Patio Maintenance

While winter means being cooped up indoors for hours engaging in your favourite activity while sipping a steaming cup of hot chocolate, it also means spending the least amount of time tending to your outdoor spaces. Before the cooler months begin to roll in, ensure that your garden, patio, and landscaping are in tip-top shape to enjoy a colourful spring. Here are some ways to keep your outdoor spaces winter-proof, whether the season brings you frosty mornings or rainy afternoons.

Spring is upon us, it's at this time we start to come out of our winter hibernation open up the house and think about cleaning away the winter blues. 

Old timber pergolas or even old steel patios could be hiding some nasty surprises that could need repair or maintenance when wanting to replace with a new patio.

Autumn is here and with it comes the perfect time to prepare your patio for the winter months and rain.

I have lived at my house in the Perth hills for 7 years.  I built a few patios around our house not long after moving in.  Up until last week I had done zero maintenance on my patios in that time.

Gutters are added to all houses built in Perth.  It is a requirement of the Building Code of Australia (BCA).  If we actually harvested this water into water tanks I could understand this need for gutters, but that can be another blog post in itself.