This new project in Shenfield is under way, the Oakleigh team have been making a start with the 1st phase of the rear garden works. We have cleared the large overgrown rear garden of all unwanted vegetation, the old lawn and planting areas have been left to their own devices for a couple of years […]
This new front garden and driveway design & build scheme is really taking shape. The driveway surface is being laid today after a 2 week delay of constant daily rain we have at last got some sunshine. Rain is forecast tomorrow so the team will have their hands full getting the entire 175m2 laid today. […]
The large sandstone terrace is now grouted and ready for sealing from the elements. The cast stone ballastrade arrives next week, our teams will be forming this during weeks 6 & 7 leaving the planting scheme and lighting system to be completed in week 8. The design team are hard at work on the planting […]
This new front garden and driveway project neighbours another Oakleigh Manor scheme completed in 2009. Here we have re-designed the front garden to form a new beautiful low maintenance scheme for our busy clients. The new design is based around a new porous Resin Bound Gravel driveway, Sandstone flagged link paths to the rear, new […]
The garden room is now in full swing as our clients family entertainment area. The Oak framed building is now host to a new Pool table, large games and cinema system, and if thats only if its raining, the new hot-tub receives all the attention on these hot days. The planting scheme is really getting […]
The lower end of the garden is now complete and we are working our way up, here we have cut and filled to form a new mini football pitch. The earthworks and soil preparation are in full flow and the first of the turf is being laid today. For once this year…we want rain!
The hardscape guys are hard at work carrying out Bench Installations for the public areas of the Environment Agency’s flaghip site, The Thames Barrier Complex. You can see Geoff here reinstating the block paved promenade on the South Embankment of the Thames.
A new 380m2 Natural Sandstone terrace is going to keep this team busy for the next 6 weeks, then 66m of cast stone balustrade will be fitted around the outer edge. This end of the terrace is being excavated today down to formation level, the sand based subsoil will be used to fill the other […]
This site team have been working on this decked terrace this week. The old lawn area below the deck was removed, the topsoil has been placed into a raised bed, part of which you can see just around the corner. The raised bed will form a new vegetable and herb garden, just outside our clients’ […]
