This is another one of those nebulous “how much would it cost” threads, I’m afraid.
Our situation is that we’ve lived here since 1976. Typical suburban lot with, IIRC, 80 feet of frontage and the house is set back maybe 50 feet from the road, for about 4000 sq ft of “front yard”, without subtracting the 16-foot-wide driveway. There’s some fairly standard plantings near the house and a large maple at one side of the yard.
Last year they rebuilt the road and tore up the lawn near the street. They resodded, and now it looks better than the rest of the yard. (Especially since they also tore up part of the rest of the lawn installing a storm drain connection.) In addition, the area over the original water/sewer connection has slowly subsided over the years (was never quite level to begin with) and so fill is needed there, plus several bare patches have developed.
This just give you a general feel for the condition of the yard. What I’d like to have done is for a landscaping company to come in, till up the bare patches, add soil in the low spots, reseed/resod as needed, and generally spruce up the yard. I’m not talking about completely replacing plantings or anything like that — nothing fancy.
So I’m wondering — ballpark figures — how much money I’m talking about. $1000? $10,000? I realize that labor costs vary widely, but give me a number for where you are and tell me where that is, and I can probably apply a reasonable windage factor.
Anyone had a job done (or done a job for pay) that’s an all comparable to this? What did you pay?
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I have no idea how much it would cost. But I myself would kill off the old grass with roundup. Then rent a machine that seeds and dethatches the yard. Water untill it's not necessary anymore.
I think that would be pretty reasonable for a lawn service to do, just get estimates like any other job.
If you like the sod, keep it and seed the rest of the yard with the same species of grass. If you use two competing varieties, you'll be sorry.
If I were younger and healtier I'd do it myself. But with this shoulder I know I can no longer handle a tiller, and probably not a power rake.
Around here, south Florida, I could get a days work refurbishing my lawn for about $1,000.00 including most of the sod, top coating and mulch.
Thanks -- that's one "bookend". One or two more and I've have a feel for it.