Almost all of it comes down to one thing: how much material has to leave the property, and how hard it is to get it out.
Garden clearance is priced on volume and access rather than on floor area. Two gardens of identical size can differ enormously if one is knee-high grass and the other is ten years of bramble and self-seeded sycamore.
We do not publish fixed prices for this work, because the honest answer is that it varies more than a price list would suggest. What we can do is explain exactly what moves the number, so that when you call for a free quotation you already know what we will be asking about.
This is the factor that dominates. Disposal is charged by weight or volume at the tip, so the amount of material leaving your garden is a direct and unavoidable cost. Dense woody growth weighs far more than soft leafy material of the same apparent size.
| What is there | Relative effort |
|---|---|
| Long grass and weeds | Lightest — quick to cut and low volume |
| Overgrown shrubs and borders | Moderate; more material than it looks |
| Established brambles | Slow, physical work with high volume |
| Ivy, extensively established | Slow — it grips everything it grows over |
| Self-seeded saplings | Effectively small tree work |
| Mixed garden debris and rubbish | Depends entirely on what it is |
| Non-green waste (rubble, old furniture) | Different disposal route and cost |
Overgrown gardens hide things. Paths, patios, ponds, manhole covers, old fencing, and quite often a substantial amount of buried rubbish. None of it is visible at the quotation stage, which is why a good clearance quote covers the described work and flags what happens if something significant turns up.
Tell us what you need and we will arrange a free quotation.
Photographs help but consistently understate an overgrown garden — depth and density do not photograph well. For anything substantial, a visit gives you a firmer price and avoids the conversation where the job turns out to be twice what the pictures suggested.
It is priced on the volume of waste and the access rather than on floor area. Two gardens of the same size can differ enormously depending on what is growing in them.
Because disposal is charged by weight or volume, so the amount of material leaving the property is a direct and unavoidable cost.
Considerably. If every barrow load has to go through the house rather than out of a side gate, the clearance can take twice as long.
Cutting back and tidying leaves root systems in place. Clearing to ground level removes everything above ground. Removing roots and stumps is a further stage again, and is needed before turfing.
Yes — clear selectively rather than completely, keep compostable or chippable material on site if you have room, improve access, and combine the clearance with the next job.
Ordinary clearance is the wrong approach. Japanese knotweed spreads when cut and moved, disposal is legally controlled, and it needs a specialist treatment programme.
Green waste removal is normally part of the job. Non-green waste such as rubble or old furniture is agreed separately because it has a different disposal route.
For anything substantial, yes. Photographs consistently understate how dense an overgrown garden is.
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