Mike Carbery Landscapes

Landscaping for the Greater Dublin area

  • Home
  • Services
    • Design
    • Construction
    • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Links
  • Contact Us
Home / Drains/Manholes / Fin Drains (Drains/Manholes)

Fin Drains (Drains/Manholes)

Slot drain
Drains and manholes can be unsightly, and often situated in aesthetically unpleasing places. Recessed covers can be used to discretely hide a manhole cover, and retain access to it. Keeping the paving pattern uninterrupted further distracts the eye to it’s presence. Grill drains can be used to divert water from a paved area into a soakaway or the storm water system of a house. The galvanised grill drains are robust enough to withstand vehicle traffic, and the brickslot drain is even more discrete, showing only a 25mm open drain slot in the paved surface.

Projects using Fin Drains

Balbriggan Modern garden

This pergola bench bed, is the centre piece of this contemporary garden. The raised bed was a single pour concrete shuttered job, with the steel supports for the floating bench set during the pour. The seat is of larch timber, as is the pergola. The paving is Saigon blue limestone with silver granite cobbles as […]

Read More

Latest Projects

Gentle Curve

This long curving path in gold granite cobble, is repeated in the planting, as bands of colour on the same pathway.

3D Drawings

Some sample drawings, some in final draft , others in blue tone, are at layout stage, where choice of material is yet to be chosen.

White Render

Instead of painting walls and raised beds, white render gives a permanent colour, some even incorporate fungicide to deter green algae discolouration.

Reclaimed brick patio

    This striking urban garden has reclaimed brick as the dominant feature along with architectural planting. The herringbone pattern of the paving zigzag-ed around garden allowing pockets for the planting to creep into the gaps. Timber lattes painted black give an interesting texture to the boundaries, and also disguise an ugly wall with many […]

Balbriggan Modern garden

This pergola bench bed, is the centre piece of this contemporary garden. The raised bed was a single pour concrete shuttered job, with the steel supports for the floating bench set during the pour. The seat is of larch timber, as is the pergola. The paving is Saigon blue limestone with silver granite cobbles as […]

Copyright © 2009–2021 Mike Carbery Landscapes · Privacy Policy