update, done the corner of the garden now, took some digging and topsoil
left a border round the edge for plants but need some topsoil to fill it up a bit

needs a mini football piych being laid down on that !! looks awesome

Just needs fencing all way round now but I'll wait till I get my bonus in March cos it's gonna be costly!

Dont ask why but just thought I'd show you my garden :lol:

It was a proper jungle before so got a digger in to clear it all



Then this is the turf half layed, round the back of the garage wasn't done on these:




The missus asked for some garden for our young 'un to run around on when he can walk....poor little lad is gonna be knackered running up and down that! Gonna get some footy nets for each end :lol:

Bloody hell £900 is extortianate!!

My garden is 80 foot long and 20 wide, think it worked out about 200sqm....
I got someone in to do it for me, he brought about 20 tonne of top soil to level it a bit more (my garden is on a slant) and the turf and I paid £650.

Turf alone was gonna cost me about £500.

£230 seems expensive for 50sq m but you have gone for better turf. We just got the 'family lawn' one.....still looks lush though now

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Originally posted by Cosmo
A gypo only accepts jobs so they can scope out their next targets.

If they see a decent bike in the garage, or mower in the shed they'll be back for it that night!!

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A gypo only accepts jobs so they can scope out their next targets.

If they see a decent bike in the garage, or mower in the shed they'll be back for it that night!!

tbh, I'd rather pay a 'pro' 2k than a gypo £2, regardless of quality.

Gypos are the way forward. They have been doing a few odd jobs for people on my street for next to nothing and the workmanship is as good as if you'd paid a so called professional. Granted you'd only let them work in your garden instead of the house as they'll rob you but isn't that what these people who charge 2k for 3 days work are doing?

I had a quote from a couple of people to do all of the work in my garden, averaged out at 9k, ended up ordering all of the materials for £1800 and me and my brother in law did the work ourselves in the space of a week.:boggle:

Labouring is the way forward, people just think they can charge a fortuune for doing something any old monkey could do.

No.

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Originally posted by Cosmo
I said they'd charge a fortune.

My sister got 3 quotes for laying a smallish patio and creating a barked area so she could put a swing and stuff on for her sprog. Few days work at most, nothing hard to do...they were all over £2k when they came in :lol:

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I said they'd charge a fortune.

My sister got 3 quotes for laying a smallish patio and creating a barked area so she could put a swing and stuff on for her sprog. Few days work at most, nothing hard to do...they were all over £2k when they came in :lol:

LOL, just had a bloke round to gimme a quote, to supply and lay the turf, no prep work required at all, £900 for a days work!!!

Just ordered the turf myself for £230(top quality aswell) and gonna do it next weekend.

laying it is the easy part, takes no time at all

topsoils done now.

£2.50-£3 a meter if you do it yourself
looks like you might need a bit of topsoil aswell

Yeah guess so, was just hoping somebody would know a ballpark figure.

This is the what I've done so far.
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=364939

With the price of (even shitty!) general labourers these days they'll charge some silly amount to do it at a guess.

Only way to know for sure would be to get out the old yellow pages and ring around.

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Originally posted by Cosmo
easy as piss to lay it yourself, someone would no doubt cost the earth to do it though!

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easy as piss to lay it yourself, someone would no doubt cost the earth to do it though!

Anybody know the going rate per m2? Also how much would it usually cost for somebody to lay it? About 50m2 in total.:thumbs: