Start of outdoor facilities

Hello,

I would like to start preparing the essentials around the house as early as possible.
The plan is:

- Create driveway with gravel
- Double carport
- Terrace and cold conservatory (5x3.5m)
- Path to the front door
- Splash guard
- Apply topsoil / sow grass seed or lay rolled turf

The plot is relatively flat, and the soil is very sandy.

However, I have no idea when to start with what, and in which order?
Construction start is in June, scheduled handover in December.

When did you do what? What can possibly be done alongside as hourly work during the construction to save costs?

I have attached a plan of how it could roughly look.

Best regards,
Daniel

you are now dealing with the garden design with construction start in June completion in December.... ? Realistically, you can start in spring 2017

And do the cars absolutely have to stand in the dirt during winter? What speaks against it?

Besides, you can't really do anything because you would disturb the other trades and the construction might even be delayed.

Theoretically, you can only start after the house handover, because before that, dirt and mess occur, which is usually only cleared away by the builder during the final cleaning after completion.

Carport etc. I would put at the very end...

Terrace and house entrance are the most important... then of course the eaves strip and paths, and only then does it go towards lawn and parking spaces...

When did you do what? What can possibly already be done alongside the construction during supervisory work to save costs?

You will hardly be able to do anything in the driveway and in front of the house before completion. The arriving craftsmen would just drive over it and damage it again, or you won’t have construction clearance.

With some distance, you can start gardening behind the house as soon as the shell is finished or at least the earthworks are completed.

After the facade is finished, in my opinion, you can immediately create (or have created) the splash protection strip and also the terrace.

Driveway and access path? I’m not sure, as late as possible so that you have construction clearance and don’t have everything driven over and damaged again right away.

I would only do the terrace after one winter. Especially if it was built with a basement. Depending on how compacted it was, it will settle.