Rough cost of updating concrete garden

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Been house hunting and saw a place with potential. Back garden however is concrete with not a bit of grass in sight. Any idea of how much we’d be looking at to remove and replant with grass? Standard-ish size of garden in a 1930s semi. Thanks!

We planted grass seed in our new build and it cost barely anything and came out amazing. You could do it very cheap if you do the work yourself.

Smash the concrete up
Level the area
Compost
Grass seed
More compost
Youll have grass within two weeks

It’s probably quite shallow but worth checking the depth. Then as per pp.

standard 1930’s is a bit vague though. That could be anywhere between 40 and 120 ft. Assuming the former 2-3 days to clear to a skip, cost of a skip, till it over ( more if you want new topsoil and old removed) and seed.

Is it concrete or is it concrete slabs? If slabs put them on Facebook marketplace for free, and you’ll have no shortage of people who’ll want to come and collect them.

If it’s actual concrete then the biggest cost will be hiring a skip to dispose of it.

It’s a fairly easy DIY job.

If it's 20mm thick and old and brittle, smash it with a sledgehammer, chuck it in a skip, assess ground underneath, hopefully just rotovate/rake, add topsoil, rake, plant grass seed.

If it's 50mm of new concrete, you'll probably need proper machinery, and to pay someone. You could hire the breaker and DIY it, but I'm guessing you won't since you are asking this question!

Check you are allowed to put concrete in your skip, sometimes it's not permitted.

Depends on what it is exactly. A previous house of ours had a big part of the garden crazy paved. We decided to remove it ourself with a skip. We did do it but whoever had put it in did a blooming good job with tons of rubble deep beneath. Ended up with a good couple of skips at least. We did manage it but it was a big job. However it can be done and if the house is good, you will make it much more desirable in future with a nice usable garden.