Making a NEW GARDEN at our new-build home!
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- By popular demand here's a little video about how I made the garden at our new build. I'm no gardener but I do enjoy a spot of amateur gardening. Let me know what you think of this project!
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Thank you!! 👍🛠🤘
I’ve been a gardener for 12 years and I’m still learning, but what you achieved here as an ‘amateur’ is fantastic. Great video 👍
Really excellent job, carefully planned and methodically executed. I’m a gardener and I don’t feel inclined to criticise anything you’ve done, it’s your garden and you worked so hard to create a sanctuary for your family. Everyone has their own style and as long as you are happy that’s what counts. Thanks for the vid, really enjoyed it.
A friend of mine bought a new-build house in East Grinstead. The soil was very heavy clay. Being Irish he planted potatoes for the first and second year, which broke up the soil beautifully and enabled him to have a wonderful garden!
I did that with mine as I'm in norn iron, and my grass later was green for years due to the spuds
Or u can just throw hay down on the soil and after a year it'll mulch and grass will grow
That's a fantastic tip Charles! I might have to look in to that if we ever get moved... 👍😂
I just can't get enough of your content. I'm balls deep in a 70s renovation project at the moment. Ive just dug out a concrete fish pond about 35sqm and turfed it. Currently got no walls, no ceilings, only a few sockets work, no lights, no heating, no hot water... But I have got some shiny new windows and cladding lmao loving every minute
@@1bloke512 mines not crap mate, it was a self build, done to a pretty high spec at the time. just tore everything down to insulate it properly and while it's in this state decided to do the lot, new central heating, new electrics and 100mm celotex in the flat roofs and dormer areas, just made sense since we are planning on staying here, future proofing 🤗
Cheers bud! Sounds like a fun project! I've seen some pretty amazing 70's houses once they're all renovated. Good luck with it! 👍👊
lovely job that mate, i work in gardens all day everyday and you should be very proud of that
Thank you - did the job! 👍😀
the video I was waiting for.... THANK YOU!
No worries - I have lots of old photos! 😂👍
Hi, you were lucky, I live in Teesside about 25 miles from you so I call that yellow stuff dolomite as well, as for my garden it was a mix of brick rubble and clay where you needed a jackhammer to get more than an inch down into the “garden” love what you did to your garden
Dolomite carbonate rock which is typical for the Norfork region, so in your neck of the wood you mostly have this kind of rock as basement because in Mesozoic times it was an ocean, and Calcium carbonate is usually deposited in oceans. You know that you have a lot of Calcium carbonate and high clay content because you had the cement floor after a few months drying out the floor (Cement is calcium Carbonate). Clay material is used to create a non-permeable layer for contamination mitigations.
Pyracantha and children don’t mix. It’s not called firethorn without good reason. I have it growing against a boundary fence. Partly because it’s thorns, make it an unattractive handhold for any unwanted person who decides to climb in.
At least your dolomite looks clean! 🙃
Our house was one of a small development of 4 built in the '80s, apparently on a marsh. The whole garden is built up on a bed of rubble and we are still picking broken glass out of it. My guess is that when demolishing the previous house they chucked all the windows out, saving a bit of time.
Thanks so much for this video. I never had the space to grow a real garden, but we have just completed a new build and I am completely lost. No idea how to start planning the landscaping part. Your video gave me great ideas! Just what I needed to get going!
I've a mate who used sleepers but not in the usual way ie lengthways. He cut across the sleeper 1st one 4 inches 2nd one 4and half inches and so on up to 8 inches and then back down again and placed them vertical in a curved edge so it was an 8 inch thick edging but undulating along the path looks fantastic if doing it don't forget to treat the cut ends before placing in the soil. Nice vid Andy looked like all the hard graft paid off, getting close to video #300 on this channel hopefully its a reveal of your new gaff or workshop,keep her lit my friend.
Cheers Alan! I wish I could say we'll have the new gaff in time for #300 but looking increasingly unlikely. This lockdown has scuppered the entire year for me. 😭👍 It's killing me! 😂
Our builder does it as standard in Canada. The entire garden died in the first two years so we dug it up to resod it. There was barely an inch of actual soil under most of it.
Great stuff mate. Also can confirm, I watch whenever I have time to watch, schedules have never affected my viewing (just my circumstances obviously)
Fabulous job looks absolutely marvellous
It's Dolomitic - one of the softer grades of limestone which isn't a bad thing for sub-base which relies on compaction to give it its' strength.
Interesting! 👍👊
Dolomite was a Triumph car, best in Sprint version. Failing that a mountain range in Italy. That’s daaawn saath 😀. Just goes to shore that every day is school day😎. Another great video.
Ha ha cheers John! 👍👊
Nice looking garden. I would have avoided those spiky, spiny plants, though. Here in the US a popular, relatively economic, do-it-yourself alternative to the log roll is concrete paving blocks. Pavestone is one of the brands. They make some of them in an interlocking configuration intended for low retaining walls and they come in a variety of colors. They stack dry, no mortar required. Rot, of course, is not an issue.
Interesting - will look out for those! 👍👊
You must be so proud of yourself. We lost our cordilne due to frost.
Awesome work..very professional..thanks for that
At least your back garden just had stones and mud. My cousin ripped up his and found over 300 plastic spoons from the previous owners/builders. That’s a lot of cups of tea. Great video!
Great work mate, I've been a gardener since I left school. The one thing I would say is if anybody is watching and thinking about using sharp sand to add to soil for turfing, be very careful as some sharp sand contains lime which might burn your lawn off. Really impressed by the work though, looks great mate!
u would be amazed what liquid soap will do to soil (breaks it down).
Really looks good!
The effort was worth it methinks. 👍🏽🥳 Well done x
Looks great but where's the bouncy castle?
I think the garden looks really nice, 2 years ago I bought 50 cheap rooted cuttings from Morrisons and eBay, around £2-3 each. escallonia, pyracantha, forsythia, potentilla, juniper, buxus, dawn redwood, taxus, Scots pine, larch and planted them down my allotment to thicken the trunks for bonsai use. They've taken off big time, you'd have to spend £20 each plus to get a plant of that size at a garden centre
Indeed - and the rest! You can easily spend £100 on even small-ish trees. We got a bit of a bargain with these plants as the nursery was closing down. I think what I bought here would have been about £400 from a normal garden centre. 👍
There’s one thing I’d add to this. I would have built a pergola over the seating area, as you are overlooked by the buildings behind. Climbing plants over a pergola would soon give you privacy. We did it in our new build garden, although we’re not overlooked. We built a sunken seating area with stone filled gabions, fire pit in the middle and pergola over the top and planters in the corners.
The planning conditions here require no mud to be carried onto the road by delivery lorries. You can install wheel washing facilities but getting water onto the sire and getting rid of the waste water is problematic, prior to any drainage going in. The solution? Scrape off topsoil and spread scalpings/ ballast and across the plot. If you're lucky the builder won't have sold off the topsoil, but where do all those scalpings go? Under drives, paths and parking but also probably left under your grass. Helps with drainage, haha. Try sticking a fork in, it'll come out ready for the tip! Interesting video, as ever.
A good piece of work but you might have been advised to build low stock brick or Marshell concrete bricks for walling, They resist damp better than wood and are also handy to sit on or rest your cup on.
It never advisable to grow pyracantha or Laural in gardens unless you are desperate for a quick cover, Laural tends to poison the soil and Pyracantha quickly outgrows your garden,I refuse to prune them any more! I would have done some reading up on the best plants, In the end, a garden is whatever pleases yourselves and suits your needs. I have constructed hundreds of them over the years when a heavy landscaper.
I made the same mistake with log roll once, I think mine rotted within about 3 years. Never again!
Looks canny smart that Andy.
I had a rest from TH-cam for a while do catching up with you channel. I am surprised you moved to a new house as you done a video about shoddy workmanship when buying new. Understandable
We'll be copying your design as our back garden is the same shape 👍🏼😉🇬🇧
My first new-build required work too, but the neighbour hired someone who just chucked all the rocks over the fence into mine - this is before anyone had moved in. My guy just had to get on with it. I was was angry though.
Fantastic! 👍🙄😂
Nice work. Back breaking but very rewarding
Cheers David - yes, very rewarding - especially once the plants mature a bit. 👍😀
New series from Andy Mac - Around the nation in 80 houses!
Very nice...well done made👌
How many bedrooms did thst house have? It looks like quite a large house
Bloody loved it! 👍🏾
Thank you! 👍👊
Another great video! Look forward to the next one.
100 mils of soil.... braggart ! I've got between 3 and 5 mm, then a metre of clay, then hardpan. Hardpan is solid rock more or less.
That said after 5 years this place has gone from moonscape to amazing. Sure is nice seeing what you can do though with all that hard work.
Hoping to put in some fruit trees and berry bushes this year now that the ridiculous amount of trees have been cleared out.
ps: we call the sub base urban badin over here
Ha it's just endless heavy clay soil here. Mostly old farmland. Nice once you get it going again but can take a few years. That sounds like fun on your side! Got a tractor? 👍😉
@@GosforthHandyman No tractor, just my old worn out back :^)
Dolomite as a sub base is a very Northeastern product Possibly because other parts of the country don't have it in abundance or at all
Yeah, weird - only heard it called that up here. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman I recently moved up here from Wiltshire to plawsworth nr chester-le-street and have views over Houghton-le-Spring and beyond where i can see the dolomite mine thats next to the golf course. Before moving here i like many others just thought the dolomite was a car 🚗 🙃
Lovely job, I wish I had your imagination for what can be achieved. Do you have any suggestions for better edging than the log rolls? I want something that would last as I need to do some edging in the next year myself but I won't be selling anytime soon so want to do the job once and properly so I don't have to redo it in 5-10 years. Also would you think about fitting threshold drains (I think that is what they are called, a gully type drain with plastic or metal grid on top) along the garage wall to keep that area dry and along the house before the gravel if you were doing it again now?
Another great video, very useful. I like that the garden is quite structural but also soft.
I've never understood the appeal of log wire edging it's not to my taste.
Cheers! Yeah, honestly don't know why I bothered with the logroll - wasn't really needed. Lesson learned! 😂
My garden slopes up 700mm from the patio for about 7m and unsurprisingly water pools at the bottom by the paving slabs, really nasty. In spring I’m intending to build a sleeper retaining wall and levelling off the lawn with steps up. Cracking job with that one though
Good plan - perhaps a field drain at the back of the slope too. Cheers Lucas! 👍
Hello am in school my fast year of landscape hope this will help me
Beautiful garden!
Thank you! 👍👊
The only dolomite I’ve heard of is the triumph one. Never heard of that in Plymouth
Great video, how big was the garden dimensions in metres? Looking at a new build and wondering how this compares. Cheers
I always thought dolomite was a triumph car? Great video Andy, like yourself I have a bit of a guilty pleasure of watching gardeners world! Big bush problems aye! 🤔🤪
Lol nowt worse than a big overgrown bush. 👍
Fab video as always. Is it true that you can’t store stuff in the loft and garage of a new build? Cheers
When i bought my newbuild last year we were told we cant store anything up in loft space in house or the garage as they will not hold the weight , so i done only reasonable thing , built a steel frame inside the garage and boarded it out , now i have storage space in garage
@@alandonkin6144 That sounds like a great idea
You need to be careful. Nothing heavy, but should be fine for a few empty boxes etc. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman Thank you 😊
Better than most professional landscapers work
Sure it's not but thank you! 😉👍
Log roll is a terrible thing. I've used it myself and regretted it as you did. I ended up taking it up and replacing it with the milled pressure treated stakes instead. That was about 20 years ago and they're still going strong 🙂 Dolomite? Nope not heard of that before (except for the Triumph car with the same name). I just know that as MOT type 1.
I was gutted about the logroll. Not even worth complaining as they'd just give you more of the awful stuff. 😂👍
Brilliant video, thank you! All in all, what was the cost for a project like this?
Nice!
Great video, just subscribed 👍
ur garden looks wonderful looks like u didn't need any advice at all.
Not heard it called Dolomite here. Could be local depending on what the original bedrock was in the area? Round here (hampshire) the underneath tends to be sticky, nasty clay. makes building sites really unpleasant.
(or is it made from vintage triumph cars? ;) )
Possibly! I've just heard it as a generic term for sub-base up here! 👍😀
In 100 years, someone will look at today's new builds and say "they sure don't build them as well today as they did back then" based on survivor bias.
Wise words! 👍
My house was built 1911...will be here another 100 years and the rest
What are those string lights you had Andy?
Festoon lights - here's an affiliate link for you 😀 amzn.to/36T10jI
What would be a good alternative to those log rolls?
Tbh the lawn doesn't really need it once the garden is mature. Just a nicely cut edge would have been fine. 👍
How big was this garden please?
Dolomite is subsoil. Yellow probably clay.
is a petty the new houses comes unfinished but saying that you can finish it how you wish to your standard top work stay safe.
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Is it Sunday already?
Ha early Sunday video! 😉👍
What is the artist & name of the song at 14:10? Thanks
Got it from lyrics later on - Wildflowers feat. Emmi - We're a Little Messed Up. Thanks
Still a pretty good job for a so called amateur
It's dolomite in Darlington 🤣 those timber rolls are terrible
Yay! Glad it's not just here! Was starting to doubt myself about dolomite. 😂👍
i thought you had a 1920s house
This was the house before - old vid.
TL:DR; version. Just an excuse to sell some old left over products from his shop that haven't sold since 2017. ;-)