Garden Reinstatement and External Works After Your Extension
PremiumGarden reinstatement after a UK extension typically costs £2,000–6,000. Correct sequencing, DPC rules, patio costs, drainage, and how to manage landscapers.
Do this first:
You'll spend months watching diggers, skips, and delivery lorries churn through your garden. Then one day the builder finishes, the scaffolding comes down, and you look through your new bifold doors at a wasteland of compacted mud, broken fencing, and rubble. Welcome to the part of an extension project that nobody budgets for until they're staring at it.
Every extension does this. Diggers compact soil so hard that grass can't regrow naturally. Material storage kills whatever was growing underneath. Skip placement gouges the driveway. Drainage changes alter how water flows across your plot. And the builder's responsibility ended at the building line. Everything outside is your problem.
£2,000–6,000
The realistic budget for garden reinstatement after a typical rear extension. A quoted garden job at the low end will typically grow once you add driveway gravel, waste removal, equipment hire, and the drainage repairs you didn't know you needed.
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