Concrete for your home
Concrete isn’t just for dams and motorways, bridges and office blocks. It’s one of the least expensive, easiest to use and certainly the most versatile material the DIY-minded householder or gardener could wish for.
You can mix your own concrete from separate ingredients or from prepacked dry mixes, or buy fresh concrete ready-mixed and delivered to your doorstep ready to use.
For garden paving, terraces, walls and a host of other attractive and useful projects you can choose from a vast selection of ‘off the peg’ precast concrete building and garden products in an almost limitless variety of colours, shapes and textures.
Above all, you can create what you want in your own time and to your own budget. Concrete is a permanent material, and oversights are difficult to correct or disguise.
Plan carefully and work methodically at a pace you can keep up with.
A sound, lasting and good-looking job is worth the extra few minutes.
Take a look at this excellent fact sheet which tells you everything on concrete basics, paving, masonry and repairs.
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