New Lawn From Old

In our back garden we have what used to be a lawn but, for various reasons, the grass has "worn" away mainly due to foot traffic where I have been doing some other work. This has left hard compacted muddy soil complete with the roots of the old lawn. It's also quite stony and I have been trying to dig it with a view to disposing of the remnants of the old turf, levelling it and putting down top soil(circa depth 5 - 10 mm) and then either seeding it or putting turf down.

It's quite hard going and, with winter fast approaching, I'm wondering whether to concede and hand over to a contractor.

The maximum area for grassing is about 9-10 square metres. Is anyone able to suggest what a realistic cost MIGHT be for it to be done professionally?

Many thanks

 

Mike, my front lawn was very patchy so we decided to use GreenThumbs for a lawn makeover. All the details are on the site. They glypho the lawn, then rotovate it layer of top soil and then reseed.
This is a photo of the lawn one month later July 2020. They come back 3 or 4 times to inspect the lawn and do a patch reseed after 2 weeks. You need to water it twice a day until its established.
Now reseed versus turf the jury is still out on that one. Greenthumb are not the cheapest but I was very impressed with their work, and it is only a small lawn. Shopping around you may get a better price, it's hard work doing it yourself.
Details are on the Greenthumb site of the makeover package.

Photos before and after 1 month ( and a big splodge of money!)

 

@HarryS it would be wise to blot out your car registration plates when using images on the web.

 

I normally would do Sheal, but I sold the Mitsubishi last year. Thanks anyway

 

So all those people that were going to turn up on your doorstep are now headed to someone else's @HarryS.

 

Yes some poor bloke in Birmingham