Removal of pond in the garden

[Lavendar01]

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We are considering putting offer on a house that has two ponds in the garden (with pump filter etc) about 1 metre wide all round

Struggling to get someone to give quote would appreciate if anyone has an idea how much this job can cost - are we looking out hundreds or thousands

Ta!

We paid £3.5k for the removal of similar - but a chunk of that cost was to create a grassy mound in its place. Plus £400 on one tree. We thought that cheap at the time. It took a week of work.

A metre in diameter? That's not a huge job, would you not consider doing it yourself? Obviously does depend on the construction, a raised sides pond made with bricks and concrete is a much bigger job than a lined hole in the ground.

Or you could do what my new NDN did with theirs (they had a toddler and the pond was very deep), they just scooped out as much water as they could and filled it in with rubble and sand.

A handyman might do it, it's quite a small job for landscapers. Imo it would be hundreds rather than thousands but it depends on how much work is involved and also how good you want the finish to be, my neighbours weren't fussy at all...

Sounds like a DIY job, knife through liner, have a plan for any fish/newts etc, buy a wheelbarrow and get a tone of earth delivered. If you can't do it yourself you're talking a few hundred.

We helped our neighbours remove the infrastructure and fill their small pond in over the course of a weekend at a leisurely pace. It’s not a big job. If you don’t want to do it yourself then you’d probably be charged for a couple of days’ work by a two-man team, which depending on where you are in the country is unlikely to be more than a thousand.

We removed our pound ourselves and it was a huge thing with lights and a built in fountain.

It was 5ft deep!

We gave the fish to someone who had a massive pound he needed to restock.
Smashed up the sides, removed the liner. Disconnected the electric and buried what we could. Can't for the life me remember what we used to fill it all in but it really wasn't a massively complicated job.

like above depending on the type you could do it yourself. Slice the liner or dig out a plastic one (or just make a big hole in it) fill it in with delivered of topsoil.

Just make holes in it then fill it with compost. I've done it in my garden as the pond wasn't very attractive and a lot of effort. Mine was an old glass fibre base so I drilled holes in it, filled the deeper bits with a load of old plant posts, etc, then topped up with compost. I've used it for plants that like moisture and you wouldn't know a pond was ever there.

Do you HAVE to remove? Ponds are so vital for wildlife and so many have been removed already. Frogs, newts, all sorts of pond life desperately need them. Could you fence round them or grid over them if safety is your concern? Very educational for children too.

I did it myself, it took two weekends but it was only a butyl liner, not a plastic pond. Can you ask the seller to remove any animals and fish from the pond before they move?

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We did it ourselves...punctured the liner then emptied the crud once it had drained...leaving it for a while for things to move out and on. Then took the liner to the tip.

In retrospect I wish we'd left it, it was a very well established pond - we got rid of it due to building work but they could have worked round it.

Thanks everyone. Sounds like there are feasable options

Could I also ask, how much could a landscaping job cost eg re-paving patio and frong of the garden and replacing artificial grass with real grass the other half?

Thanks everyone

I hope to god you are talking about putting in an offer in my house (exact same pond situation) - it’s been on over a year 🥲 Anyway, we are going to do ours ourselves, and then get it decked over to extend the decking already there and add steps to the lawn - all in, with the decking done by someone professional it will cost us about 1.5k