Design / Cost our Garden?
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Moved into a new house - rear garden is none existent. We have nothing but rough soil / spoil down.
Its approx 10 x 8m
We're not massive gardeners so looking for something low maintenance but where we can sit out to eat etc.
So basically, a patio area or decking, the rest liad to turf with maybe a couple of raised flower beds.
Pictures:
The sun comes up from the right of the house in this picture from about 11am we have sun accross the whole of the garden until it sets bottom left corner in this picture. Meaning sunshine mostly in the corner infront of the single door.
So how much do we reckon to lay a curved patio from one side down to the other and then turf the rest with a couple of beds in too?
Or am i missing something clever that we should be thinking of doing?
Its approx 10 x 8m
We're not massive gardeners so looking for something low maintenance but where we can sit out to eat etc.
So basically, a patio area or decking, the rest liad to turf with maybe a couple of raised flower beds.
Pictures:
The sun comes up from the right of the house in this picture from about 11am we have sun accross the whole of the garden until it sets bottom left corner in this picture. Meaning sunshine mostly in the corner infront of the single door.
So how much do we reckon to lay a curved patio from one side down to the other and then turf the rest with a couple of beds in too?
Or am i missing something clever that we should be thinking of doing?
The pictures were taken fairly early morning - by about 10:00am the garden is in full sunlight - sun comes over the top of the house and garden in full sunlight until prob 7 / 8 pm
Will try to get some better pictures.
Couple of quotes we've had have come in at around the £3k mark for levelling, patio, and turf.
Never having had to do this before I have no idea if this is abbout right or not?!
Will try to get some better pictures.
Couple of quotes we've had have come in at around the £3k mark for levelling, patio, and turf.
Never having had to do this before I have no idea if this is abbout right or not?!
All good advice!
Yeah we had a similar sized garden in our last place.
We enjoy using it, but aren't really "gardeners" as such - we'll mow the lawn and maybe plant some flowers once a year.
Its more somewhere to sit in the evening, eat, BBQ, Chimenea etc.
Access to the garage is just inside the single door so we think we can get away without a shed.
Only thing we would need is a bin store of some sort - thinking in the left hand corner as you look at the house.
Yeah we had a similar sized garden in our last place.
We enjoy using it, but aren't really "gardeners" as such - we'll mow the lawn and maybe plant some flowers once a year.
Its more somewhere to sit in the evening, eat, BBQ, Chimenea etc.
Access to the garage is just inside the single door so we think we can get away without a shed.
Only thing we would need is a bin store of some sort - thinking in the left hand corner as you look at the house.
randlemarcus said:
While its not planted up, its probably worth borrowing a spade, and seeing how deep the building rubble/leftover insulation and plastic brick pallet wrappers are buried.
If you have six inches of stone filled cheap top soil on top of a tip, nothing is going to work properly, and if the builders are still around, you can shout at them now
Buried?!If you have six inches of stone filled cheap top soil on top of a tip, nothing is going to work properly, and if the builders are still around, you can shout at them now
I don't need a shovel
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