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Garden Question
Topic Started: Mar 24 2010, 05:11 PM (240 Views)
pooley
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I want to get rid of a section of grass in my garden.

I already have the slabs to lay down in place of the grass so should be a nice cheap project.

I want to do it all myself because it seems silly to pay someone for something I could quite easily (I hope) do myself. My question is this though - is a skip the best way to get rid of the grass/dirt I want to move and if so how can I calculate the size of skip I want? The ground is pretty level as well so should be easy enoguh to o with a bit of muscle put into it?
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Woodbine
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If the area isn't too large, then a few trips to your local refuse depot would save paying £100 for a skip. Or fill a few green refuse bags to leave out for the dustman.

Can the soil be used on other areas of your garden?
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Woodbine
Mar 24 2010, 06:08 PM
If the area isn't too large, then a few trips to your local refuse depot would save paying £100 for a skip. Or fill a few green refuse bags to leave out for the dustman.

Can the soil be used on other areas of your garden?

nah not really to be fair. Our bin men will not take out soil aparantly when I asked.
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your local tip will take dirt / grass anything as long as you visit a tip thats within your area ie, you cant live in solihull and tip in brum.
and going in a car will be simpler than a van.
better sitll ask the neighbours theres always someone who needs what you dont
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trev984
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Pooley. Take it from me, I've been a part time professional gardner for some ten years now since retiring and of course at my age I have a lot of experience.

The best thing you can do is take off the turf you don't want as neat as you can and stack it upside down (brown side up) in a corner of your garden,. Stack it as neat as you can, and leave it twelve months and you'll have the best mulch top soil you could get. Then use it on your borders. I can assure you it will rot down easily.

This may sound like work, but you are going to have to work any way to get it into the skip, or whatever. Of course it's also the cheapest. No cost involved.

Good luck. Let me know if you want more advice.
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trev984
Mar 24 2010, 10:08 PM
Pooley. Take it from me, I've been a part time professional gardner for some ten years now since retiring and of course at my age I have a lot of experience.

The best thing you can do is take off the turf you don't want as neat as you can and stack it upside down (brown side up) in a corner of your garden,. Stack it as neat as you can, and leave it twelve months and you'll have the best mulch top soil you could get. Then use it on your borders. I can assure you it will rot down easily.

This may sound like work, but you are going to have to work any way to get it into the skip, or whatever. Of course it's also the cheapest. No cost involved.

Good luck. Let me know if you want more advice.

cheers mate

yeah any advice is good - can I just dig up the grass and then lay the slabs or do I need to cement them in or use builders sand etc?
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maulley54
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hi pooley, if its for a patio you need a bed of sharp sand well troden down and flattened firmly. if it is next to your house ensure it slopes away slightly. when you are happey with the level use string as a straight edge and i usually put my slabs down on a dry mix of 3 sand and 1 cement, gently tapping down the slab, not to hard or you will break it. other people put them down by putting 5 blobs of cementon the underside of the slab. one in each corner and one in the middle.work in rows and use spacers,keep checking the level. when its finished put a dry mix again in the gaps between the slabs. dont water it as it may stain the slabs, let it dry naturally. keep off it for a couple of days to let it bed in.
good luck mate.
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Migster
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The lengths that some people will go to in order to build a dojo in their back garden...
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Mar 25 2010, 10:40 AM
The lengths that some people will go to in order to build a dojo in their back garden...

haha already got that mate :P

We have a massive piece of grass and its a pain, im only leaving most of it there for drainage and so the dog has some grass. Our garden istoo big, outside the house we have a patio, then there is a little step up to where we have a second patio to the right o the garden and to the left is the big grass area, we then have a rockery with my gym ontop of the rockery, if I had my way I'djust concrete the whole lot but I know that causes problems with drainage etc
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maulley54
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blimey pooley it sounds like you cross 2 counties when you mow your lawn.
do you get paid thousands for being a mod?
anyway why not just ask the blues head groundman he is used to working on sand.
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maulley54
Mar 26 2010, 08:39 AM
blimey pooley it sounds like you cross 2 counties when you mow your lawn.
do you get paid thousands for being a mod?
anyway why not just ask the blues head groundman he is used to working on sand.

lol nah but I think the garden is worth more than the house itself in terms if the land it covers lol
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