Send the garden brief
Size, how long it has been left, which jobs you want, how it is reached and what should happen to the green waste.
One-off garden reset · Dublin, Ireland
Get the garden under control.
Describe the garden once and, with your permission, we pass one clear brief to independent Dublin gardening businesses. It is a one-off reset enquiry—not a booking, contract or price.
- No cost to submit
- No recurring contract
- Clear data-sharing consent
Bagged, or taken away?
Green-waste removal is priced separately by volume.
A practical first step
Buy an outcome,
not an afternoon.
“How much for a gardener?” is an unanswerable question, so most Dublin homeowners get an unanswerable reply: an hourly rate, and a garden that may or may not be finished when the hours run out. A reset works the other way round. You describe the garden and the jobs you want done, and a gardener prices that specific outcome. Same garden, same list, comparable replies.
Simple by design
From an overgrown garden to a real quote.
We review the request
We check the brief is complete enough for a gardener to price, and that the work sits inside a reset. This is not an availability check.
Providers reply to you
With your permission, up to three independent Dublin gardening businesses may contact you about the work, a date and a price.
Ready when you are
Describe the garden once.
Free to submit. No contract. Clear consent before any sharing.
The comparable package
What a garden reset covers.
Quotes only become comparable when everyone is pricing the same list of jobs. This is the scope this page is built around—use it as the baseline you ask each gardener to price.
Grass, edges and weeds
Mowing ordinary grass where it can be reached safely, strimming and edging, and hand weeding of beds and hard surfaces.
Light hedge and shrub work
Light pruning of shrubs and hedge trimming from ground level, or from a small step platform where the gardener judges it safe.
Tidy-up and sweep-down
Loose green material generated by the work gathered up, and paths and patios swept before the gardener leaves.
Also worth agreeing in writing
- What happens to the green waste. Bagged and left on site, or removed and quoted by volume. Agree which before the work starts.
- How much time is allowed. A reset is an outcome, not an open-ended visit. Ask what the price assumes so a half-done garden is not a surprise.
- Who is attending, and when. Ask for the business name and an arrival window in writing.
- What happens if it rains. Wet ground changes what can be cut. Ask how a rescheduled date is handled.
- Before-and-after photos. Useful evidence for both sides that the agreed list was done.
Prices reviewed August 2026.
Advertised Dublin one-off tidy-ups generally started somewhere between €130 and €230 for a two- to four-hour visit, with overgrown gardens and waste removal quoted higher. Those are other companies’ published prices, not ours and not a quote. We deliberately publish no price of our own on this page, because a garden reset depends on condition, waste and access—and we are not the business doing the work. Ask any gardener for a written total that includes VAT and unavoidable charges before you agree anything.
Where a reset stops
What this is not.
A reset is deliberately narrow. The work below needs specialist training, insurance or equipment, and a general gardening visit is the wrong route to it. Telling us early costs you nothing; discovering it on the day costs you a wasted appointment.
- Tree work of any kind. Tree surgery, felling, stump grinding and chainsaw work. These need a specialist, not a reset.
- Work at height. High hedges needing access equipment, plus anything involving roofs, gutters or overhead power lines.
- Chemicals and invasive species. Weedkiller and pesticide application, and Japanese knotweed or other controlled species.
- Landscaping and construction. Design, paving, decking, fencing, drainage, turf laying and soil import or export.
- Non-green waste. Soil, rubble, household rubbish, chemicals, animal waste, sharps or anything hazardous.
- Gardens that cannot be worked safely. Where safe access cannot be established, or where cutting back would disturb an active nest or protected wildlife.
Before you agree anything
The details that move the price.
What changes the number
- How long it has been left. Grass height and bramble growth change a mow into a cutback. Twelve months untouched is a different job from three.
- Access and parking. Equipment arrives on a trolley or in a van. Steps, a narrow side passage, carrying through the house, or paid parking all add time.
- The amount of green waste. The single biggest swing factor. A large cutback can generate more waste than the tidying itself costs to do.
- Hedge length and height. Hedge work is priced separately from grass, and anything needing a platform or tower moves outside a reset entirely.
- Front, back, or both. Two gardens is two set-ups, even at one address.
- VAT and extras. Ask for the total including VAT, plus any parking, disposal or cancellation charges, before you agree anything.
What the gardener needs on the day
- Somewhere to park and get in. Confirm the access route and the narrowest gate or passage width. It decides which machinery can be used.
- A clear garden. Move toys, furniture, pots and anything fragile beforehand, and point out cables, ponds and irrigation lines.
- Pets kept inside. Strimmers and mowers throw debris. Most gardeners will ask for animals to be kept in while they work.
- Someone contactable. If the garden turns out materially different from the brief, the gardener needs to reach you before doing extra work.
Green waste is a separate decision
Waste is where garden quotes most often come apart, so treat it as its own line rather than an afterthought. Green material can be bagged neatly and left on site, or it can be taken away and priced by the volume actually removed. What it cannot be is “included” without a stated limit.
If waste is leaving your property, it is a commercial collection, and a household's civic-amenity entitlement does not apply to it. Ask the business who is collecting it and to confirm they hold a valid waste collection permit—MyWaste, Ireland's national waste guide, states that every waste collector must have one to operate legally. Soil, rubble, household rubbish, animal waste and hazardous material must never go into a green-waste load.
Who you would be contracting with
If you go ahead, your agreement is with the gardening business, not with GetAtticQuotes.com. That matters if something goes wrong: the CCPC states that where a business subcontracts work, your contract for the full service is still with the business you personally engaged. Get the scope, the price and the date in writing from whoever you hire.
Common questions
Straight answers.
How much does a one-off garden tidy-up cost in Dublin?
We reviewed publicly advertised Dublin prices in August 2026. One-off tidy-ups and clean-ups were generally advertised from around €130 to €230 for a two- to four-hour visit, with overgrown gardens and waste removal quoted higher, and garden-waste collection alone advertised from around €180 for a small truck volume. Those are other companies’ published prices, shown here for context only. They are not our prices, not a quote, and not a promise that any provider will offer them for your garden.
Why won’t you give me a price on this page?
Because we would be guessing. A garden reset depends on grass height, waste volume, hedge length and access, and we are not the business doing the work. A gardener prices it after seeing the brief and, usually, photos. Publishing a “from” price we cannot stand behind would be worse than publishing none.
Do you do the gardening yourselves?
No. We do not own equipment, employ gardeners or carry out garden work. We collect a clear brief and, with your permission, pass it to independent Dublin gardening businesses who do. If you go ahead, your contract is with that business, not with us.
What about the green waste?
Agree it explicitly and in writing. Waste can be bagged and left on site, or removed and priced by volume—there is no such thing as “all waste included” without a stated limit. If it is being taken away, ask the business to confirm it holds a valid waste collection permit: every waste collector in Ireland must have one to operate legally, according to MyWaste, the national waste guide. Soil, rubble, household rubbish and hazardous material cannot go into a green-waste load at all.
Is this a recurring maintenance contract?
No. This is a one-off reset to get an ordinary garden back to a manageable baseline. If you want fortnightly or monthly visits afterwards, that is a separate arrangement to agree directly with a provider.
My garden is completely overgrown. Is that still a reset?
Sometimes. Heavy brambles, self-seeded saplings and years of growth can cross into clearance or tree work, which sits outside this service. Describe it honestly in the notes—an accurate brief is more useful to you than an optimistic one, because it is what stops a gardener arriving for the wrong job.
Which areas does this cover?
Dublin city and county. If your garden is outside Dublin, say so in the notes—we will tell you if we cannot help rather than passing the enquiry on regardless.
Does sending the form book anything?
No. It is an enquiry, not a booking. It holds no date, confirms no availability, takes no payment and creates no contract. A gardener has to agree the work, the price and the date with you directly.
What happens to the details I send?
Your name, phone number and garden brief may be shared with up to three potentially suitable independent providers, only after you tick the consent box. You can ask us to stop further sharing at any time.
What we are—and what we’re not
Independent by design.
Attic is a human-assistant enquiry service for real-world jobs in Dublin. This page is the starting point for one-off residential garden resets.
We are not a gardening business. We do not own equipment, employ gardeners, carry out garden work, transport waste, set anyone's prices, confirm availability, take payment or form part of any agreement you later make. Our role is to turn your garden into one clear brief and, with your permission, put it in front of independent local providers.
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