Artificial Lawns - Who's Got One? What's The Consensus?

[lionelf]

I've ordered (and am having installed this Monday) this artificial lawn:



It's the Easigrass Mayfair. I saw it on somebodies front garden and was blown away by it's likeness to real grass. The owner said it was the best £3,000 he'd ever spent.

So, anyone else gone down this route? What do you think? Got pictures?

[C0ffin D0dger]

Will somebody please think of the worms + the birds that eat them

[bogie]

Yes loads of us on here, theres a thread every week if you do a search. Mines been down 3 years now, best thing I ever did...near maintenance free and got 25% of my weekend back to enjoy rather than work in the garden

[KrissKross]

I have, its basically an outdoor carpet, just wipe the bird sh;t off once and while, job done!

[lionelf]

Well they've got stuck in. It's not the worlds biggest garden so I reckon/hope it'll be done by 5pm.

[TLandCruiser]

we had our garden in the last house laid with artificial lawn, it was great absolute minimal maintenance, no muddy footprints from the dogs brought in. Just get the best quality lawn you can afford so it looks and feels more natural.

[BRISTOL86]

Pics when it's done please!

[lionelf]

Thus far:



Old grass is up and a base is down. Click on the picture then when the next window opens click on the picture again to get a good picture of it. The above pic is being compressed to fit.

[48k]

How deep did they dig down out of interest? I've got an artifical lawn being laid on Wednesday. It took me and the OH nearly 4 hours to dig out a tree root over the weekend. It didn't go down without a fight - broke two tools and a reciprocating saw blade in the process

[lionelf]

I'm told (I was at work whilst they were doing it) that they went down about 3 to 4 inches. I came home to see the garden as it is in the picture above.

[IN51GHT]

We have one, it's a Luxolawn, it's superb. Totally changed the way we use the garden, the offspring spend far more time in the garden, less time shut inside.

[lionelf]

Just to tidy this thread up here's a couple of pictures from this morning.





My daughter and her husband came round last night and immediately said "We're getting this!"

Again, click on the picture and then click on the picture again in the new window that opens in order to get a better view.

[phil1979]

Looks really nice - an interesting garden you have there.

Now, be honest.... will you be getting the vacuum cleaner to it when it needs 'cutting'?

[jon-]

I mean, it does look fake, but it also looks glorious. Very interested!

Are we allowed to ask how many sq/m and cost?

[sidekickdmr]

Looks good, certainly one of the more realistic installations I’ve seen, some look like a game of subbuteo.

[lionelf]

phil1979 said:

Looks really nice - an interesting garden you have there.

Now, be honest.... will you be getting the vacuum cleaner to it when it needs 'cutting'?

[lionelf]

jon- said:

I mean, it does look fake, but it also looks glorious. Very interested!

Are we allowed to ask how many sq/m and cost?

Up close it's almost impossible to tell, seriously. You can't even 'dig' down to the plastic backing it's so full of fake thatch.

It cost £3k, they wanted £3.5k but I bartered them down by £500 when they came to measure up and cost it. It was their most expensive product (the Mayfair) and it was at this years Chelsea show I'm told. But I believe you get what you pay for and it'll last 20 years so hey-ho. I've already put my gardening stuff up on the local 'sell-it' website. Wish I'd done this 5 years ago instead of wasting money on a new real lawn which despite my best efforts died in the shady parts within 18 months.

The company is Easigrass and this is the product:

http://www.easigrass.com/artificial-grass/easi-may...

I can't stress this enough, it is stunningly beautiful and looks like I actually know what I'm doing in a garden.

[lionelf]

jon- said:

Are we allowed to ask how many sq/m and cost?

Sorry I didn't address this properly. I can't remember what it worked out at but it was originally £3,500 and the area they had to charge me for was about 55' x 21'.

Unfortunately their invoice doesn't specify a sq/m cost as we then 'bartered' down to £3,000. In return I gave up my right to any off-cuts which, as you can see, in places would be considerable. I still got a couple of big off-cuts handed to me anyway.

[crashley]

That does indeed look great. Would it look equally ok over more bland big square areas though? If my boxer kills the back garden this year, this will become an option come Spring if it looks ok.

[All that jazz]

lionelf said:

Sorry I didn't address this properly. I can't remember what it worked out at but it was originally £3,500 and the area they had to charge me for was about 55' x 21'.

Unfortunately their invoice doesn't specify a sq/m cost as we then 'bartered' down to £3,000.

So it's about £3 a sq ft then, £2.60 with some bargaining. Does like good, have to admit. What does it feel like though? On a hot day going out into the garden and laying on the cool grass with a cold beer is a nice feeling. Not sure you'd get the same effect with that; in fact with it being plastic it'd probably burn your arse?

How do you clean bird st and muck off it? Do you have to pressure wash it or something?