North Somerset, BS29
Landscaping and property maintenance in Banwell
Village under Banwell Hill, a mile and a half west, where the ground tips hard in places.
About 1.6 miles from Winscombe
The ground in Banwell
Banwell is built around and up the side of Banwell Hill, and the older lanes climb steeply enough that plenty of gardens are terraced whether the owner planned it or not. Terracing that was done badly, or done a long time ago, is the common job. A retaining wall that has started to lean is telling you the drainage behind it stopped working.
The village has a lot of older stone, and stone walls fail from the top down when the coping goes. Getting water off the wall is most of the repair. The rest is matching the stone so the patch does not shout.
Below the hill the ground flattens toward the moor and the North Somerset Levels, so the same village can want a retaining wall on one street and a drainage answer on the next.
What Tom is most often asked for in Banwell
All seven services are available across the whole coverage area. These are ordered by what the ground and the buildings in Banwell tend to need.
- Retaining wallsRailway sleeper and dry stone retaining walls that hold a slope properly, with steps built into them.
- LandscapingWhole gardens designed and built, from clearance and levelling through to planting, turfing and clipped hedging.
- House maintenanceThe list of jobs a property builds up. Fencing, gates, roofs on outbuildings, sheds, repairs and the odd thing nobody else will take on.
- PatiosIndian sandstone, slate and reclaimed stone laid on a proper base, with the falls set so water leaves the house.
Recent work
The kind of thing this looks like
Photographs of Tom's own work. Not necessarily taken in Banwell, they are jobs from across North Somerset and the Mendip villages, chosen here because they show the work this page is about.
Terraced stonework and gravel steps 
Sleeper wall and steps into the slope 
Stone edged gravel garden
Nearby
Tom covers these too, and the villages in between them.