Artificial grass - Opinions

Tygermoth · 4 March 2018 at 10:05AM

So while looking at the design trends thread i was surprised to see how many people were very very anti fake grass.

I am currently saving up to do over our garden and after a year wrestling with the grass (we have a tree that drys out one end of the garden (under a tpo) and a marshy area at the other with sun being scant on one side - keeping the grass nice was almost impossible - even with a lawn treatment company coming in every few weeks.

So I had my heart set on some fake turf (the best quality we could afford so its not greengrocer grass!) but seeing how many of you were very veheminant against it got me wondering if i'll be making a mistake.

Would artificial turf put you off a House? (it will be landscaped into the garden - so not a weirdly perfect square of green)

AdrianC · 4 March 2018 at 10:11AM

How big an area are we talking about?

Doozergirl · 4 March 2018 at 10:11AM

If you want it, have it. First and foremost we live in our own houses and doing them for future buyers and trying to please all of them is pointless and just ends in compromise.

I like it, I think some of them look great and I have no intention of mowing grass again when we move house. We will have it. We've just bought Easy Lawn in Rosemary for a very small garden in London. I haven't seen it down in person yet, but my husband is pleased. I liked the colour as it has 'dead' bits in it so it's not too perfectly green.

I have seen not very nice artificial grass in a huge back garden with nothing else in it and that looked very strange. But you're not doing that, so go for it

MobileSaver · 4 March 2018 at 10:13AM

Tygermoth wrote: »

Would artificial turf put you off a House?

Absolutely, yes! I'd probably disregard the house entirely but if everything else was absolutely perfect and there was nothing else close then I'd simply reduce my offer by all the costs needed to take the lawn back to nature including an extra sizeable amount for the time and hassle of doing so.

Ultimately it's your home so you should do whatever makes you happy but do be aware that there will be probably be a significant cost incurred when you come to sell.

JuzaMum · 4 March 2018 at 10:20AM

I don't like artificial grass and don't think it is a good idea environmentally.
As for it putting me off buying a house? When I viewed my house the stair carpet was made of cat hair and held together with cat urine (original colour indistinguishable) so if it's the right house and the right price it wouldn't matter.

Lioness_Twinkletoes · 4 March 2018 at 10:24AM

I am a huge fan of artificial grass if it done well.

Rileybaby · 4 March 2018 at 10:35AM

Ive had it installed to make an unusable back garden usable. I love it, if and when I come to sell my buyers don!!!8217;t like it will be there decision to change it back to real grass.

Tygermoth · 4 March 2018 at 10:40AM

It's a small garden 25m by 28M ( i hope that's right i struggle with assigning a size value to numbers - see sig

) - think smallish cottage garden size-, south facing due to the way the tree dries out one half and the other is marsh i can only have a bed in one section of the garden - there is a house side wall at the end of the garden.

In fact the garden is not unsimilar to the size that lemonsqueezer78 posted in her comments (and i really like the garden!)

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5801078&page=2

Callie22 · 4 March 2018 at 10:45AM

It would put me off, mainly because the only people I know who have it are dog owners who want grass but couldn't keep it alive because of the dog pee. I know people who have it because it's easy to hose down and pick up the more solid deposits, but I just can't see how that wouldn't start to smell really, really bad, especially in the summer. I know that's not everyone's reason for having it but the idea of it just puts me off.

I can see how it would be a good solution for those who want 'green' in small town gardens but I'd rather have some kind of planting, if only for environmental reasons.

ACG · 4 March 2018 at 10:48AM

There is a house near my house I walk past a couple of times a week, I had been here about 6 months before I noticed it, it looks quite good.

But it would be a negative point if I were buying a house - ie it would be one of those things I would end up changing. If part of your garden is marshy and part is dry and you are having it landscaped, can you not get the landscaper to make some suggestions such s not having grass in those areas?

Amanda_Cm · 4 March 2018 at 10:53AM

Is a big NoNo for me but I like big natural looking gardens.
Is ok for small garden that looks more like a patio especially if it belongs to terraced house without side or back access.

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