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Sorry to be an arse, but that would be such an easy strip to put down topsoil and grass seed. You’d have a lovely bit of lawn by the end of the summer with no micro plastics entering the environment.
I regret that I have no experience to pass on over laying AstroTurf. The only thing that I do know is that you will need a very impermeable layer beneath it over the soil otherwise you will be weeding your fake grass in no time at all which would be comedic.
Your wood strip would definitely need treating otherwise will rot in no time. The gap between strip and fence will also make a perfect trap for weed seeds and let them grow nice and strong before growing up against the fence so that you get to strim the margins of your plastic grass too - or pour poison down the edge (which will leach into next door).Crikey, I’m pissing on your parade. Really sorry, not the intention.
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Could you not just turf it?
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Nothing that helpful add except that as someone who has recently viewed an enormous number of front gardens there are three things that will make it look good vs shit over time:
- Evenness of ground - you can have a slope, but the ground must be even. Lumps and bumps will make it look shit.
- Neatness of edges - unfortunately you've got a rectangle so you've got to to make it as crisp and straight as it can be. But in your favour hopefully you won't have any joins.
- Boarder interface - this needs to be clean and ideally natural (unless you want it to look fun and fake).
Other 2p comments are that I'd pick whether stylistically you want it to look natural or fake.
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she wants to be able to use that section of garden year round.
Weedproof membrane and gravel will do that and will take you both about 20mins to put down and give you the option of interspersing plants in the future.
- Evenness of ground - you can have a slope, but the ground must be even. Lumps and bumps will make it look shit.
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Right don't hate me, but I'm putting down a SMALL bit of evilfakegrass.
Doing it myself as on a budget and I'm struggling with the base prep.
Can anyone like @ColinTheBald @RagnarHairybreeks give some advice?
I've got some MOT and Sharp Sand I've still got to put down.
The wife would like it level with the top of the wonky inherited paving but that would make it too high up on the fence side. Guess I could slope it down slightly towards the fence?
The alternative is putting it under the lip of the paving.
Also how do I deal with the edge by the fence? It isn't totally straight either.
Got some long wood strips (shown) I could fix onto stakes and fix the evilfakegrass onto that?
And in between the edge and the fence put some more MOT down there to prevent rot?
(There is plenty of real grass, plants and flowers in the rest of the garden)
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