Wie viel würde die Reinigung kosten und würde ich einen Gärtner, Landschaftsgärtner oder einfach nur einen Handwerker suchen? Früher befanden sich im hinteren Garten einige Nebengebäude, die der Vorbesitzer abgerissen hatte. Ich bevorzuge Erde und Gras statt der Platten (?). Und natürlich die Zäune ersetzen. Der größte Teil des Gartens sieht in Ordnung aus, aber das Drittel auf der Rückseite ist in einem unordentlichen Zustand. Ich frage mich, ob es relativ einfach zu entfernen ist und wie teuer?
Von: IndividualPride9968
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Depends on exactly what you want and where abouts in the UK you’re based.
Just approach three local handymen for quotes. They’ll tell you if they aren’t happy to carry out what you require and can perhaps recommend some landscapers if necessary.
It’ll cost you plenty of weekends but it will be worth it in the end.
Dig up what you can and put whatever you want to get rid of on Marketplace and it will soon be gone.
Then just take your time and sort out bits at a time.
Going to take a few skips full to clear it
Cleaned up or re-landscaped?
Because by your description you might want more of the latter…
If you spend some money on a landscaper they could dig out all the mystery remnants, flatten it, put in some beds or structure, and drop some soil / gravel / etc so you have a nice blank canvas.
Probably easiest with a small digger and a couple of tonnes of topsoil / gravel etc delivered. Not sure of cost, but I’d guess tool hire, materials and time to make something more specific and intentional. Then you’re in a slippery slope of planning patios and beds etc but you’ll end up with a better space. You could DIY most / all of it, but proper landscaping is heavy going,
Tidying up you could do yourself / with mates, or with a handyman / Gardener for a day rate. I would have thought 1-2 people for 1-2 days would make a big dent. But without landscaping the fundamentals might not be that radically different.
Id start off chopping everything down to low level to get good access to all of the fence. If that fence isn’t too beat up and rotten, it could be pretty decent after a few coats of dark paint/stain. If not, anywhere from around 600 – 1500 at a guess to replace depending on style of panels and if you go concrete posts over wood the costs increase significantly which would get you more towards the 1500 end.
I’d pull up the slabs and move them to the front and put them up for free collection, if they don’t all shift like that then maybe consider offering delivery, speaking to people at allotments see if they will go there. If still no good find somewhere that takes rubble free to tip or pay the recycling centre or, skip.
Dig out the roots of the bushes.
I’d have some topsoil delivered, amount obviously you’d have to work that out but I’d be looking for about 2/3 inch spread out, I’d go straight over the top of that gravel with it. Be a twat to move that unless you had a skip but won’t do any harm under turf and soil so it’d stay if it were mine.
Then turf over the soil, let that establish then go from there
Gardener by trade. Your garden clean up is dependent on how big is your budget. The fencing alone could easily set you back £2k to £3k and about £3k for the paving. Then to make your garden pretty you’d want to create flower beds with quality compost, decent sized plants, mulch and labour could be £1.5k.
Elbow grease
We did a lot of the graft ourselves. Removing sheds, rubble, slabs etc that we could and didn’t want to pay someone else to do. Paid someone else to do things like fencing. Fencing cost us 3k+
Work out what you can do yourselves and what you can afford to pay someone else to do.
Get a landscaper with some ideas, have a chat, get several quotes, try a designer….
For the fence – if your uprights are sound, you can just buy new panels. Then the cost comes down to what panels you buy. The ones currently in are the cheapest sort but you can get nicer (imo) and sturdier if you pay more. You’ll obviously have confirmed which are yours to look after? You can get an idea about prices with some google.
Only way to know for sure is to get some quotes
That’d be a nice project for the weekend. I’d love to be out there sorting it out 😅
My rule of thumb is that nothing leaves the garden, any demolition gives you hardcore for other projects, all cuttings get burnt or composted, saves a lot of trips to the tip!!