Raised bed 10x2 meters x 60 cm removal cost?

Hello,

in our small corner house with 300 m², we have a raised bed on the left side of the garden along the house with the dimensions 10 meters x 2 meters x 60 cm high. We would like to remove this to have more lawn. Does anyone have experience with how much something like this costs approximately? At the edge of the raised bed there is a path about 1 meter wide that runs along the house. The edge of the bed to the path is cemented and secured with stones.

So that means chipping off the stones, somehow removing and disposing of the bed (I estimate about 12 cubic meters).

What can something like this cost? The other end of the raised bed leads to the hedge and towards the fence boundary.

Hello fresh2

if you want to do it yourself:
A container with 7 m³ will cost you about 250 euros. including delivery and pickup. But you should be able to give away the good soil of a raised bed to self-collectors.
And the stones: 2 m³ container. maybe 150 euros. The rest is done in a weekend.

Steven

Here are some pictures. I don't think you can do this on the weekend with just a spade and no excavator or something.

Where is the hedge rooted? In the bed? Does it then need to be intercepted further back?

Unfortunately, I can't help you with costs, but would simply removing the flowers and putting grass on the bed be an option?

Sure, you can do that, but it still feels like wasted space somehow. That's why the idea is to make it flat. I would only want to remove it so that there is about 0.5 - 1 meter of bed left next to the hedge, and I would put a retaining wall in front of it. That's the idea.

Doing it yourself with a spade is definitely a huge effort. Maybe rent a mini excavator. Access to the garden is only about a meter wide.

I think we'll get a gardener to come and give us an estimate. If anyone here has ideas/experience, feel free to share.

Regardless of the fact that I consider a wider but elevated surface as more space than two narrower, differently high strips ;-) here is a number from us:

We had a dry stone wall quoted in spring. 20x20x60 cm granite, up to 60 cm high, 5.5 m long. Including frost protection gravel underneath, it was about €1,000 gross. New installation, so no demolition was necessary, and I can't say how much the disposal of only the topsoil with weeds for the partial area cost. I guess L-shaped stones should be cheaper, but we ultimately decided to create a mini-hill since after filling up the rest of the property there wasn't much height difference left. But you won't get around getting your own quotes. A lot was done in our garden – whether a landscaping company will do more because you have "so little" to do, you have to figure out yourself.