Clear the ground
Everything organic has to go — the old lawn, the root mat, the soft stuff below it. Anything left in there carries on rotting down and takes the surface with it a season later.
Artificial grass
Astroturf that still looks laid in year five
Artificial grass across Rotherham. A base that carries the traffic, a screed you can put a level on, and seams you have to hunt for. Green through the winter, and no mower to store.
Grass cut in around a sunken trampoline and run flush to the deck and the paving, with no lip at either edge.
The build-up
Bad artificial grass is almost always a bad base
The grass itself comes off a roll. Whether it still looks right in five years or ripples inside eighteen months is settled entirely underneath it.
Stone, compacted wet
Aggregate goes in shallow lifts and each one gets whacked before the next arrives. Depth is set by what the space will carry: a family lawn asks more of the base than a shaded side strip.
Screed off true
Sand laid and rodded flat, checked with a level rather than eyeballed. Every ripple you can see from an upstairs window started as a high spot at this stage.
Lay, seam, dress
Rolls run in one direction, seams bonded and combed out so they disappear, perimeter fixed down, then silica sand worked in to weight the pile and stand it up.
Family gardens
Grass that survives a family
The lawns that take the most punishment are the ones with a trampoline, a slide and a well-worn route to the back gate. Real turf gives up on those first. Artificial grass cut in around a sunken trampoline and run tight to the paving keeps its colour through the winter and does not turn the back door into a mud trap.
- Cut in cleanly around sunken trampolines and play equipment
- Run tight to paving and decking with no lip to trip on
- Back in use within minutes of the rain stopping
- No bald routes across the middle or along the fence
- Kiln-dried sand brushed through so the pile stands up
Long gardens
Long, narrow and shaded
The long thin garden with fences down both sides is the hardest place to keep real grass alive. Not enough light gets in, everyone walks the same line, and the far end is permanently damp. Artificial grass does not care about any of it, and stepping stones down one side stop the whole thing reading as a corridor.
- Works in shade where real turf thins out and gives up
- Stepping stone runs set into the grass to break up the length
- Edges fixed to timber or paving so nothing lifts along a fence
- Pile laid running one way from end to end
- Joints glued and hidden rather than pinned and hoped for
Play areas
Play areas and heavy-use spaces
Grass in a space that gets used all day by a lot of feet is a different job to a back lawn. The base has to take constant traffic without rutting, the edges have to be flush with whatever surface they meet, and covers and drains have to stay reachable rather than being grassed over.
- Base built for constant footfall rather than occasional use
- Flush transitions into safety surfacing, paving and kerb lines
- Inspection covers kept accessible and finished around
- Fixed edges along fencing, sheds and boundaries
- Laid to fall so water clears instead of sitting
Grass, deck and paving
The join is where a cheap job gives itself away.
Grass, decking and paving all have to arrive at the same level and meet on a straight line. Set out together that happens by design. Done as three separate visits you get a step where you wanted a seam and a gap where you wanted an edge.
Customer reviews
Astroturf customers
“really happy with these had a full garden patio installtion and a sunmer hiuse built, astroturf in the middle looks so good i coukdnt he happier desfinetly worth going with”
Alfie H.Customer Review
“Used these for a project I’m currently doing did my Astroturf very happy with the results”
Mustafa K.Customer Review
“Got my turf levelled by Charlie and his team had a right hand full to get a decent landscaper and these did the job well which is hard to find without been messed about by others”
Bailey H.Customer Review
These reviews were left for GreenForge and are printed exactly as they were written, spelling included. Surnames are shortened to an initial.
Where we work
Rotherham and the villages around it
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