Just been quoted over £13k to do our front drive. It's currently a gravel monstrosity, probably lovely when first done, but now just weedy and tatty looking. It's also HUGE. Quote was for block paving to create a driveway and parking area, and then taking a sort of semi circular/ corner off and turfing, with a metre wide bed with shrubs.
So..... Obviously I am not suggesting Dh and I block pave or Tarmac the drive, but if we were to, for example, remove the gravel in that one area, and redistribute it on the areas that need replenished, dig down a bit, add some top soil and turf......is that a do-able option? How difficult would it be to lay a curved edge of stones, and a straight edge along to create a border? Would we need great skill, or special tools? Heavy manual labour we can do. Just not sure if we can do cement.....
My rationale being that even if we made an absolute dog's dinner if it, it probably wouldn't increase the quote too much to put it right. But we could make it look quite lovely for a fraction of the quote.
Would you attempt it? Are we stark raving bonkers? Excuse the weird pic but I had to edit my actual house out of the picture- they are from our particulars when we bought. It currently looks far less loved and cared for. The clump of tree in the middle would go. As would the high fence. Shrubs against the far wall. 2nd picture is view from the house looking outwards
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Would you (or should we?) consider doing this ourselves?
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thenewaveragebear1983 · 09/10/2017 20:52
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