Ben and Katie's garden had been left to grow wild for years, and the old boundary fence was on its way out. We started by taking that fence down completely, then brought a micro digger in to dig out the entire garden, clearing somewhere in the region of 8 to 10 tonnes of overgrown ground and spoil to get back down to a workable base.

With the garden cleared, we set new posts along the boundary line, laid a membrane across the site and stoned it up ready for the next stage. From there we built out roughly 40m² of flagging, laying the patio and a path around what would become the turfed lawn, and finished the inside edge of the lawn with a charcoal block border for a clean, defined line between the paving and the grass.

We brought in 3 tonnes of topsoil and compacted it before giving the whole site a proper clean and laying the turf. Once that was down we cleaned up again and pointed the flags with a dark grey jointing compound to lock everything in and finish the paving properly. The final stage was completing the fence and hanging the gate, followed by one last clean before dressing the whole garden in decorative gravel (Black Ice) to tie it all together.

From strip-out to finished garden, the whole project ran start to finish in five days, 11 to 15 July 2026.