Patio slope

hellykelly11omW-yVzE

Hi, just needing some advice, we recently had a porcelain patio laid and we feel like it has been laid too high. The garden slopes slightly towards the house so drainage has been laid along the house. When we walk on it it feels like a slight hill! It's been laid 1:60 but it didn't even meet our lawn. They laid turf along the patio line and now there is a dip in the grass past the new turf. Any advice at all? I'm not sure you'll get a feel for it from the photos but they are there for reference 

MikeOxgreen

No pictures. 
You need to speak to whoever laid it. Either get yourself a spirit level and prove it or get them round with theirs. 

This is THE place to go for anything like this:
https://www.pavingexpert.com/gradient_01

hellykelly11omW-yVzE

hellykelly11omW-yVzE

Thanks for your comment 👍 I'll try them, the gradient just seems so high. 

hellykelly11omW-yVzE

Just to follow on from this, the patio has been laid at a gradient of 1:50. With no real drop out of the patio doors onto the tiles.

Pete.8

I had a patio laid in 2019.
My garden slopes down toward the house and like you I have French drains against the house for drainage.
They also laid a strip of turf between the existing lawn and the new patio. There is a slight dip where the new turf meets the lawn, but it's hardly noticeable and the torrential rain we've had this morning drains fast.
Over the last 3 years it's mostly settled and sorted itself out.
If I can be bothered I could repeatedly top dress the slight dip over the course of a year which would level it out.

MikeOxgreen

What is the problem with it? You haven't really said.
You haven't said which way it slopes either...

hellykelly11omW-yVzE

Hi, the problem is when we walk out of the house, it goes up almost like a small hill, the gradient for patios is 1:80, this has been laid 1:50, it slopes towards the house but looks and feels noticeable at a high angle. Tks

MikeOxgreen

You mean it slopes down towards the house.
They've had to connect Point A (the lawn) with Point B (the house) in a straight line.
Go outside and look at it, if they'd done it any differently it wouldn't have worked like it has.
The only way to do it differently would have meant a big step up onto the lawn, if that's what you wanted then yes it's wrong. If you didn't want a step then it's correct.

Balgay.Hill

MikeOxgreen said:

You mean it slopes down towards the house.
They've had to connect Point A (the lawn) with Point B (the house) in a straight line.
Go outside and look at it, if they'd done it any differently it wouldn't have worked like it has.
The only way to do it differently would have meant a big step up onto the lawn, if that's what you wanted then yes it's wrong. If you didn't want a step then it's correct.

I think maybe the problem is that it doesn't connect point A to point B, but a point up in the air above the lawn creating a step down onto the lawn? They have then simply laid turf into this dip?

MikeOxgreen

Balgay.Hill said:

MikeOxgreen said:

You mean it slopes down towards the house.
They've had to connect Point A (the lawn) with Point B (the house) in a straight line.
Go outside and look at it, if they'd done it any differently it wouldn't have worked like it has.
The only way to do it differently would have meant a big step up onto the lawn, if that's what you wanted then yes it's wrong. If you didn't want a step then it's correct.

I think maybe the problem is that it doesn't connect point A to point B, but a point up in the air above the lawn creating a step down onto the lawn? They have then simply laid turf into this dip?

It's the other way round, it's a bit low where it meets the lawn.