Hi gardeners! I'm a total beginner and needing your wisdom! We have a small/medium sized garden which at the moment is entirely grey with awful paving slabs. I'm hoping to redesign and have some grass down, I have a toddler and baby on the way who deserve a nice outdoor space.
Having lifted one of the slabs, and they are all fairly loose and wobbly, it looks like they weren't laid on concrete. Struggling to attach a photo but I think it might be sand? It feels soft with some odd rubble bits.
My question is what to do after we have lifted them? Do we need to dig all of this stuff up? Or does topsoil go on top of this? And if topsoil goes on top then has some of this got to be dug up so that it's height plus the top soil height doesn't make the garden too high?!
In the best case scenario we can lift the stones, lay topsoil and then lay turf. Without getting gardener/odd job men and power tools involved. Grateful for your advice, thank you.