Back garden concrete removal

AshJack

Hi
Wondering if anyone has any advice on paving a back garden.  It’s currently got 3 trees (Christmas tree type), part gravel and part concrete which would need to be covered/removed.  Dimensions are approx 72msq.

Looking to have a fence put up and paving around the edges with space clear for artificial grass.

 I’m weary of being quoted stupid amounts because we live in london.  (Quotes have ranged from £11k to £25k). This is with them admitting it’ll take less than two day’s to prep the back for paving. 

Has anyone approached this in a different way? Debating to get some labourers in to remove to prep the garden but don’t know how to go about it.  

markin

You could do most of it yourself, starting with buying a chipper for the trees, a wheelbarrow to fill the skips, and renting a jack hammer.

tacpot12

Do you know how the work should be done, and do you have the experience of managing labourers, and safety on a building site? If not, I would say it would be too risky for you to self-manage this. 
At least with a commercial firm doing the work you have some comeback on them, and you won't be liable if you do something (or don't do something) that ends up injuring one of the workers.
 
It is worth having a good read of the advice on www.pavingexpert.com, at least then you will know more about how the work should be done. You still might need to research how ground needs to be prepared for artificial turf. I bought some "Campion 30" Artificial Grass for our back garden from https://www.grass247.co.uk  It is impressively realistic.

If you want to go ahead and hire labourers, you might call up a few temp agencies that specialist in supplying construction labour, and see if they can supply you with labourers while avoiding you becoming liable to pay their tax. I suspect they will all say that the employer needs to have some insurance that will cover the laborers.