Rough cost for garden

[Paigeworkerx]

Hello all,

Started to ask landscapers for some quotes but wanted to see is anyone can give me an idea of costs.

small garden (new build) wooden planters down the side, artificial grass for 2/3 and final 3rd paving or Indian stone.

any ideas will be helpful. Thank you.

I did something similar in last house for a small outdoor space no bigger than my kitchen/ diner. Was about 12k 10 years ago. I was also having raised beds built and fencing. I had a new born and a toddler at the time and it was north facing, real grass would not grow, so artificial grass suited that fine and was safer and looked much better than the trip hazard undulating concrete slabs that predated it.

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A lot depends where you are.
DS did this in a similar size garden in south Yorkshire except for raised beds. Raised beds seem to be a fashion and I could see little advantage over normal beds.
Quotes via my builder.
Total was £2200 for paving 1/3 of the area plus path down side of house. £500 for turf (grass not plastic).
If you don't want to mow grass maybe consider an alternative to plastic grass?

With a totally new garden, I would strongly consider hiring a garden designer. Starts at under 1K - yes it's an extra cost but can save all kinds of expenses later on. They can also hook you up with local landscapers and help you find the most cost-effective options.

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money saving I’m just getting savaged for wanting artificial grass

What is the difference in turf to artificial grass?

The landscapers I’ve picked all do garden designs it’s pretty standard where I live

I love all the eco warriors on here doom mongering about a few square metres of astroturf and how the wildlife will suffer 🤣 it’s hardly the Exxon Valdez is it 🙄.

Every few squares adds up. My street used to be front gardens. Now it's driveways. Our native species are declining.

What a blinkered and crass comment from Diyextension - have people really not learned yet that many 'littles' add up to 'a great deal' and every extra square yard of plastic 'grass' adds to even less habitat for other living things which have the misfortune to have to try and survive alongside Homo sapiens. FFS, the epitome of arrogance and certainly not a laughing matter

Jeez. I didn’t expect the braveheart of the eco warrior world to turn up 💪🏼🤣

I’m ignoring them as I’m assuming their all vegan, recycle clothing, free walking angels and they don’t anything that would effect the planet such as daring to fly abroad on holidays.

My house actually has solar panels, an hedgehog highway and I have electric car, recycle etc just not perfect and also attempting to live my life 🤣🤣

I paid £6k last year for the following:
3mx3m patio relaid with Indian sandstone
Side return dug up and paved with Indian sandstone
New step created
2 small raised beds
Slate path approx 7m
4sqm turf laid

West Midlands

Please reconsider the artificial grass. It’s horrendous for the environment. If anything plays on it (kids, dogs, adult humans exercising), it sheds tiny bits of plastic that are carried on the breeze into waterways, damaging waterbirds and fish. It becomes extremely hot to the touch in hot sun and literally fries any insect landing on it and of course it’s completely inhospitable to bees, other insects, worms etc. it’s terrible stuff.

Ignoring the eco issues around artificial grass, it really does get insanely hot. Someone I know was at an event where they had to stand on AstroTurf on a very hot day and the glue in their shoes started to melt!

What is the difference in turf to artificial grass?
Turf is grass and artificial grass is plastic.
I have no opinion on ecological grounds just that all the fake grass I've seen looks a mess after a couple of years. I assume it's favoured as labour saving but you could achieve that in different ways. I do agree that grass is a pita to look after and if I was starting my garden afresh I would avoid it.

We've got exactly what you've said. Planters around the edge filled with stones, 2/3 artificial grass. This cost us £2,170 2.5 years ago so may have increased in price.

We've also just have the patio replaced with imprinted concrete (whilst having our drive done) which cost us £1k, but that was "cheap" because they were already here doing the drive and doing our neighbour's drive, too.

Why do you want artificial grass? Could you use something else instead, if you don't want to maintain real grass? What will you be doing on the artificial grass?

My garden is roughly 5.5m x 8m.

I just saw you're also in the North West. If it happens to be Greater Manchester or nearby, the company I used was called Stone The Crows Landscapes Ltd.

As I say, prices may have increased as we did ours pre-Covid and pre-Brexit but we had a cracking price off him and he did a great job.

I’m in shock as we were quoted 17K a few weeks ago to have our grassy part of our garden levelled, it would be done with sleepers and it’s about 8m wide in total. The gradient isn’t that bad maybe 20-30 cms difference top to bottom. A bit of soil adding and returfing. Nearly fell over when I read it.

This has to be the biggest load of bullshit i have read on mumsnet. @AnnieSnap I applaud your attempts to educate and look after the planet. BUT please if you are going to talk such shite you do not help your cause.

It doesnt become extremely hot to touch in hot sun. My two dogs laid out cooling off from the sun all weekend. One on the patio, the other on the artificial turf. ZERO difference.

In what universe does it literally fry any insects? It is not inhospitable to bees and insects. OK its not helping them pollinate but my garden, filled with flowers, bushes and tubs was a hive of activity of the insect variety all weekend. I have loads of photos of them.

We will be talking about it eating children next.

@terrywynne any chance of explaining how artificial grass, which is made out of rubber and plastic managed to get so hot it melted some persons shoes but didnt melt itself?

I have had artifical grass for 15years. In that time i have never witnessed it get anywhere near too hot to walk on barefoot.

I'm in NW cheapish area and paid £2.5k to have my yard flagged, ivy cut back and walls painted last year It's a standard sized terraced yard, so smaller than yours.

I am furthest from the vegan hippy stereotype you could possibly imagine but I wouldn't get fake grass

www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/aug/02/turf-it-out-is-it-time-to-say-goodbye-to-artificial-grass

It's a disaster for the environment. Also all the people that I know who have it are chavs.

We paid around £8K a few years ago to have our rear garden completely redone. It flooded in heavy rain which always ended up lapping against the house. So we wanted land drains in.

They estimated five days start to finish but it was longer as when the digger scraped off the top layer of turf they found foundations from sheds and glasshouses that we didn't know were there. They had to go hire a HUGE tipper truck to put the excess debris in. The £8K quote was for the land drains, laying a large patio by the house, building a pergola and arch along near the back where our sheds are, laying hard standing around the sheds (nice cobble setts, flat ones), laying path from the patio to the arch in front of the sheds and laying turf. They also relaid the existing slabs in the side return.

It seemed a lot at the time but I've never regretted it for a second, the land drains work so well and it all looks good. I feel now we actually got a good deal! Our garden is about 24m long (not including the side return), so not that small either.