Garden clearance
Garden clearance across the Wirral.
A clearance is the job that makes maintenance possible. Cutting the top off an overgrown garden looks transformative for about six weeks; taking the roots out is what actually changes it.
Priced after photos or a visit, not over the phone.
What is included in a garden visit
- Woody growth, brambles and ivy cut down and sorted as we go
- Roots and crowns dug out rather than cut off
- What is underneath uncovered and reported
- Everything carried out to the van
- Green waste taken away, or bagged if you prefer
- The ground left rakeable rather than merely emptied
What is involved
What garden clearing actually involves.
It runs in a fixed order, because doing it in any other order means handling the same material twice.
We cover the whole of the Wirral for this, including Wallasey, Birkenhead and Bebington. Tell us your postcode and we will confirm the detail for your street.
01
Cut and stack
Brambles, ivy and woody growth cut down and stacked on sheets, sorted as we go into what can be bagged and what has to go loose. Sorting at the end is how a day becomes a day and a half.
02
Roots and regrowth
Bramble crowns, ivy roots and nettle rhizomes dug out rather than cut off. Anything left in the ground is back by the following spring, which is why a cheap clearance is rarely cheap twice.
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What is underneath
Overgrown gardens hide things: paths, manholes, broken glass, old fence bases and occasionally a pond. We work carefully and tell you what turns up rather than covering it back over.
How far gone
What each state of garden actually takes.
Clearance is priced on what has to come out and how it gets to the van, not on the size of the plot. These are the four states we usually find.
| State | What is in it | Work | Waste | Watch for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behind, not wild | Long grass, overgrown borders | Half a day | A few bags | Often just a big maintenance visit | |
| Waist high | Brambles starting, self seeded shrubs | A day | A van load | Roots must come out or it returns | |
| Head high | Established bramble, ivy, saplings | Two days or more | Several loads | Hidden paths, glass and manholes | |
| Years untouched | Sycamore and buddleia into the walls | Priced on a visit only | Several loads | Structural damage under the growth | |
| Any of the above | With no side gate | Add a half to the labour | Bagged, carried through | Access decides this job more than size |
Priced after photos or a visit. No obligation.
On the day
How a clearance actually runs.
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Walk it with you
What stays and what goes, agreed before anything is cut. A shrub somebody planted deliberately looks identical to a self seeded one once it is on the pile.
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Sheets down, cut high first
The top growth comes off first and is sorted onto sheets as it is cut, into what bags and what goes loose. Sorting afterwards turns a day into a day and a half.
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Roots out
Bramble crowns, ivy roots and nettle rhizomes dug out rather than cut off. This is the part that decides whether the garden is clear next spring or merely shaved.
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Find what is underneath
Paths, edging, manholes, broken glass and old fence bases all turn up. We work carefully and tell you what is there rather than covering it back over.
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Carry out and rake off
Everything to the van, then the ground raked so it is left workable rather than merely emptied.
Why roots decide it
A garden cut back but not cleared is back in six weeks.
Bramble, ivy, nettle and bindweed all regenerate from what is left in the ground. Strim the top off a bramble thicket and the garden looks completely different that afternoon; by the following May the same thicket is back, because a bramble crown is a woody root the size of a fist and it was never touched.
That is the difference between a clearance and a cut down, and it is most of the difference in price between two prices for what sounds like the same job. Digging crowns and ivy roots out is slow, unglamorous work, and it is the only part that actually changes the garden.
There is one thing we stop for. If we find Japanese knotweed we down tools and tell you. Cutting it spreads it, moving the soil is legally controlled, and it is a specialist job. We would rather lose the work than turn a contained problem into a spread one and hand you the consequences.
Get in touch
Get a price today.
Two ways to start, whichever suits you. Both reach the same person.
- Send us photos on WhatsApp Two from the back door, plus your postcode. Open WhatsApp
- Call 07359 877410 Monday to Friday 8 to 6, Saturday 8 to 2. Call now
What happens next
- You send photos or call
- We reply within one working day with a price
- You pick a day and we agree access
- We do the work and take the green waste
Good questions
Garden clearance questions.
A clearance resets a garden. Keeping it there is a maintenance round, and a bare patch left behind is usually turfed. Lawn mowing and edging, Hedge cutting, Regular garden maintenance.
How long does a clearance take?
A garden that is merely behind is half a day. Waist high is usually a day, head high is two or more. The honest answer for anything that has been untouched for years is that we come and look, because guessing at that from photos is how people get let down.
Do you take everything away?
Yes, unless you would rather keep some of it. Green waste removal is licensed disposal and it is priced in. Leaving it bagged for your own green bin costs less and we will tell you roughly how many bags to expect.
Does access really change the price?
More than anything else does. Everything cut has to be carried out. A side gate makes that straightforward; carrying bramble through a kitchen or down a shared entry roughly adds half again to the labour, so it is worth telling us up front.
Will the brambles come back?
Not if the crowns come out, which is what we do. If they are only cut off at ground level they are back within a season. That is the single biggest difference between clearance jobs that hold and ones that do not.
What if you find something under it all?
We tell you. Overgrown gardens routinely hide paths, edging, manhole covers, broken glass, old fence bases and sometimes a filled in pond. Occasionally the growth is what is holding a rotten fence up, and you should know that before it comes off.
What about Japanese knotweed?
If we find it we stop and tell you rather than cutting it. It spreads from fragments, moving contaminated soil carries legal duties, and it wants a specialist with a treatment plan. Cutting through it is how a contained stand becomes a garden wide one.
Can you clear it and then maintain it?
That is the usual arrangement and it is the sensible one. The clearance is the one off that makes a garden maintainable, and the round afterwards is what stops you needing another clearance in three years.
Do you remove sheds, fencing or rubble?
Green waste yes. Timber, rubble, old furniture and general household waste is different waste with different disposal rules, so it is priced separately and sometimes it wants a skip rather than our van.
04 / Local to you
Garden clearance, town by town.
Each one sets out what the housing there is like and what that means for this job.
Get in touch
Tell us about the garden and we will price it.
Rough size, what is in it, and how often you want it seen to. Two photos from the back door get you a firmer number than anything you can type.