Help with Patio

stuckonbenefits_2

Hi everyone,

I've bought my first property and my garden was in a bit of a state, so I a few weeks ago I called a landscaper, whom has cleared majority of garden and it's almost ready to have patio installed.

However, I didn't foresee some issues, such as a huge tree stump appearing under the ground and also some damage caused to the neighbour's wall due to the digger digging too far in.

I've fallen out with the landscaper over the neighbour's wall as he didn't feel he was responsible, hence he didn't want to fix it. Anyway to cut a long story short, I paid some money and he repaired it.

He's walked off and because I'm struggling to pay for another landscaper, I'm thinking to do the patio paving myself. My garden is around 22 metres by 11 metres and is sloping towards the house. The L-Shaped paving will be at the opposite end of the garden. The opposite end is around 1ft higher than the ground against our house.




Please can you help me with the following:

• I want to create an L-Shape type of paving, however as said earlier, our garden is sloping down. As you can see from the diagram, it is also sloping towards out garage. How do I lay/slope the paving to avoid the garden becoming flooded with rain water? (A diagram would be much appreciated).
  
  
• I was originally thinking of Indian Sandstone paving, but I've read on a few websites/forums that it looks good at first, but afterwards it not only looks tacky, but also is very easy to damage. Can you recommend any paving/flags?

Thanks again.

System

The patio slabs will need a gradual slope in order for rain water to run off

Calculating the Patio Fall
It's now time to calculate the fall, which will encourage water away from the house, using the industry standard ratio of 1:80. This means that for every 80 units of distance along the patio, the level must drop by one unit. So if your patio is a rectangle 6 metres wide and runs 4 metres from the house, it will have to drop by 4m divided by 80, which is 5cm


Any patio slab will start to look grubby after a while, the more pits and grooves it has the more dirt will get trapped

stuckonbenefits_2

Thanks A&L. I'm just thinking on the basis of costs, if expensive indian sandstone is going to cost a lot of money, would I just be better off going for a different stone which will do just a good as job and look nice too. Can you recommend a few names/types?

Regarding the slope issue. My apologies, but maybe I didn't explain clearly. My question was related to the diagram in my OP (See new image with measurements below)....The "NEW PATIO" is L-Shaped and as you can see runs towards the garage:



Do I need to slope it somehow away from the garage or is it okay to slope towards it? Can you show me how you would do this?

stuckonbenefits_2

Sorry guys, but BUMP! :beer:

Wookey

As far as what it looks like and costs that is up to you alone, no one can advise you on what you like the look of or on what you can afford.

As far as drainage is concerned you will need to make sure that you adequately deal with the run off from an area that size, a couple of storm drain gully's piped into your rainwater drain could well be needed and the patio laid in such a way that rainwater is fed towards them, failure to sort out the drainage could lead to water running into your neighbours garage causing flooding and potential legal problems and result in a lot of it having to be ripped up to fix it.

stuckonbenefits_2

Your advice is really helpful, thank you.

Since you mentioned possible risks of neighbour's garage, I'm now thinking of changing the design of the patio and making it smaller because it would allow for me to have more larger area for grass and shouldn't cause any problems with flooding.