Patio Installers and Patio Repointing in Bournemouth

A new patio is priced after we have stood on the ground it's going on, not before. What moves the figure is size, what is already there, and what the ground underneath is doing. A patio going down on bare soil is a different job from one where old slabs have to come up and go in a skip first, and a patio that wants a step or a low retaining wall along one edge is a different job again. We work all of that out on the visit and put a figure in writing, built from the time the job will actually take, the materials it needs, and how easy or difficult access to your garden is.

Patio repointing is the other route in, and it is usually the cheaper of the two where the base underneath is still sound. That is for a patio where the slabs are still sitting properly and the trouble is the mortar between them: joints that have blown, crumbled away or filled up with moss and weeds. The old pointing is raked out and the patio is pointed again, and the price again comes from what the visit tells us, not from a figure picked in advance. Where the slabs are rocking, sunk or cracked across, repointing is putting a fresh face on a problem that lives under the slabs, and we would rather tell you that honestly than take the work anyway.

Two things come up often enough in Dorset gardens to be worth saying here. The first is levels. Plenty of gardens around Bournemouth, Poole and up towards Wimborne fall away from the house, so a flat patio wants a step or a low brick wall holding one side of it. That is bricklaying rather than slab laying, and it is the side of the job we come from rather than one we subcontract out. The second is frost. Water gets into a soft joint, freezes, and opens it a little wider every winter, which is why a patio that looked tired last autumn can look noticeably worse by March.

If you have been searching for patio installers, patio builders or patio laying near me, what you are really trying to settle is who will actually turn up, what the job involves, and whether it will still look right in a few years. We cannot prove the first one on a web page, so here is what happens instead. Message us on a Monday and we will usually have looked at the job by the end of that week, with a written quotation to you by the weekend. Quick response and a quick quote are two of the things our customers write about in their reviews without being asked to.

We are not the cheapest bricklayers in Dorset and we will not pretend to be. Every quotation is worked out from what your patio actually needs rather than from a figure that sounds competitive on a website, and you have it in writing before anything is ordered. Dane Gardner, who we repointed a patio and rebuilt a set of steps for, put it plainly in his review: "Jack is a real craftsman who repaired my steps and repointed my patio to a very high standard. From the start he was good at communicating, replying to messages quickly and providing a prompt quote." That is the standard every patio job is held to.