Our DIY guide to help you install your new artificial lawn.
You don’t have to be an expert to install Artificial Grass. Our free step by step guide and advice will help you install your artificial lawn.
We hire the full DIY lawn installation tool kit. Hiring the kit will help you to save a massive amount of money, instead of having to buy the essential tools needed. We have in stock and can supply all the products you will need to install your lawn.
To Begin
- Ensure the area drains suitably
- Use a Turf Cutter to remove your lawn to a maximum depth of 30/50mm
- Using tanalised battens, create a boundary around the perimeter, or ensure you have something as a marker i.e paving,wall, decking etc.
- Level the area to be covered
- Apply 30/50mm of sharp sand or recycled sharp sand. Level the sand layer and compact using a wacker plate
- Cover the area with Eckotek 7 weed suppressor or similar product
- Unroll your artificial lawn. Ensure all the edges are covered before trimming the lawn with a stanley knife, then fasten down all edges using a hammer and 25mm nails
How to install on hard surfaces
- Your Artificial Grass can easily be installed onto any existing concrete, decking or hard and smooth surface, as long as it drains well
- Remove any debris from the area you wish to cover. Ensure the area is dry
- Lay your Artificial Grass onto the area – remove any ripples and fix either just around the perimeter or the entire area using Aqua Bond Turf Glue and secure the edges with glue
How to join your Artificial Grass
- The most important things to ensure when joining two or more pieces of artificial grass are that the pile runs in the same direction and ONLY join manufactured straight edges, not cut edges
- Lay the two artificial grass pieces beside each other with the pile facing up, line the edges up alongside each other. Ensure the two pieces do not overlap or that there is no gap between the pieces
- Fold the edge of both pieces back approximately 1 inch, then carefully trim each joining edge to remove the black salvage edge
- Lay the joining tape on the floor so the two pieces of grass will meet to the centre of the jointing tape
- Apply jointing adhesive along the tape in a zig zag line
- Fold one side of the Artificial Grass onto half of the tape, then fold the other side onto the tape. Always ensure that your two Artificial Grass pieces butt up together all the way up the joining seam. Do not allow them to overlap at all. Ensure there are no grass fibres trapped in the joint. Slowly check along the line
- Firmly press along the length of the seam to ensure the adhesive sticks correctly and leave to dry
