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I'd see how the paving is laid first - if it's laid on sand/ash then it might come up with no more than a bit of jimmying, it could be anything from a couple of inches of sand/ash to remove to several inches of hardcore underneath. I'd probably start with lifting one slab and seeing what it looks like.
My parents took up slabs and had roughly 8cm of ash/sand mix under their garden. But when my dad put the new patio in he laid it on 10cm of hardcore
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The place we just moved in to has a small garden. It's currently all paved over. I'd like to dig up all the paving, add a new small patio for table a chairs, add some flower beds, a pathway and astroturf about 2 thirds of it for the wee man to play on.
Where / how do I start?
Buy a pneumatic drill to dig up rocks, then panic when I have no idea what to do next? Pay someone to dig it all up then someone else to make it look like a pretty garden? Call a landscape gardener to do the whole thing? I have no idea what plants and stuff I'd like yet. Ideally I'd just like some flower beds to actually exist so we can have a go at gardening, rather than getting someone in to do everything.
An idiot's guide to gardening tells me I like 'woodland' gardens. I don't know if 'woodland' is a bit ambitions for a space that's 3 metres wide by 8 metres long (ish).
Any tips on where to start or people to contact greatly appreciated.