Pin-seeker
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Especially when you've got 28 kids (like Rooter). No regular lawn can handle that.
Artificial Grass
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Especially when you've got 28 kids (like Rooter). No regular lawn can handle that.
Canary_Yellow
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The grass isn't too expensive. The cost adds up a bit from the aggregate and sand that has to go underneath to get it flat.
Rooter
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And almost £300 to hire a skip!!!
CliveW
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My livingroom carpet is bigger than that!!!
Bazz
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I had this done last month
Mine was 100sqm so a pretty decent size. As a few others have said, new build house, lawn laid over a load of rubble that builders left, dog doing his business, destroyed the lawn.
Love mine....and I paid the extra tenner for a golf hole
*i can't rotate the pic....
Mine was 100sqm so a pretty decent size. As a few others have said, new build house, lawn laid over a load of rubble that builders left, dog doing his business, destroyed the lawn.
Love mine....and I paid the extra tenner for a golf hole
*i can't rotate the pic....
Rooter
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So is mine? Welcome to commuter distance from London.
MizunoGreyhound
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We had our back lawn done about 10 years ago. Like yours, ours is a small area but we have no outside access to the rear of the house and SWMBO thought it was a great idea to have artificial turf. With the dog as well, it means we don't have a wrecked lawn or dead patches from bitches urine. It still looks fantastic now with very little maintenance. Best thing we have done to the house
We have a new build (well two years old) and we had the garden done professionally (raised beds, seating area etc) and they put the lawn down properly. It looks fantastic. Takes some work, but being small it doesn't take long to mow and to be honest artificial would detract from what we have achieved. The garden is HID's pride and joy and she's brilliant at gardening and would never have entertained the idea. Would have been great to work on the short game
Canary_Yellow
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Yes but it doesn't sound like you have pets or children? Those are what makes it very difficult to have a decent quality lawn.
I'd love a real lawn, I think they do look better than artificial, no doubt about it really, but it's very difficult to achieve with constant dog traffic over it in the winter!
woody69
Journeyman Pro
Because you put a post on an open forum talking about your new fake lawn and when someone asked what it cost you took it offline and went to private message. Just wondered why you felt those details (and an even more detailed note) couldn't be shared with everyone, when I would have thought many people may be interested in what it cost (and the additional details that come with it).
That's why.
Rooter
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Fair enough, I dont talk about money in a forum such as this. I would find it crude.
If you would like to know how much it costs, I would be happy to PM you, but that would be a private message. How much i actually spend on things is my business.
Canary_Yellow
Journeyman Pro
For what it's worth, Rooter, I'm with you on this.
woody69
Journeyman Pro
Well for what it's worth, I disagree. I have no problem if you spent, £5, £500, £5000 or £50,000 on it TBH. It's your money and you can spend it how you want. Telling people on here what you have done and how much it costs isn't crude, it's helpful. Means people that are thinking about it get a better idea of the costs involved. Someone may search on Google for "artificial grass cost" and this thread could pop up and help in their research.
I found it quite interesting when that guy came on here saying he'd spent around 11k to build his golf simulator. You don't need to be ashamed.
Just my 2 cents anyway.
Canary_Yellow
Journeyman Pro
It's irrelevant whether you have a problem with how much Rooter spent, as you say, it's Rooter's money to spend as he sees fit, it's also entirely up to him whether he wants to share that with the rest of the world.
Who said anything about being ashamed? It's entirely up to him whether he wants to disclose how much he spent.
I'd be keen to know how much it cost as well.
Liverbirdie
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Dos anyone have a freedom of information form?
We've got a large-ish garden and we finally got it lawned last year, it looks ok but not great, and its not our pride and joy.
We also have a sprightly 1 year old jack Russell who is a fitness fanatic and likes running shuttles, so have been thinking of getting 1/3rd of it done artificially, especially the corner bit where he sprints to incessantly, but keeping the other 2/3rds in better condition. maybe next years job.
I just need to find out how much it may cost..........
We've got a large-ish garden and we finally got it lawned last year, it looks ok but not great, and its not our pride and joy.
We also have a sprightly 1 year old jack Russell who is a fitness fanatic and likes running shuttles, so have been thinking of getting 1/3rd of it done artificially, especially the corner bit where he sprints to incessantly, but keeping the other 2/3rds in better condition. maybe next years job.
I just need to find out how much it may cost..........
woody69
Journeyman Pro
Yeah true no need to worry, Rooter can just respond individually to all the people interested in knowing the price via PM. If only there was a more efficient way....
Rooter
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Wow, now bored so here is the PM i sent to Midnight.
Hello mate, I weighed up doing it myself, but realised how much work it would have been...
Total cost was just shy of 1400 quid. When you weigh that up with shelling out
grass 400-500
weed matt 30
skip hire 300
wacker plate hire 30
sand 50
balast stone 75
wood edging 20
Just about a grand, so for 400 quid extra i saved my back and they did it in 6 hours! Would have taken me weeks!!
Not sure where you are, but i have a feeling u are local ish to me?? anyway, the guy is www.newlooklawns.co.uk and is based in reading. Very good service, he cracked a patio slab, so went straight off and bought 2 new ones (as the one next to it was cracked already) and replaced them! Proper service!
Guarantee on the grass is 10 years.
Good luck!
Hello mate, I weighed up doing it myself, but realised how much work it would have been...
Total cost was just shy of 1400 quid. When you weigh that up with shelling out
grass 400-500
weed matt 30
skip hire 300
wacker plate hire 30
sand 50
balast stone 75
wood edging 20
Just about a grand, so for 400 quid extra i saved my back and they did it in 6 hours! Would have taken me weeks!!
Not sure where you are, but i have a feeling u are local ish to me?? anyway, the guy is www.newlooklawns.co.uk and is based in reading. Very good service, he cracked a patio slab, so went straight off and bought 2 new ones (as the one next to it was cracked already) and replaced them! Proper service!
Guarantee on the grass is 10 years.
Good luck!
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c1973
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Rooter
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Nothing worse than someone going on about how much cash they have or have spent!
You owe me one laptop screen wipe! Mine now has half a mouthful of coffee on it!
