North Somerset, BS49
Landscaping and property maintenance in Congresbury
Four miles north on the River Yeo, where the ground is flat and the water is close.
About 4 miles from Winscombe
The ground in Congresbury
Congresbury is built along the Yeo on low, flat ground at the edge of the North Somerset Levels. Flat is not the same as easy. A high water table and a river in the parish means drainage is the first design decision in almost any garden here, not an afterthought once the slabs are down.
That shapes the work. Raised beds instead of sunken ones. Sub bases built up rather than dug in. Falls run deliberately, and somewhere real for the water to go. Get that right and a patio lasts. Get it wrong and it lifts in the second winter.
The village has a good spread of older stone along the main road and newer housing behind it, so the jobs run the full range from repointing an old wall to building a garden from a bare developer plot.
What Tom is most often asked for in Congresbury
All seven services are available across the whole coverage area. These are ordered by what the ground and the buildings in Congresbury tend to need.
- PatiosIndian sandstone, slate and reclaimed stone laid on a proper base, with the falls set so water leaves the house.
- LandscapingWhole gardens designed and built, from clearance and levelling through to planting, turfing and clipped hedging.
- PlumbingWater mains renewed, stopcocks replaced, outside taps fitted and rainwater harvesting set up.
- 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.
Recent work
The kind of thing this looks like
Photographs of Tom's own work. Not necessarily taken in Congresbury, they are jobs from across North Somerset and the Mendip villages, chosen here because they show the work this page is about.
Slate paving with sleeper raised beds 
Rainwater harvesting off the roof 
Path, lawn and borders brought back together
Nearby
Tom covers these too, and the villages in between them.