Artificial Grass for decoration

gazelec

Hi, I'm looking to lay about 1.5m2 x 1.5m2 around the base of a tree in the corner behind a small flowerbed wall, at the moment I have soil, would it be ok to compact this as much as I can (as area is tight) and just lay the grass on top? It will never be walked on etc, just used as a fairy corner for my daughter.

CosmicFool

I would get rid of the top soil and put sharp sand down. Couple inches will do. Would not recommend laying it on soil.

Heres Johnny

How many pieces of artificial grass do you plan on using? It comes in straight strips how will you arrange it around a base of an existing tree?

I have it in my garden and it's great but I have a single sheet of it 4m wide x 7m long.

You can buy 1m wide rolls though

gazelec

If I could find 2 x 2 sheet of it that would do, I was going to cut it straight up to the middle and then try to join the cut or place a mini walkway for the fairy house over the cut, prob would look terrible though

Heres Johnny

Yeah actually you could have 2 parallel pieces 750mm wide each and 1.5m long

Cut a semi circle out of both of them to fit around the tree depending on size of tree

If you're near to Naas, Sanctuary Synthetics sell off cuts at their sales office, so you could be lucky and get the size you want.

gazelec

What would be the correct method in laying this,
Flatten down the topsoil
Place a layer of gravel and beat down
Place a layer of sand (plastering sand or mortar sand do?)
Place some weed membrane down
Lay the grass