Redesign For Fairly New Build; Changing to Artificial Turf and Composite Decking
I posted a follow up to a thread in the problem solving section. I guess I should have started a new topic here instead.
Here's the original post, which contains a design for changing a degraded turf lawn to artificial with new borders and decking:
Grateful for advice before I start
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I can't understand what advice you are after, is it about the grass, the design or something else?
Most on here decry fake grass and plastic decking but it's your garden, real turf and wood decking are cheaper but involve more maintainence.
Please repost your design on this thread as it's difficult to refer to the design and write comments when you have to keep jumping between the two.
Sorry - just realised, compost is composite.
If the former, does it please you? If so, go for it.
If the latter. Personally, I think it sounds absolutely ghastly. An ecological desert. If I saw it as I was viewing a house for sale, it would put me off the sale.
I have seen other artificial lawns which have been installed as a DIY project or by cowboys (one knocked on our door the other day ... his reputation had travelled before him). They invariably have problems, from badly matched colour and wrinkles and rucks to really bad drainage problems leading to standing water ... I heard of one which had water seeping into the conservatory after heavy rain. We have had reports of several on this forum over the past couple of years ... it's very hard to know what to say that is helpful.
I'm afraid in this as in the rest of life, you get what you pay for so research the job thoroughly and get as much advice as you can ... it's not like laying a carpet.
Good luck!