Random stone walls terracing a sloped lawn
A back garden with a 2m slope from back to front, no use at all to young children. We terraced it with as few levels as we could manage, laid 280m2 of turf and paved the patios in Kandla grey. Four months, straight through a winter.
The slope ran 2m from the back of the garden down to the front, which left nowhere flat for young children to play. The design was ours, and it used minimal terracing.
What we built
We removed 130 tons of spoil, used around 54m2 of random stone, brought in 30 tonnes of river sand and laid 280m2 of turf. The patios went down in Kandla grey pavers.
The weather
It was a four-month build over the winter, and the rain barely let up. The site became a messy bog in no time. We worked through it.
Before
The garden before work: a lawn sloping two metres from the back to the front, with old stone steps
After
The stone retaining wall running the length of the new lawn, with paving along the foot of it
AfterThe new turf laid across the levelled terrace, with fencing along the boundary above it
AfterThe Kandla grey patio at the lower level, framed by random stone retaining walls
A mini digger working across the stripped slope with spoil banked up behind it
Spoil heaped across the garden with a dumper standing by during the winter build
The stone retaining walls built and the ground still bare, part-way through the build
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