Seven Hills blocks are generous, and a lot of them now carry a house two or three times the size of the one it replaced. There is still real yard left, but it is a different shape, and it needs rebuilding around the new footprint.
Seven Hills sits about 33 kilometres north-west of the city at around 45 metres, split between Blacktown City and the City of Parramatta. Its mid-century homes of roughly 100 square metres sat on blocks of 600 to 900, and since the 2000s many have been replaced by two-storey houses with two to three times the floor space.
The block is the same size but the house is not. What is left is usually a shorter rear yard, wider side setbacks and a front that has to work harder. Most of our Seven Hills jobs are designing for that new shape rather than restoring what used to be there.
A rebuild compacts the ground around it, buries offcuts and changes the levels where machinery and scaffolding stood. None of that shows on the surface, and all of it affects whether turf and planting take.
Unlike the newer estates further out, these blocks leave genuine space after the house. There is room for a real lawn, a proper entertaining area and planting with some scale to it, which is worth taking advantage of.
Most jobs here are a full yard build after a rebuild, or a rework of an older garden around a new extension.
New lawn over ground that has been decompacted, graded and prepared. Around a rebuild the soil has been driven over for months, and opening it up again is what lets the lawn root properly.
How we lay new turfAlfresco areas, paths and driveway edges paved to a level, free-draining finish. Where a slab or scaffolding sat, the base needs rebuilding or the paving will settle unevenly.
How we approach pavingWalls to hold a change of level and recover flat yard, including where a rebuild has left the ground stepping awkwardly against a boundary or a new slab.
How we build retaining wallsBoundary screens and front hedges cut to a clean line. After a two-storey rebuild, screening matters more than it did, because the neighbours now overlook more of the yard.
How we trim hedgesMulch at a depth that suppresses weeds and holds moisture on an exposed block, which most of these are until new planting establishes.
More on mulchingLifting canopies off a new roofline and gutters, and reducing what survived the build to suit the garden's new shape.
See our pruning and trimmingBeds, paving joints and gravel cleared back to a clean finish, roots included. Disturbed ground around a build grows weeds quickly and clearing before planting saves repeating it.
More on weedingConstruction leftovers, broken concrete, excess fill, old paving and green waste taken away. Clearing after a rebuild is usually more than one load and we size it in the quote.
See our rubbish removalRemoving a tree damaged during a build or now too close to a new structure. Where approval is needed we confirm which council applies to your address before quoting.
About our tree lopping workWhat the build left behind, and how much of the block is still yard.
Three steps, a fixed written price, and the block left clean.
Call or send photos. If builders are still on site, say so, because we stage the work around them so nothing we lay gets driven over.
We check the ground, the levels, what the yard now looks like and the access, then put a fixed written price and a staged plan in front of you.
One crew from start to finish, all construction leftovers and green waste removed, and the driveway and paths swept down.
Terry and his team are fantastic to work with.
The team have been very professional with their work, communication and they were also fast paced.
They use very high quality materials and workmanship is flawless.
Seven Hills sits in Blacktown City with Toongabbie, Winston Hills, Kings Langley, Greystanes and Blacktown nearby.
For upkeep rather than a build, see everything we do across the Blacktown council area, or browse every Sydney suburb we service.
With what is under it. Months of machinery and storage leave the ground compacted, with offcuts buried and levels pushed around. We open a test hole, work out what has to be fixed, and build from there rather than laying turf over the problem.
Yes, and usually better than people expect once it is designed for its new shape rather than treated as a shrunken version of the old one. A shorter wider yard suits a different layout, and there is still real space here compared with the newer estates.
Partly, and it needs to be planted for the height involved. Screening for a two-storey outlook is a different specification to a fence-line hedge, and we will tell you honestly what it can and cannot achieve.
Often, after a rebuild. The ground frequently ends up stepping awkwardly against a boundary or a new slab. Sometimes it can be graded out instead, and we will tell you which applies.
Yes, staged around them. We would not lay paving or turf that is going to be driven over, so we sequence the work to what the site allows.
Yes. We work across Seven Hills 2147 and the surrounding suburbs including Toongabbie, Winston Hills, Kings Langley, Lalor Park, Girraween and Blacktown.
Send us the basics and we will come out, check the ground, the levels and the shape of the yard, then give you a fixed written price. The visit costs nothing.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0451 267 287.
Whether the builders have just left or you have been living with bare ground since, we will come out and price the build properly.