Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:25 pm
Hi all,
Might not be quite on topic for here, I'm not sure, but you gave me some excellent advice years ago about concrete imprinted driveways so I thought I'd see if you could take a look at our current project.
We're looking to have our rear garden completely re-done, literally the lot - turf, paving, walled edges to borders, and an almost complete perimeter fence.
In our perhaps naïve minds my wife and I pulled a £5000 budget out of the hat to cover the garden work and a further £2000 for the fencing.
For an idea of scale, the garden is approx. 9 metres x 12 metres. The fence would be ~18metres plus a further 9 metres in length.
The first landscape company we had to visit (after much research!) were great, their ideas and previous work fitted us perfectly, but when we started to talk about budget they felt the £5000 was not enough, by the time they considered the turfing and clearance/prep work involved.
In all honesty, the budget was plucked out of thin air, we had no idea on realistic costs, so they may well be right. They came back and suggested that it would be closer to £9000 for all the ideas we discussed (including main patio area, additional corner patio with pergola, walled edging etc.), new lawn and all the planting. They actually said this would be a lower profit margin than they like to work on, but who knows!
We are awaiting pricing on the fencing, but I suspect we're probably about right for this £2000 budget, whether we go concrete post or full wooden design.
I guess I'm curious if people think this £9000 figure for full landscaping, Indian sandstone paving work for the patio, second corner raised patio with pergola, then walled edging to borders and a path front to back seems about right? This was with all planting and we need to confirm if this also includes an 8 metre section of walling in the front garden as well.
It is a reasonably large garden area, and pretty much the whole lot of it needs stripped out within this £9000, however never ever pricing up this type work, I'd be keen to know people's thoughts
We have a second company visiting this week, so we will get some idea of comparisons, fingers crossed the £9000 is actually a good price as we really liked the first company and their portfolio of work!
Cheers for any replies!
Chris
Might not be quite on topic for here, I'm not sure, but you gave me some excellent advice years ago about concrete imprinted driveways so I thought I'd see if you could take a look at our current project.
We're looking to have our rear garden completely re-done, literally the lot - turf, paving, walled edges to borders, and an almost complete perimeter fence.
In our perhaps naïve minds my wife and I pulled a £5000 budget out of the hat to cover the garden work and a further £2000 for the fencing.
For an idea of scale, the garden is approx. 9 metres x 12 metres. The fence would be ~18metres plus a further 9 metres in length.
The first landscape company we had to visit (after much research!) were great, their ideas and previous work fitted us perfectly, but when we started to talk about budget they felt the £5000 was not enough, by the time they considered the turfing and clearance/prep work involved.
In all honesty, the budget was plucked out of thin air, we had no idea on realistic costs, so they may well be right. They came back and suggested that it would be closer to £9000 for all the ideas we discussed (including main patio area, additional corner patio with pergola, walled edging etc.), new lawn and all the planting. They actually said this would be a lower profit margin than they like to work on, but who knows!
We are awaiting pricing on the fencing, but I suspect we're probably about right for this £2000 budget, whether we go concrete post or full wooden design.
I guess I'm curious if people think this £9000 figure for full landscaping, Indian sandstone paving work for the patio, second corner raised patio with pergola, then walled edging to borders and a path front to back seems about right? This was with all planting and we need to confirm if this also includes an 8 metre section of walling in the front garden as well.
It is a reasonably large garden area, and pretty much the whole lot of it needs stripped out within this £9000, however never ever pricing up this type work, I'd be keen to know people's thoughts
We have a second company visiting this week, so we will get some idea of comparisons, fingers crossed the £9000 is actually a good price as we really liked the first company and their portfolio of work!
Cheers for any replies!
Chris
