Garden work needed but no side access

[MarineBlue33]

Our used to have side access via the garage but that has been covered into a bedroom.
We now need to do up the garden- level it and a new patio.
So a lot of work.
Has anyone had extensive work done- it's about 120 ft long - but access has to be through the kitchen ?
I can't see any other way but want to know of others' experiences please

This is pretty standard for most terrace houses in London…

my son in law had a massive crane take stuff over the roof into the back (massive massive mature tree and other material).

@fallfallfall Oh my! That must have been a mammoth task.

@Notcontent A lot of London terraces are in blocks and have an alley with a back entrance

In a previous house I had a patio laid and all the fencing done having had all the previous rubbish removed.

It all came through the property that was newly refurbished (apart from the bloody garden).

It’s painful but obviously possible. Loads of terraced houses have absolutely no access other than through the property.

Yes we've had a patio laid and they brought everything through the kitchen. We covered everything with cardboard to try to protect it (floors, sides of units, etc) and put boards down as ramps for wheelbarrows to go over the door steps. It was a hassle but ok. We're having fences replaced soon and they'll be bringing all of that through the house too.

They just bring equipment and such through the kitchen. Normal. I’m in a terrace and there I other access. It might mean the job costs more, though, because access is hard.

What about tree branches that need pruning? Do they go through the house too? 🤔

@MarineBlue33

What about tree branches that need pruning? Do they go through the house too? 🤔

Of course they will. Where else will the contractors take them.

It will probably be a lot more expensive, due to the lack of access.

I've had fencing and pruned trees brought through the house for the same reason as you.

Do your neighbours have side access? Would they let you take stuff through there and then through the fence?

I think your issue will be the levelling as i would Imagine they'd want to use a digger.

@MarineBlue33 I think it’s more standard not to have access - at least in all the areas in central London where I have lived.

I have had all sorts of things carried through my house into the garden, including a large shed. Must suppliers and contractors are used to that.

@MarineBlue33

What about tree branches that need pruning? Do they go through the house too? 🤔

Yes. We had to have a tree removed, and that was very expensive- because of access problems. It has to be cut down in small sections and taken through the house.

My neighbours have had extensions done - no side or rear access - so everything comes through the house - all equipment, building supplies, steel joists, wheelbarrows, workers. Normal.

It could be worse! We once had a load of landscaping work done on a house where not only was the only access through the hallway, living room and dining room, and the road outside was single track with no footway.

Deliveries of materials could only be made by dumping gravel/topsoil/slabs/whatever on the road, which would then be blocked until the labourers moved everything through the house. Similarly, removing any waste meant parking a truck outside blocking the road for as long as it took to load it.

Luckily there wasn't much traffic, but even so when the road was blocked there was a seven mile detour....

Flip, @CasperGutman that is another level of disruption!
Well at least I can see its not insurmountable.