Recent content by mphowells

Are you saying if I dig down it might water log?

ellal, thanks for that, after your comments and standing in my back garden I think maybe going with building the garden up on the left and slightly skimming of the 'hiils' on the right is the way forward. It truely is a huge amount of work digging down that far to match the left! hopefully I...

Really, how much more?? Starting to wonder if i'll have to build it up and then build a hire fence for privacy, which sucks but maybe it's safer that digging down.

Maybe not cheese, but def rolls a ball - the photo doesn't reflect it that well to be honest. I was going to get a skip for the soil if option 2 is chosen. Yes I intend on building a retaining wall with sleepers whether I go option 1 or 2. If option 1 then the wall will be on the left of...

Here is a photo, hopefully it will help explain what I am talking about. Ideally I would like to dig down to retain privacy with the fence on the left. The right hand side fence is dead anyway so it needs replacing.

The wife says level it I have to level it :roll:

Hi I live on a slope and after my two patio slab depth patio area my garden slopes down from the right to the left quite considerably. It means there is not much garden for the children to play in. I therefore want to level it out. Question is, do I: 1 - build up the left to bring the...