Tell the people in the house behind they are welcome to pay to have them removed, if you don’t want the trees and they want the light then let them pay!tbh the price seems ok to put into perspective i have 2 conifers a shade under 60foot right at the bottom of my garden so well away from the house been there since we moved in i think they were about 10/15 feet high 30 odd years ago. used to be on our boundary with the field (now replaced by a housing estate...) we just had a quote of just under 3grand to cut them down to i consider stump lvl. but not to cart away. as i was thinking of doing it to appease the house owners who now back onto the property and have started moaning about no light.....
to be honest at that price the next owner can do it
or ill buy them torches
Backk to the OP I’d just put that the work involved in cutting it all up and getting rid is very easy to underestimate, tree’s somehow look a lot bigger when you’ve chopped them down!
Final aside this is why I’d ban the sale and planting of fast growing conifer tree’s to residential areas. They grow to quickly, get massively out of hand and are a total pin to re-shape/cut back as once they are brown they stay brown. I’d encourage anyone wanting a hedge to go with something more traditional like pricey that can be easily maintained and reshaped etc.
