Costs of garden landscaping and outdoor facilities at a single-family house on a slope

Had the Gala 4 months ago. If I estimate your dimensions considering our prices (everything smaller and less with us): 120-150k. Definitely get 3 quotes, with us there were huge differences and the now mentioned 190k will not stay at 190k - for sure! GD

Maybe there are also concrete experiences from other/similar outdoor areas on a slope?

We, as people from flatlands, also bought a sloping property and approached the matter somewhat carelessly. "Similar" with a slope is a very, very flexible term. The steeper it is, the more individual it is. The prices for earthworks and outdoor work also surprised us quite a bit - our own fault, we could have informed ourselves better. Now I don’t know your slope. We have an elevation difference of 11m to the street (below). The access path with slope retention (path gravelled, slope retained with natural stone) was somewhere just above 100k. The total costs were significantly higher because we got a few additional services - here and there a few meters of natural stone wall, infiltration trench, fence, natural stone steps... and we did not invoice the items separately. The offer price seems "very steep" to me with the available information and with regard to the slope lift (I discarded the project because we can drive up to the top) at first plausible.

Wiltshire you have left a lot of natural areas untouched, we have done the same. If we had landscaped everything including the steep slope, stairs, etc., we probably would have exceeded 200.

Wiltshire you have left a lot natural just as we did. If we had landscaped everything including the steep slope, stairs, etc., we probably would have broken 200.

Yes, the costs do not include a budget for terracing or for creating a garden, nor the price for even one of the terraces. To design the non-wooded part according to "Insta" standards, the cost on our property would probably start with a 4. I'm quite glad that neither of us wants that. Here and there we clear a few square meters for trees and shrubs that we plant, raised beds, terraces or seating areas, a greenhouse, hot tub, trailer, chicken coop, dog run—whatever comes to mind—and we enjoy the general wilderness, the pleasant microclimate it creates, and the privacy it offers.

We did that too. Wilderness. A 42-degree incline alone doesn’t make you want to do it. Back when the church path still went somehow over the slope, great-grandpa or great-great-grandpa planted an apple tree, which can no longer be cared for or you have to tie yourself to it. The apples are so delicious though

Now I can guess why the house was sold.

That definitely played a role! We also approached the matter too naively – if we had known about the costs for the still missing outdoor facilities in this scale, we might have been able to negotiate the purchase price even better.

I would also say rather 190k than 100k, looking at our costs

Thank you for sharing your experience! What exactly did you have done and how were your experiences with the prices? Did you also get several quotes?

Had the landscaper here 4 months ago. If I roughly estimate your dimensions based on our prices (everything here is smaller and less): 120-150k. Definitely get 3 offers, there were worlds of difference here and the now mentioned 190k will surely not remain at 190k – for sure! GD

Thanks also to you for your concrete experiences! Getting "3 offers" is not that easy – we’ve already had several companies from the region visit for inspection. All say they will get back to us. After that, you never hear anything again or you get ghosted. Apparently, there is still too much demand among the landscaping companies for other (simpler) projects than this story here on the slope.

We also bought a hillside plot as flatlanders and approached the matter rather carelessly. "Similar" on a slope is a very, very elastic term. The steeper it is, the more individual it gets. The prices for earthworks and outdoor work also surprised us quite a bit – our own fault, we could have informed ourselves better. Now I don’t know your slope. We have an elevation difference of 11m to the street (below). The access path with slope retention (graveled path, slope retained with natural stone) was just above 100k. The total costs were significantly higher because we had a few additional services – here and there a few meters of natural stone wall, infiltration trench, fence, natural stone stairs... and didn’t account for the items separately. The offer price seems "very steep" to me with the information available and referring to the slope lift (I then discarded the project because we can drive all the way up).

Starting from the street, we have a first slope with about 5m elevation difference to the door/basement level. This one luckily no longer needs to be retained; only the also existing stairs are to be renewed. Then behind the house we have a second embankment with about 3m elevation difference to the garden level. So it is already quite logistically complex, so that conveyor belts and/or a truck crane will have to be relied on.