Need a helping hand with your driveway and patio? This HSS guide to the perfect drive helps you take the matter into your own hands.
The starting point is either clearing virgin land or more often removing an existing area of hard standing. The former is best achieved with good old-fashioned spadework, but breaking up old concrete or paving needs some hired power.
The ideal tools are electric breakers, which will make light work of reducing concrete slabs and similar surfaces to manageable chunks with the minimum of effort. Ask about the right model for your task and the cutting points, chisels and bolsters to cope with your materials.
Plan your project with care. Estimate and order all the materials you will require and check the availability of hired tools and equipment well in advance of the day you plan to start work. Make sure, too, you have any necessary safety equipment - work gloves, goggles and face masks, ear defenders and vibration damping gloves for noisy power tools, and RCD protection for mains power tools that will be used outdoor.
If you want to build a curve into a path or patio then, to see how it will look, plot out its shape using a length of hosepipe.
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