Quality Outdoor Rooms

08/09/2026

Started with a proper dig-out — stripped back to sub-base level and corrected the falls.

The old steps were a mess: every riser a different height, treads cracked and pitching different ways, so rather than patch them we took them out completely, poured a new reinforced concrete core with rebar, and capped it with thick sandstone treads.

Retaining wall either side was solid, so that stayed untouched — just the steps got the full rebuild. Chingford job.

Sandstone from London Stone, laid random pattern, brush-jointed. Both inspection chambers got recessed covers dropped in and filled with matching stone — so instead of two grey plastic squares sat in the middle of your new patio, they just disappear into the paving.

22/07/2026

Full walk-through of the Leyton garden office - cedar clad, aluminium bifolds, EPDM roof, done and ready to work from. Have a watch.

02/05/2026

Started with a Samsung heat pump sitting exposed in the corner of the garden — functional but an eyesore.

Built a slatted pressure-treated timber screen around it with a sedum roof on top. The slats are spaced deliberately to keep airflow unrestricted to the unit — it's not just a box, it has to breathe.

End result is something that looks like it was always meant to be there.

17/04/2026

I could write another post about how hard this job was. The tonnes of hardcore. The weeks on site. Working through the weather. Myself and Oskar grafting start to finish while the farm stayed open around us.

And we still loved every minute of it.

But on the last straight - Good Friday morning, 90% done - we opened the main patio to the public. And that's when I noticed we'd done something else this time.

Kids running safely between tables. Café staff able to move freely and serve properly. Families settling in, having coffee, enjoying the space. A community that needed somewhere better to gather - and now they had it.

130m² of Raj Green sandstone. A new timber pergola. A roof overhead for all seasons. Six weeks of work that will last decades.

20 years on the tools. My voice cracked. Tear in the eye. Something you don't often get on a job.

Worth every bag of hardcore.

29/03/2026

Stepney City Farm — new outdoor dining area taking shape in classic British weather. We've laid a large run of Indian sandstone paving and the pergola structure is up. Still more paving to come next week, but you can already see how much better this space is going to work for visitors. A community spot like this deserves something solid underfoot.

06/03/2026