patio
- Charcoal brush-in grout
- Sleeper retaining wall with bench seating
- Levelled turf
- New shed base
// Problems we solved
What we had to work out.
The problem
The levels changed down the alleyway.
How we solved it
We built a sleeper retaining wall to manage them, and made it double as built-in bench seating.
Welwyn
The sloped garden reclamation
A muddy front slope turned into two level tiers, with a new fence round the boundary.
Langford
The curved sandstone garden
A garden paved wall to wall, opened up with curved paving, two lawns and proper drainage.
Luton
The Luton sandstone patio and steps
A sloping, overgrown garden turned into a sandstone patio, steps and a new lawn, with every load carried through the house.
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Where we work. Dunstable, Luton, Leighton Buzzard, St Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, and the towns and villages in between.