About Teesside Patios
Teesside homeowners get competitive, written quotes for patios, paths, steps and garden walls here, free and in writing. Every quote is pushed towards the same format, with the dig, the sub-base, the bedding method and the drainage stated, because that is the only way two prices can honestly be compared.
A patio is mostly the part you cannot see. Two quotes can both say "25 square metres of sandstone, £2,200" and describe entirely different jobs: one with a 150mm dig, a compacted stone base and every slab on a full wet bed, the other with the turf skimmed off and the slabs sat on five dabs of mortar. Both look identical the week they are finished. Three winters later they do not. This site exists to get every quote written in the first format, so the choice you make is an informed one.
How it works
Tell us about the garden: roughly how big the area is, the style you have in mind, and your postcode. The enquiry goes through our quote partner Bark.com to rated local patio professionals covering your area, who measure the job properly and come back with written figures. Natural stone, porcelain, concrete slabs, repairs, paths, steps and garden walls all follow the same standard.
The standards we hold quotes to
- A written price with the build-up: excavation depth, sub-base depth, bedding method and jointing product, all stated rather than assumed.
- Falls and drainage designed: roughly one in eighty away from the house, with the water given somewhere to go on ground that does not drain freely.
- The damp-proof course respected: the finished level kept 150mm clear, or a drainage channel specified where the levels will not allow it.
- Waste dealt with: spoil and the old surface removed and disposed of, priced in rather than left behind the shed.
- Edges and detail finished: haunched restraint, clean cuts at wall lines, and recessed trays where covers land in the paving.
- Insurance you can read: public liability cover appropriate for groundwork, evidenced by certificate.
Who runs it
The site is run by 360 Media Works Ltd, a Teesside company based at Varsity House on the Preston Farm estate in Stockton-on-Tees. The guides here are written to be worth reading whether or not you ever ask for a quote, which is why they include the figures, the trade-offs and the questions a sales page would leave out.