North Somerset, BS22, BS23 and BS24
Landscaping and property maintenance in Weston-super-Mare
Six and a half miles west on the coast, the biggest town in range and a salt air problem.
About 7 miles from Winscombe
The ground in Weston-super-Mare
Weston is on the Bristol Channel and everything outdoors here is weathering faster than it would five miles inland. Salt in the wind eats fixings, finishes and softwood. Timber that was fine in Winscombe is a two year job on a Weston seafront garden unless it is specified for it.
The town covers three postcode areas and several eras at once, Victorian terraces near the front, interwar semis behind them, and large modern estates out at Worle and St Georges. Terrace gardens are narrow, walled and reached through the house, which decides the method before it decides the design. Estate gardens are open and want the whole thing made.
Access is the recurring constraint. Where a barrow cannot get round the side, everything comes through the house or over a wall, and an honest quote says so up front rather than discovering it on day one.
What Tom is most often asked for in Weston-super-Mare
All seven services are available across the whole coverage area. These are ordered by what the ground and the buildings in Weston-super-Mare tend to need.
- 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.
- LandscapingWhole gardens designed and built, from clearance and levelling through to planting, turfing and clipped hedging.
- Retaining wallsRailway sleeper and dry stone retaining walls that hold a slope properly, with steps built into them.
Recent work
The kind of thing this looks like
Photographs of Tom's own work. Not necessarily taken in Weston-super-Mare, they are jobs from across North Somerset and the Mendip villages, chosen here because they show the work this page is about.
Courtyard paving, planted up 
Outbuilding re roofed 
Front path and stone edged border
Nearby
Tom covers these too, and the villages in between them.