North Somerset, BS49
Landscaping and property maintenance in Yatton
Five miles north on the Levels, rhyne country, flat ground and a lot of newer housing.
About 5 miles from Winscombe
The ground in Yatton
Yatton sits out on the North Somerset Levels, ground that is only farmable because it is drained, cut through with rhynes and ditches that have to keep working. Anything built on it has to respect that. Block a drainage line at the bottom of a garden and the problem does not stay in your garden.
The village has grown a great deal, so a large share of the housing is modern, and modern estate gardens arrive as a rectangle of turf and a panel fence. That is the common brief here: turn a blank plot into something with a patio, a shape, planting and a boundary that will still be standing in ten years.
Wind matters on open Levels ground more than people expect. Fencing takes a beating, and close board set in properly outlives panels by years.
What Tom is most often asked for in Yatton
All seven services are available across the whole coverage area. These are ordered by what the ground and the buildings in Yatton 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 Yatton, they are jobs from across North Somerset and the Mendip villages, chosen here because they show the work this page is about.
Stone edged gravel garden 
Close board fencing and a new gate 
Front path and stone edged border
Nearby
Tom covers these too, and the villages in between them.