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[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

Hello

We have just had our front garden and back yard sorted out. This involved new fencing with concrete posts and bottoms around both front and back. Removal of old fencing, rotten wooden panelling, gates and membrane. We now have new membrane, shingle, railway sleepers, fencing etc. We had 4 people doing it in one day. It looks good but I think we have over paid at £4,000. Yes I know we have paid it but it was all organised by my husband and I do worry we have paid too much to basically replace and tidy.

You don't say how big an area, or how long the fence is but, if you've already paid it you should stop worrying about how much it cost and start enjoying your tidy garden.

That's actually a lot of work to do that properly. Plus materials plus proper disposal of waste.

You haven't said how big the space is or how much was fenced or what type of fencing and posts.

Besides which you've already paid. Even if you had overpaid it's too late to worry now and won't achieve anything. If you have work done in future get at least 3 quotes first.

Thank you. Both spaces are quite small the back yard is 10ft by 4ft and the fence is 6ft tall and goes down one long side and one short side plus a new gate. They also fixed our neighbours fence where the council had just attached it to our gate post so it was floating!

On the front it was new fence on three sides of a 12ft square garden. One end has a slope which is now two steps and shingled with railway sleeper edges.

I actually feel quite reassured now. We paid out a lot before on the front but it fell apart quite quickly and our 'top of the range' lawn very quickly was full of weeds. This time we are going to put some top soil on and then add grass seed.

We haven't spent anything for over 6 years so I suppose I can't complain really!

There has been a huge increase in cost of all types of gardening and landscaping materials at the moment, timber in particular, as well as all of it being hard to get hold of. It sounds fairly reasonable from the cost of the materials etc required, plus labour and waste disposal.

For that small size garden, I think you have been overcharged, yes.