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?

[lionelf]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[lionelf]

All that jazz said:

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?

It doesn't feel particularly 'plasticy' but it does warm up in the sun but not to the point where you wouldn't lie down on it.

Bird muck etc you just hose off should it happen. But like with my real lawn I never noticed much of this to be honest.