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Price for making lawn 160sq m

  • 22-05-2012 01:40PM
    #1
    ch750536
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭


    I have a 40m * 40m bog at the back of the house I want to grass over. Have had a quote from a guy who will put 5 drains in (area is square btw) then a layer of pencil then a layer of topsoil.
    Basically:
    _____________________
    Topsoil (dont know depth)
    _____________________
    Pencil (dont know depth)
    _____________________
    OLD SOGGY BOG|Drain*5|

    Anyway, his quote seemed huge so I decided to call around for material prices etc. My question is how much pencil & topsoil would I need for the area? Also if anyone had their own opinion on what the price should be that would be great.


Comments

  • #2
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    :confused: when you jump up and down in the bog, how far do you sink? oh but wait a sec, I don't know how much you weigh, so that i can use this method to calculate how much fill and top-soil is required:rolleyes:

    get a minimum of 2 more guys ON-SITE to tender for this and then you can compare 3 quotes;)


  • #3
    ch750536
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    Yep, I did that. They varied by €4000. Have had 4 quotes, 2 silly expensive & 2 silly cheap. I don't have confidence in the silly cheap.
    So is there no way for a non building person to calculate how much pencil is needed to cover 160 sq m for example.


  • #4
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    ch750536 wrote: »
    Yep, I did that. They varied by €4000. Have had 4 quotes, 2 silly expensive & 2 silly cheap. I don't have confidence in the silly cheap.
    So is there no way for a non building person to calculate how much pencil is needed to cover 160 sq m for example.
    invite a civil engineer to site for an hour ( prior to the visit have the soil opened/ hole dug, preferably in a number of places, so that the conditions can be assessed)

    perhaps what you need to do is work out the proposed depth of drains/ how long they will take a JCB & driver, cost of fuel, then the amount/cost of the shale fill, then depth/amount/cost of the top soil + delivery & any access issues and the amount of days labour for say two men to rotavate, level the lawn, rake the stones, compact, sow the seed and compact again...


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