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Yes its a railway, I appreciate your opinion, but I am spending a lot of time landscaping my entire garden, its a big project and will look amazing when finished, I won't be able to enjoy it with the unsightly railway fence on show.

Thanks for advice guys, helped a lot. Completely understand about the posts close to the tree eventually moving, but I need to cover it, there's two big gaps either side of the tree that need to be blocked, plus it doesn't look very nice. Like the idea of using a angled bit of timber at post...

I've got a stone driveway with a type 1 sub base, as long as its well compacted it should never come lose and mix with the top layer

Hi, I need help with a fence across the back of garden which needs to end with an angle to a gate. Post 1 - Concrete already in place, 2-way slot. Can I fix a panel onto from the side some how or am I going to have to replace with a 3-way slot or add a end slot post? Post 4 - Needs to have a...

OK, before I get some nasty comments, I'm not a landscaper, I work in IT, I wish I could afford to pay a professional but I can't. Patio is far from perfect, but it's OK, the biggest area I'm not happy about is this huge joint line I messed up, it's really noticeable. Do you think it's worth...

Yep, house has suspended floor, extension concrete floor with 4 (I think from memory) air brick channels essentially extended the original air brick/air flow.

Impossible to move air bricks, its an extension with concrete floor, these air bricks have already been extended from original house boundary

Hi, I need to convert my loft hatch to a flip down and ladder as its currently the old school push up with a step ladders. I've seen kits online with hinges and locking mechanism. Question is how to I make the current hatch fit. I've been advised by some that I can keep the hatch at its...

Hi, I'm going to build small step on my patio, width of the red lines in photo. This however ill be blocking 1 and a half air bricks, highlighted in green. I plan to use an air brick channel and extend the one that is being blocked fully to the front of the step, either using a plastic air...

Yeah I think I've settled on having a stone/gravel gap on both sides of the patio now, equal size. My original ideal was to only have this on the neighbors side for obvious reasons and then go tight to the fence on my side gambling I'll never have to replace post or gravel board. This poses...

Hi @Diver Fred Thanks, fence posts were already here, I added the gravel boards. I received advice to essentially use gravel boards as a retaining wall.

Hi, About to start laying my patio, but haven't decided what to do on my side of the fence. Do I go right up against the concrete fence boards? and even scribe (cut out) around the fence posts? As you can see from photo, by time I've got mortar bed the slab will almost slot into the recess...

This would work, but I would still need to fix the concrete gravel board to something

This looks great, assuming a concrete gravel board will also slot into this and provide a good enough fixing.

Yep going to have to make a panel by cutting one down, just plan to cover the gap not overlap.

Hi there, I have this very small section between the newly built extension and first fence post. It's my side of the fence so I plan to replace all panels, while putting concrete boards in. I don't think I can easily put a concrete post in against the house due to foundations getting in the...

Sorry I didn't mean to fence, but the fence posts and gravel boards. Say I go with your idea and have a mortar bed and slabs butted up to gravel boards, IF my neighbor ever decided they wanted to remove/replace the gravel boards or fence posts my patio would be in trouble as it would lose its...

Hi Noseall, your advise to slab against gravel boards, I guess would work fine on my side of the fence, however couldn't I run into issues on the other neighbors side if they ever wanted to replace their fence?

Thanks 23vc I know you originally advised this, but I really wanted to go ahead with my desired outcome of having a high enough patio level where a step is not needed as in my opinion it looks perfect.

Thanks for the replies and help noseall, really appreciate it. Your right, a step looks OK. I think my previous image was completely wrong as well. I believe DPC is the red line in this image, so If I was following advice my finish patio would be around the blue line. If I was to follow...