We bought our house in July 2016. It's a two bedroom Victorian house with a decent sized garden for a house in London. I began working on the garden in March this year and have developed a passion for working in the garden! So what needed doing? everything! From the back doors we had standard old decking which had partially rotted through. Then a step-up patio which looks like it was laid in the 90s - square concrete mock-stone slabs in a god-awful pink. The lawn we won't mention - that's a whole task in and of itself! At the rear of the garden someone had helpfully poured a very good concrete footing for a garage - roughly 15' wide by 18' deep. This was the only redeeming feature of the garden after it's size! This is where the garden saga started. My grand plan was to have a very large patio from the back door that incorporated and replaced the first patio - this would become a ...