Artificial Grass Installation Guide...
Artificial grass installation advice and help...
We can offer a full installation service for your artificial lawn. For full details please feel free to call us or drop us an email.
Alternatively if you feel confident and strong enough, here is a simple 5 step D.I.Y. guide to installing your artificial lawn.
Before the artificial grass was installed...
Step 1) Lift the old lawn
This can be done manually or you can hire a turf lifter for the day (very easy to use), they can make the job much easier and remove the old turf to a constant level.
Step 2) Install edging
Unless you are going to put down a wooden frame to attach the grass to, we generally find that it’s always better to have a hard edge for the grass to butt-up to. It can be brick, cobbles, timber or just simply the fence or shed. All these methods will make your artificial lawn look more realistic.
Step 3) Weed control
Once the edge is in, we lay our landscape material (mypex) in strips making sure its overlapping. We then cut it to shape and nail it down. Other companies tend to put this on top of the base but we find it can move whilst you are getting your grass into place and cause unsightly bumps.
Step 4) Prepare sub-base/base
Depending on the purpose of the lawn and the drainage will decide whether a sub-base is required. If you do have poor drainage and get puddles on your lawn or, if you are going to have a lot of traffic over your new artificial lawn, we suggest putting in a sub-base of type 1 (available from most garden centres or builders yards) to the depth of 2 inches.
Once this is roughly level and compacted we use granite dust again to the depth of 2 inches because we find this bonds together better than sand (if you can not find this sharp sand will do). Simply level and compact. How much time you dedicate to this will affect how good the artificial grass will look at the end, so take your time!
Step 5) Fitting your perfect grass
We use roof-fitting Stanley knife blades (you will need a few because they are easily blunted) and a bolster chisel. Simply roll out your new perfect grass and get it into position.
Then use the bolster chisel to push it into the edges and then cut carefully. Joins can be tricky, firstly cut 2 nice straight lines along the seams of the 2 grasses you wish to join, and then lay the joining tape under both pieces and make sure there are no gaps.
Then simply add glue to the joining tape and gently start from one end butting it together, down the length of the join. Then cut the grass to shape as before.
After the artificial grass was installed...
