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    Lawn in need of urgent first aid

    Last week we had to get a repair done on the septic tank soakaway which involved a digger in use in a fairly confined space. One part of lawn has had a small digger toing and froing over it now looks ripped, brown in patches and looks more compacted. The area over the new section of...
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    Installing a new sewage treatment plant and soakaway

    Our soakaway has failed and due to our plot not being that big we think our only option will be replace the current septic tank and soakaway with a sewage treatment plant and new soakaway (sooner or later). Has anyone had similar work done recently (our house is a 3 bed) or installed a similar...
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    Removing garden steps

    Our garden is quite fragmented and we want to remove some steps that split the front section in half. They lead to a gate which we also plan to remove and fill in the hedge. Something we hadn’t planned to do yet but we need to sort our soakaway (linked with septic tank) and since that’s going to...
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    Water pressure measured but what does it tell me?

    We moved about a year and a half ago and after initially having an issue with the internal stop tap (it was very stiff and took a while to fully open up). Even now however we can’t run a second tap without a dramatic drop in pressure. A friend suggested getting the pressure and flow checked at...
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    Repair or replace retaining wall

    Having not long moved our to do list is pretty long and we’re trying to prioritise. A section of the retaining wall behind our house has quite a big crack. The garden does bank up quite a bit behind it so there is a lot of pressure. As you can see from the photos there is drainage but unlike...
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