Artificial Turf in back garden

Eldi_Dos

Have you thought about getting a lawn maintenance company in,can work out quite reasonable over the season and now is ideal time of year to start,it's surprising how quick they can improve a poor quality lawn, neighbour got company in two years ago its like a picture now and must have added value to the house which I doubt atrificial turf would.

Smithy99

It does get very hot in summer. Im glad our kids were older when we did it as I didn't realise,  I wouldn't do it with small kids or pets personally, but some people do have it with pets. 

twopenny

I wonder what treatment you gave the lawn to improve the grass.

Did you feed it and aerate it?

What's under the turf?

Mine was in a terrible state after 2yrs of moving in, tradesmen and me trampling it. Took me just 2 months to restore it to better than before. Boring but doable.

searchlight123

TELLIT01 said:

tonygold said:

our garden isn't large but is a curvy irregular shape so we had plenty of waste when having our artificial turf laid 4 years ago. roughly measuring 40' x 35', it took around 5-6 days to do with good quality realistically coloured turf and cost around £4.2k all in (we are in the SE).

it looks as good as the day it was laid and is fantastic. means the garden can be used by kids and dog all year round without trailing a load of mud in the house every time they go outside to play in wet weather. i realise it's not the most ecological solution but we do have a lot of bushes and plantings also to ease our conscience!!

One of the common arguments against artificial turf is that it can get very hot in summer.  Have you every had any problems like that?

Can honestly say we have never experienced it getting excessively hot for a toddler or dog to walk / play on. we face south east and do get sun in most parts of the garden till early evening. 

TELLIT01

tonygold said:

TELLIT01 said:

tonygold said:

our garden isn't large but is a curvy irregular shape so we had plenty of waste when having our artificial turf laid 4 years ago. roughly measuring 40' x 35', it took around 5-6 days to do with good quality realistically coloured turf and cost around £4.2k all in (we are in the SE).

it looks as good as the day it was laid and is fantastic. means the garden can be used by kids and dog all year round without trailing a load of mud in the house every time they go outside to play in wet weather. i realise it's not the most ecological solution but we do have a lot of bushes and plantings also to ease our conscience!!

One of the common arguments against artificial turf is that it can get very hot in summer.  Have you every had any problems like that?

Can honestly say we have never experienced it getting excessively hot for a toddler or dog to walk / play on. we face south east and do get sun in most parts of the garden till early evening. 

I have no personal experience of artificial turf but have seen comments about a potential problem.  It may well depend on the composition of the turf but maybe a question to ask of any potential supplier.