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This is a practical guide to building your own garden and patio surfaces. Homeowners can learn a lot more with this book than just how to pour a perfect concrete slab or how to lay a paving stone. They will learn all kinds of decorative effects for new patios and driveways (staining, scoring, stuccoing and stamping) plus techniques for jazzing up existing concrete and recycling old concrete. - Planning - Excavation and Edging - Dry-Laid Patios - - Paths - Working with Concrete - Building Walls - * Step by step full colour photograph sequences show how to build with brick, concrete, stone, paving stones, tiling & timber. * New and innovative ideas for paths, patio floors, walls and stairs. * Up to date information on the latest tools, materials & techniques. * In full colour throughout, with 235 illustrations and photos.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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If you have a base knowledge of the areas covered by this book, there are better books to help build your knowledge, this really is a basic guide only.
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I recently purchased this book, along with several others, to help me with a backyard landscaping project involving a flagstone patio, walkways, and low retaining walls. I found this to be the least useful of the lot. It is neither a good how-to book nor a source of inspiration and ideas. It covers far too many different techniques, from stepping stones to pavers to bricks to concrete to flagstones, all of them at a fairly superficial level. It had very little on using flagstones, which is primarily what I wanted information on. Furthermore, some of the excavating and edging techniques recommended seemed at odds with what I had read elsewhere.
The book had some pictures of completed projects, but they were for the most part pedestrian and had little or no explanation of the design principles demonstrated in them. For a more comprehensive look at the topic, I would suggest "Start-to Finish Patios" from Ortho Books. It is much longer and covers both ideas and suggestions and building techniques much more comprehensively. It even goes into lighting and pergolas.
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