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What's the difference between a soakaway and a French drain?

What’s the difference between a soakaway and a French drain?

As a landscaping professional, you know the importance of drainage, and of using the right drainage solutions to avoid waterlogged land and flooded buildings.

FAQs about landscaping fabrics

FAQs about landscaping fabrics

When you’re tackling a new garden project, you might be weighing up the pros and cons of laying a landscaping fabric. Here, we answer some of the most commonly asked questions about weed control and landscaping fabrics.

The pros and cons of landscape fabrics

The pros and cons of landscape fabrics

When re-designing and landscaping either an entire garden or space, or revamping a particular area, producing long-lasting results are a prerequisite. One of the best ways to ensure a landscaped area’s long-term stability and suppress weed growth is by including a geotextile fabric in the installation.

Landscaping solutions – project essentials

With the landscaping season nearly upon us now is the time to stock up on those landscaping supplies that will equip you for the year ahead, helping you to create landscapes that wow your customers and have them recommending you to others.

Building solutions – site essentials

Building solutions – site essentials

Every building professional knows that it pays to be prepared because building jobs always throw up plenty of challenges. Complete your site essentials checklist and you’ll be ready to get the job done well and with fewer delays, whatever turns up.

Building solutions – vapour control

Building solutions – vapour control

A building project always involves challenges and one of the biggest is preventing damp. It is critical that you get your damp-proofing solution right.
Building solutions – damp-proofing

Building solutions – damp-proofing

Building projects throw up plenty of challenges and one of the biggest is damp. Damp can wreak havoc on a property, causing all sorts of significant and hard-to-fix damage.
Building solutions – on-site protection materials

Building solutions – on-site protection materials

The safety of workers, equipment and construction work on a building site is critical and having the right on-site protection materials is essential to preventing accidents and damage.
Building solutions – expansion joints

Building solutions – expansion joints

As a building professional, making sure that any brickwork, blockwork and concrete that you lay doesn’t crack is key. Use the wrong building materials or use materials incorrectly and the customer is looking at unsightly cracks and possibly structural problems, and you’ll be facing a costly repair bill and a big hit to your reputation.
Building solutions – cracks in plaster, render, concrete and screed

Building solutions – cracks in plaster, render, concrete and screed

A building job can throw up plenty of challenges and one of the big ones is cracks in plaster, render, concrete and screed. As building site problems go, there’s not much that’s worse.

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