23/09/2025
🔥 From Collapsing to Classy – Gedling Garden Transformation! 🔥
This one was a proper challenge – but we love those 💪.
When our customer in Gedling got in touch, their old wall was cracked, leaning and ready to give way (swipe to see the “before” 😬). What they wanted was a safe, solid retaining wall with a smart porcelain patio that would look amazing for years to come to there own design and colour scheme. (Customer to add rockery and planting to the slopes ground)
The catch? 🚫
👉 Terrible access – no diggers, no dumpers, no machines.
👉 Every single bucket of muck, rubble, concrete, bricks and paving had to be carried by hand, in and out through the right access and many steps.
💡 Customer’s chosen design:
🧱 Eastwood Buff Bricks for a clean, timeless wall finish
🪜 Precast Bathstone Copings & Step Treads for a crisp, premium look
🟫 Bradstone Vala Sand Porcelain Paving for a sleek, modern patio with zero maintenance worries
🔒 The real strength is what you can’t see:
Behind that neat brickwork sits a 215mm hollow concrete block wall – each block filled with concrete and reinforced with steel rebar. That means this wall isn’t just for show – it’s an engineered retaining wall built to take serious pressure for decades.
We didn’t stop there…
✔️ Deep reinforced foundations with tied steel
✔️ Proper drainage: clean stone backfill, membrane, and weep vents to keep pressure off the wall
✔️ Hand-laid brickwork tied back to the blockwork
✔️ Porcelain patio laid with precise falls into a sleek linear drain, so rainwater runs off exactly where it should
✨ The Result:
A garden that’s safer, stronger and stunningly finished. A space the customer can enjoy all year round, knowing it’s built properly from the ground up.
📍 Project Location: Gedling, Nottingham
👷♂️ Installed by: RMS Building & Landscaping Ltd
📞 Call us: 01773 434412
🌐 Visit: www.rmsbuild.co.uk
✉️ Email: [email protected]
If you want a garden that looks incredible and is built to last – even with tough access – get in touch today. We don’t cut corners, we build them 🧱😉