Raised Patio

[SCgreenscapes]

here are a couple of pics from a raised patio we just finished. this was my first time with bullnose coping, what a pain getting everything flush with those sitting on wall block.

[SCgreenscapes]

btw, the gutter is someone elses cross to bear.

[bcwsport]

I hate gutters rollin H2o onto the patio area....We plant all of ours. Take them a ways out beyond the patio area beneath ground or in the subsurface to a weep hole in the retaining walls. Adds so little in material and labor...it is well worth it. Sometimes I know from my experience....you get done and forget to extend and bury it.....almost want to tear up the patio to bury it.....pain in the a$$> I know....i've had to do it. Won't happen the next time though;)

[bcwsport]

The patio here looks pretty well done otherwise. I like the bullnose...softens the look. Check out tumbled bullnose...they work really nicely with tumbled pavers in your pattern.

[mrusk]

The only way the down spout is someone elses proablem is if it was installed after the patio.

So was it?

[bcwsport]

I know of a quick fix there.....put an old wine barrel there and create a small grey water system.

[SCgreenscapes]

gotcha both on this one. right below the grill is a drain that escapes on the street corner. My comment about the gutter is just that a gutter person is coming in to move it into the drain vs. me tring to move it myself. I have a ways to go, but i am not that green.

thanks for the positive comments.