I'm not thinking of selling any time soon, so I can't help feeling I'm worried about nothing, but I'd hate to splash out on my idea and then some estate agent tells me in 5 years time that if I'd left it as it was, he could get me another x grand.
Why not ring one of the local estate agents and ask their opinion. You hope to be a prospective client in a few years time and would value their advice.
I've just spent more time I cared for wrestling with my garden, and the worst part is that I'll have to do it all again in 2-3 weeks, so I'm considering saying sod it and just paving over the whole thing. My idea is to keep a raised area at the side (say 10x4) where I can plant lo-maint trees and shrubs and stuff and then jsut fill the rest of the garden with paving stones. But I'm worried that it would devalue my house. It's a small 2.5 bed, so I reckon any future buyers would be young families who would want a garden. I'm not thinking of selling any time soon, so I can't help feeling I'm worried about nothing, but I'd hate to splash out on my idea and then some estate agent tells me in 5 years time that if I'd left it as it was, he could get me another x grand.
Hi billy-bob,
If you are worried about the permanent nature of paving, you could think about putting down gravel, so the garden can be resurrected in future.
Don't take off the topsoil, put down plastic, and then pea gravel.
You can spend alot or a little.
Buy the materials in a garden centre and pay someone to do it and you will spend loads.
If you are rural, a farmer will be delighted to give you old or damaged silage cover ( don't worry about smell, it will be gone ), alternatively ask for some radon barrier or any other heavy duty plastic that is leftover on building sites - using big sheets is easier to put down and easier to take up than rolls of Weedblock.
Buy your gravel by the ton cheaper than bags, and spread it on the cover. Once you've finished puncture the cover in places to take away water.
I don't know if you are talking about front or back. If it is the back you may have to barrow the gravel. Put down lenghts of wood to run the wheel on.
Sorry if I am stating too much of the obvious here, don't know how handy you are. If you are not, and this sounds like alot of work, it is actually not too hard. Two girleens did my garden, front and back - one of them filled every ounce of eight tons of gravel into a barrow and the other wheeled it to the back and spread it. They had a very shiny barrow, sore backs and a lovely garden when they were finished!!!!
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