Garden tidy extraordinaire.

Heather and Chris are a lovely young couple with four young children. They

just don't have the time to look after their back garden. Chris is a bus driver who works long hours and Heather has her hands full with the four wee ones.

As you can see it's fell by the wayside and they've asked me to give it a makeover on a very tight budget.

This area has bark chips but it's turned to soup so has to go.

This is a pet project for me because the transformation is going to be spectacular.

I just scooped everything up, the shed, the wendy house, the old kitchen, the rubbish and the rubble.

Watch this space folks, more pics to come.

Update**

Heather wanted a raised bed to grow some veg so we settled on this type. It's a metre wide and five metres long. Five pressure treated posts set in with Postcrete and three course of decking boards, also pressure treated so should be good for many years to come.

I have to dig out these two sections of earth. The smaller one will be getting 8 slabs, the bigger one bark chips because the trampoline is going to be there, and kids bounce better on bark chips. I have to dig out about 5-6" of soil so ideal for filling up the raised bed.

The slabs are all in place, borders dug out, trampoline area dug out. All I have to do is lay some weed control and a bed of bark chips, and a few hours painting. The jobs a guid ane!!

The earth from the borders etc all went into the raised bed but Chris and Heather are going to do that job themselves.

Playbark in place, just some painting and a gate to make and its finished.

Well chuffed with this job ;-)

 

 

I pressure washed and scraped the buff coloured panels, bargeboard and soffit, and gave them a couple of coats of white gloss.

And even though I say it myself, it does look rather nice.

A new rear gate, and the jobs a guid ane....