Services
From a single tarmac driveway to a full landscape and garden room build, Knightscapes handles the whole project under one roof.
We install a range of different services built on a properly excavated sub-base with full drainage and crisp edging - the way a driveway should last for decades, not seasons.
From a tired lawn to a full back-garden rebuild, we handle design, hard landscaping, planting and lighting under one roof.
A proper garden room you can use year-round: insulated walls and roof, double-glazed doors, finished electrics and lighting - built start to finish by our team.
Fencing built to stand up to wind, weather and time - properly concreted posts, square panels and tidy finishes.
Retaining walls and steps built on proper concrete footings - the structural side of the garden, done right.
A reliable local gardener for the in-between jobs - lawn cuts, hedge work, seasonal tidy-ups and full leaf clearance - by the same crew that handles our bigger landscaping projects.
Garden design that works back from how you'll actually use the space - rather than a polished drawing that nobody can afford to build. Sketch plans, planting schemes and a fixed-quote build, all under one roof.
When the existing drive, path or patio mostly works but a section has failed, we'd rather repair than upsell a full rebuild - re-jointing, re-levelling, patching and repointing done properly.
Block paving is our recommended finish where the driveway needs to handle turning cars, look tidy from the road, and last more than a decade without sinking. Every job is a full sub-base rebuild - not a re-lay on the old sand.
Resin-bound driveways look sharp, drain freely and don't shed loose stone. The finish is only as good as what sits under it, so we treat the base as the real job and the resin coat as the finish.
Gravel done well looks fantastic on a period frontage - and done badly, it ends up in the gutter. We always lay gravel over a plastic honeycomb grid so cars don't rut the stone or push it onto the pavement.
A tired block-paved drive rarely needs replacing - it just needs a proper clean, joint re-sanding and, if you want, a sealer to keep it that way. We do the whole job in a day for most drives.
Concrete posts and gravel boards outlast timber posts by 15-20 years and won't rot at ground level. Combined with a treated timber panel or close-board infill, it's the boundary system we recommend to almost every long-term homeowner.
Close-board is the strongest domestic timber fence you can buy because it's built rail-by-rail on site, not slotted together as a pre-made panel. Individual feather-edge boards can be swapped years later without dismantling the whole run.
For sites that need a fence rated to keep people (or livestock) in or out, the specification changes completely. We install commercial-grade timber, weld-mesh, palisade and acoustic systems for schools, industrial units, sports clubs and community sites.
Not every fence problem needs a full replacement. Where two or three panels have blown out or a single post has snapped, we can repair in a day and match the existing run so the fix isn't obvious.
Aluminium driveway gates fail differently to timber - it's almost never the gate leaf itself, it's the hinges, the hinge post foundation, or the motor. We service, re-hang and repair aluminium gates so you get the gate you originally bought back working rather than replacing the whole set.
Security fencing is bought against a risk, not a look. Whether the driver is plant theft from a yard, unauthorised access to a substation compound, or a school safeguarding line, the specification starts with height, climb resistance and how the perimeter behaves at gates and corners. We survey the site, write the spec down, and install around your working hours so the compound is never left open overnight.
Steel palisade remains the default hard perimeter for yards, depots and industrial units because it resists attack with hand tools far better than mesh and reads as a deterrent from the road. The detail that matters is the pale: profile, height, gauge and top finish decide both how hard the fence is to defeat and how it looks to a neighbour or a planning officer. We specify all of it in writing before anyone digs.
Weld mesh is the perimeter a facilities manager buys when the site is already covered by cameras. The narrow apertures give nothing to a boot or a finger, and the fence stays transparent so a guard or a camera can see a person approaching the line rather than only the top of a head. We survey, write the mesh profile and post centres down, then install without leaving a section open overnight.
Bow top and vertical bar railings are specified where the perimeter has to be safe to be near, not just hard to cross. Schools, nurseries, play areas and housing schemes all need a line that cannot trap a head, does not present a spike at child height, and still looks like part of the landscape rather than a compound. That balance is a design decision, so we start with who stands next to the fence rather than with a price per metre.
An acoustic barrier only works if it has mass and no gaps. That is the whole engineering story, and it is why a standard lap panel fence does nothing for noise. We build acoustic lines from dense tongue and groove timber or composite panels with sealed joints, a closed base detail and posts sized for the wind load a solid barrier attracts. Typical drivers are a planning condition, a plant or chiller enclosure, or a residential boundary against a working yard.
Estate fencing is the opposite brief to a security perimeter. Nobody is trying to keep a thief out; the job is to mark a boundary across open ground, contain stock or horses, and disappear into the landscape while doing it. Long runs, uneven ground and gateways for machinery are the real challenges, so we set out the line first and price the run against ground conditions rather than a flat metre rate.
A gate is the part of a perimeter that moves, so it is the part that fails, and it is also the only part covered by machinery safety law once it is powered. Cantilever, tracked sliding and swing leaves each suit a different site geometry, and the right answer usually comes down to the swept path of your largest vehicle and how much run back space exists behind the opening. Every automated gate we install is force tested and handed over with a Declaration of Conformity.
Most people ring us about fence panels for one of three reasons: a panel blew out in the last storm, the neighbour's dog is getting through, or the whole run has gone grey and wobbly and the garden looks tired because of it. It is a domestic job with domestic concerns, so this page is about panel styles, who owns which side, what it costs and how we get materials down a side alley without wrecking your borders.
Cracked tarmac, sunken paving, a waterlogged lawn or a fence that keeps leaning - our diagnosis pages explain the cause and whether a repair will genuinely hold.
Free site visits and no-pressure quotes within a 30-mile radius of Ash Vale - covering Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
