Patio Maintenance

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.