SteveO wrote:
:: I am a complete novice gardener and have recently had a patio
:: laid. Our garden is on a hill and at the moment is about 8 inches
:: lower than the patio increasing to 15 inches at the farthest point
:: form the patio
:: The lawn area is only about 25 foot deep. I want to make it level
:: with the patio. Presumably the gap is too high to fill with just
:: top soil. Should I lay something on the existing grass before
:: adding new topsoil?
:: If so what?

How is the added soil/whatever going to stay in place? - the lie of the land
is now sloping away from your patio, what will retain the extra 15 inches at
the far end and the sides?
When you say 25ft deep, do you mean 25ft long? - if so, what is the
width?....I just did a quick calculation and estimated it to be approx 18ft
wide : 25 X 18 = 450sq ft, but the average depth is going to be a foot, so
it requires 450 cu ft, this equates to well over 12 tonnes, whichever
material you choose to fill in with....obviously if it's wider than 18ft,
you can recalculate.


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