Tom’s Landscaping& Property Maintenance
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Recent work

26 jobs, all Tom’s own

Nothing here is stock photography or somebody else’s portfolio. Every picture is a jobTom Nyamunda carried out himself, in and around Winscombe.

Landscaping and garden construction

Whole gardens designed and built, from clearance and levelling through to planting, turfing and clipped hedging.

About landscaping
  • Formal clipped box parterre with planted beds running along a stone terrace wall
    Box parterre clipped and beds replanted
  • The same box parterre seen from the gravel path, hedges squared off and beds in flower
    Formal hedging, kept square
  • Stream bank cut back and cleared, with clipped box topiary balls either side of the water
    Stream bank cleared, topiary clipped
  • Cottage garden with a sandstone path, a cut lawn and deep planted borders against a fence
    Path, lawn and borders brought back together
  • Gravel garden edged in natural stone with a reclaimed staddle stone set at the centre
    Stone edged gravel garden
  • Mini digger stripping the ground of a rear garden, old timber stacked ready to go
    Digger work, stripping out for a rebuild
  • Timber swing frame with a thatched roof built onto a lawn, hammock slung underneath
    Swing frame built and thatched

Patios, paths and paving

Indian sandstone, slate and reclaimed stone laid on a proper base, with the falls set so water leaves the house.

About patios
  • Grey Indian sandstone patio laid in a random pattern inside a railway sleeper retaining wall
    Sandstone terrace inside a sleeper wall
  • Multi tone slate patio with new sleeper raised beds framing a seating area
    Slate paving with sleeper raised beds
  • Sandstone courtyard patio with climbing roses on a trellis and a timber garden store
    Courtyard paving, planted up
  • Sandstone front path with a stone edged border, leading to a wrought iron gate on the street
    Front path and stone edged border

Retaining walls and steps

Railway sleeper and dry stone retaining walls that hold a slope properly, with steps built into them.

About retaining walls
  • Dry stone retaining walls on two levels with timber steps and a stone slab bridge over a stream
    Dry stone terracing with steps and a slab bridge
  • Railway sleeper retaining wall and matching sleeper steps built into a sloping garden
    Sleeper wall and steps into the slope
  • Stone retaining terraces with gravel filled timber steps rising past a climbing rose
    Terraced stonework and gravel steps
  • Sleeper steps rising from a slate patio, retaining the bank either side
    Steps built to reach a new patio

House and property maintenance

The list of jobs a property builds up. Fencing, gates, roofs on outbuildings, sheds, repairs and the odd thing nobody else will take on.

About house maintenance
  • New timber roof structure and pantiles fitted to a brick outbuilding at dusk
    Outbuilding re roofed
  • New close board fence panels, concrete posts and a matching gate fitted along a side passage
    Close board fencing and a new gate
  • Garden shed built on a levelled slab base laid over a weed membrane
    Shed base laid and shed built

Plumbing and water supply

Water mains renewed, stopcocks replaced, outside taps fitted and rainwater harvesting set up.

About plumbing
  • New blue MDPE water main laid along the bottom of a trench beside a drainage stack
    New water main run to the house
  • New stopcock and isolation valve fitted where the blue water main enters the building
    Stopcock and isolation valve fitted
  • Water main running through a deep trench and foamed where it passes through the wall
    Main laid at depth and sealed through
  • Hallway floor relaid up to the doorway after the incoming water main was replaced
    Floor put back after the main went in
  • Rainwater harvesting tank plumbed into a downpipe beside an outbuilding
    Rainwater harvesting off the roof

Forestry and land clearance

Overgrown ground brought back. Scrub clearance, chipping, and orchards and woodland edges opened up again.

About forestry
  • Overgrown orchard cleared and chipped, with a bark path laid through the trees
    Orchard cleared and paths put back

Paddock and land maintenance

Grazing land, paddocks and large rural gardens kept on top of through the season.

About paddock maintenance
  • Large rural lawn cut clean with deep poppy and foxglove borders along the tree line
    Large plot kept on top of
  • Planted border cleared and maintained under an old stone boundary wall
    Boundary wall border, cleared and kept

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