What will my
backyard cost?
Answer what you can and you'll get a realistic range, worked out on the same rate card we price real jobs from. Rough numbers are fine, and it takes about a minute.
This runs on our own quoting software. Not a generic calculator, and not a guess: it's the same system we build every Edge quote in, reading the same rates, so the number you get here is worked out the way a real one would be.
Those rates come from our own jobs. Where we've measured a job end to end, the hours the crew actually recorded go back into the rate card, which is how we know a square metre of hand-cut stone takes about four hours to lay and not the two most people allow for it. You get the benefit of that here, before anyone has been out.
What we've priced
On top of that, the figure includes getting set up, protecting what stays, and carting the rubbish away. That part is worth knowing about: on a small job it is most of the price, and it doesn't shrink just because the area does. It's the most common reason a quote comes back higher than someone expected.
What it does not include is anything we can't see from here: drainage, retaining that turns out to be structural, rock, buried concrete, or a permit. Those get priced once they're known, not guessed at now.
Why it's a range
Three things change this number once someone is standing in your garden, and none of them can be answered from a form: what the levels do, what's under the surface, and whether anything has to be built to hold ground up. A fall across the site, a buried slab, or a wall that needs engineering can each move a job by thousands.
What's behind the figure is our own quoting software and our own job history, rather than a rule of thumb. It's as close as anyone can get to a real price without standing in your garden.
We don't publish a line-by-line price off a form, because an itemised number against a garden nobody has measured is a made-up number dressed up as a real one. You get the itemised version with a proper quote, after the measure-up.
If you need more than a price
For most gardens the order is measure-up, then design, then construction. Plenty of jobs aren't ready to be quoted yet, because what's being built hasn't been decided, and a price against an undecided job is a guess. If you know roughly what you want but not how it should work, design is the stage in between.
That's a site visit, a measure-up and levels, a sit-down about how you actually want to use the space, and a concept plan covering layout, materials and planting, through to setout and construction detail. Two rounds of revisions, so it ends up being yours rather than ours.
It's priced once we've seen the place, because quoting design off a form is the same guesswork we're trying to get you out of. If you go ahead and build it with us, half the design fee is credited back against the build. So the design isn't a separate expense sitting on top of the job, it's most of the way to being part of it.
And if you'd rather just see what it would look like before deciding anything, ask about a concept visual: a single drawing of your garden as it would be built, done from your own photos.
This is a ballpark estimate generated from approximate quantities you enter yourself. It is not a quote, not an offer, and Edge Landscapes cannot be held to it. Prices for real work are fixed after a site visit and measure-up.
Find out what
it actually costs.
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