Level issue on patio

[darrenh]

Hi all

I have a slight problem.

I’ve dug out an area for a patio ready for the subbase – the final level of the paving stone will have me level for the majority of the lawn area (including a 1:80 slope down to lawn). However, over to the left, the area of lawn is quite a lot higher – meaning the paving level would sit 10cm below the lawn level!

Obviously one option is to dig out the lawn and re-turf but I was wondering if people had other ideas?

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• darrenh
• 12 Mar 2009
• 1

I could create a secondary level but really didn’t want this (as the patio is for little ones to ride bikes round etc) – I could maybe make a small one but am then worried about this becoming overly wet (as idea is currently for rain to run into lawn area).

Thanks in advance

Darren

 

[Thermo]

if its the green triangle on the drawing, then just build a small retaining wall along the edge. If its not high, then a single skin of brickwork, or a couple of sleepers will do the trick