North Somerset, BS25
Landscaping and property maintenance in Sandford
The next village along, barely a mile from the yard, on the A368 under the Mendip edge.
About 1.3 miles from Winscombe
The ground in Sandford
Sandford shares a parish and a postcode with Winscombe and sits about a mile north, on flatter ground where the Mendip slope runs out toward the moor. Flatter is easier to build on but harder to drain, so a patio here lives or dies on whether the falls were set before a single slab went down.
There is a wide spread of property, from older stone along the main road through to the newer estates and the retirement development. Newer plots tend to want the whole garden made, levelling, turf, borders and a hard surface to sit on. Older ones tend to want walls and paths put back.
Close enough that a callout is not really a callout. If something needs looking at, it is a five minute drive.
What Tom is most often asked for in Sandford
All seven services are available across the whole coverage area. These are ordered by what the ground and the buildings in Sandford tend to need.
- LandscapingWhole gardens designed and built, from clearance and levelling through to planting, turfing and clipped hedging.
- PatiosIndian sandstone, slate and reclaimed stone laid on a proper base, with the falls set so water leaves the house.
- 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.
- PlumbingWater mains renewed, stopcocks replaced, outside taps fitted and rainwater harvesting set up.
Recent work
The kind of thing this looks like
Photographs of Tom's own work. Not necessarily taken in Sandford, they are jobs from across North Somerset and the Mendip villages, chosen here because they show the work this page is about.
Path, lawn and borders brought back together 
Sandstone terrace inside a sleeper wall 
Shed base laid and shed built
Nearby
Tom covers these too, and the villages in between them.