Has anyone got astro turf ? what preparation is needed,anyone got any knowledge of this ?   :-)

Thanks Margaret

Tigger2 has it - I am sure if you pm her she will answer any questions you may have :-)

Have had astro turf for about 3 years (love it).  Been trying to remember how it was all fitted. It involved a thick membrane sheet, a lot of sand being hammered down.  If you go on any of the websites they do give instructions for what is involved in it. 

Google the artificial lawn company. On that site it gives you fitting instructions. Also has different grades. :) hth lea :)

I went to see about it yesterday and I don't have a particularly big garden but it was going to be over £3K to get my garden done.  The prices advertised generally don't include fitting and the place I went to said that fitting nearly doubled the cost taking it up to £40-£70 a square metre fitted.

The pictures I have seen of it down looked great but when you get closer to it, I felt that only the premium ranges looked ok and the others looked really cheap.  I am still hankering after the expensive range but not at that price unless I come into some serious money!

> Has anyone got astro turf ? what preparation is needed,anyone got any knowledge of this

I have artificial grass in my back garden and I love it, wish I could afford to get my huge front garden done. No mud & looks great all year round. Poo (even runny ones) are easily picked up and it's easy to hose down and disinfect. The dogs love playing on it. The only problem I had was that a corner lifted after a year in heavy winds and the grass wrinkled, you can see it in the video. I had to invite some people round for tea and a grass stretching party and glue it down again :-)

What surface do you have already? I had slabs in the back garden and simply glued the grass to it myself, well I say myself but actually it took 5 of us to manoeuvre the grass into position as it is really heavy.

Im sat with a big goofy grin looking at those stunners!!! made my day..

Thanks very much everyone,have sent for some samples,we will see where we go from here

My Lhasa friend has some and says it's great but she has to hoover the dog hair off it from time to time...made me laugh :-)

I have seen the samples of http://www.artificiallawn.co.uk/ both at trade fairs and crufts, all staff seem friendly, but I did order samples (just as I throw samples away we have to price up to do some!!!) a customer wants some LOL. The premium lawn is the most grass like and comes out about £18 per square meter. The fitting does look easy to do if you are DIY minded and we as a company would have no quarms fitting it, but them you need a level surface to start :)
Good luck :) :)
Lea :)
(Not advertising as no where near Baz!!!)

Often wondered about replacing the dirt patch that was once a lawn with artificial but a friend had it and although great , it was very expensive...

How does it cope with dog urine and poo? Doesn't all the sand get washed out when you hose it down?

I seem to remember there being a company that sold large pieces of "grass" that had been used at events like Crufts.  Looked like bargain prices?  Anyone know which company it might of been?

I think its ok where our two "board" when we are away Kelly has her whole back garden astroturf and the dogs love it, she just hoses it down and they have their own lamp post!!!

> How does it cope with dog urine and poo? Doesn't all the sand get washed out when you hose it down?

It's far easier to pick poo off the artificial stuff than the real grass and urine just soaks through. I disinfect mine weekly or two weekly in the winter and daily in the summer with mistral odourfresh. Rain cleans the grass like it does real grass. I didn't choose a type that needed sand infill because the whole idea was a clean place for the dogs to go in and out, I didn't want them dragging sand into the house on their feet.