Who would you get to dismantle things?

[MawkishHawk]

We’ve just bought a house with what will hopefully be a fab garden. Plenty of space - it was horribly overgrown, we hacked a lot back and I have lots of ideas for design. I’ve had an allotment before but never my own proper garden. Very exciting!

There is a massive old deck that I need to get rid of, it’s ancient and an eyesore, and not where I want a seating area, I want a greenhouse and vegetable garden in that area.

Anyway my question is who would you get to clear it? Dismantle the deck and balustrades and some other random bits like a rusted metal shed and get rid of it? It’s not technical work, I’d just rather pay someone to get it done and spend my own time playing with plants and other stuff :-)

Is it something a normal gardener would do as a one off job? Or another kind of tradesman?

We want to get some fencing done on top of the wall down one side of the garden, and I suspect getting rid of the deck first will give the fencing people more space to work. Plus once it’s gone I can lay out the veggie patch and get the greenhouse ordered :-)

Garden clearance? General handy man? Man & van rubbish removal service?

The garden clearance service I looked up online was all about hacking back green vegetation rather than breaking down a structure - do you think that would be the kind of person to ask though? The rubbish removal service seemed to expect everything to be ready to put in a van too.

We could do this ourselves I just foresee it being multiple weekends of work to dismantle and a zillion carloads to the tip. I just want it gone yesterday and a lovely blank space to start building my garden! I bet people who knew what they were doing could do it in a day.

You can hire a skip or get a Hippo bag,

Or get a landscaping firm to strip it and put up the stuff you want like fences, greenhouse base etc.

You need a fencing/decking contractor. They'll have it out in a jiffy.

Or a general handyman the sort who will turn his hand to almost anything. Ask on your local facebook page - these are the sort of people who operate through small local ads rather than through an internet presence.

Anyone will do almost anything if the price is right

And then you'll need a waste disposal person to take it away - make sure they are licensed and you see their license otherwise there's a risk you'll spot your decking dumped inside a local farmer's gate.