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Old 30 Sep 20, 08:41 PM  
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Mobile Returfing the garden

I have two bits of garden
5x7 and 4x7 so about 63m2 is needed to lay new turf

Hardly needs any top soil at all and we have already landscaped to how we wanted saving thousands.

I can buy the turf for £300ish or I can have a landscaper to do it for £670

What do you think? Is that a reasonable price?

Part of me wants to do it myself and save the money but the other part doesn’t.
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Old 30 Sep 20, 08:44 PM  
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Would it not be a lot cheaper to seed it?
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Old 30 Sep 20, 09:06 PM  
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I'd pay. To remove the old turf and take away will take time and effort (and probably a skip).

I think that price sounds fair.
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Old 30 Sep 20, 09:44 PM  
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If it’s just a question of laying turf do it yourself, it’s a doddle, the prep is the hard bit.

My lawn is about 80m2, once the soil was level I laid the turf in an afternoon, easy job wouldn’t pay someone to do it
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Old 30 Sep 20, 09:59 PM  
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I prepped a strip in the garden roughly 10x4 seeded it a month ago and I have already needed to mow it , it looks great and the seed cost me £6:99 for a box , we went around a lot of places looking at turf and it was disappointing.
Took about 3 hours all told ,Including hand sieving stones out and a good watering before and after.
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Old 1 Oct 20, 08:09 AM  
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Price sounds ok . The other points made are also valid
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Old 1 Oct 20, 08:53 AM  
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Originally Posted by Mikeandrach View Post
If it’s just a question of laying turf do it yourself, it’s a doddle, the prep is the hard bit.

My lawn is about 80m2, once the soil was level I laid the turf in an afternoon, easy job wouldn’t pay someone to do it
I agree here. Did ours last year and laying the turf is the easy part. The hard work is all in the prep - removing any existing turf, clearing debris, levelling, fertilising.
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Old 1 Oct 20, 08:56 AM  
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I'd pay. To remove the old turf and take away will take time and effort (and probably a skip).

I think that price sounds fair.
Already removed the old and taken it away



This is what it is currently. Only needs turf and bit of top soil
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Old 1 Oct 20, 12:27 PM  
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You've done the hard bit. Judging by the photo, laying the turf will be a doddle. I'd save the £370 and do it yourself. Shouldn't take more than a day to do.

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Old 1 Oct 20, 07:47 PM  
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Originally Posted by vampiress88 View Post
Already removed the old and taken it away



This is what it is currently. Only needs turf and bit of top soil
Definitely already done the hard part. Go for it!
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