Turfing and new lawns in Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Ground prepared and levelled, quality turf laid tight, watering plan explained. Free quotes.
Autumn is ideal: warm soil, reliable rain, and it establishes before it has to work. Spring is fine too. Mid-summer is possible but you will be watering it daily and it is easy to lose.
Yes, but not straight onto it. The heavier Kirkby soil needs breaking up and improving first or the lawn sits in water all winter. That preparation is most of the job and most of the price.
Keep off it for two to three weeks while it roots, and give it its first light cut once it is holding when you tug it. Walking on new turf too early is the most common way to ruin it.
Builders often spread a thin layer of topsoil over compacted ground and rubble, so roots cannot get down and water cannot drain. Removing the rubble and adding good topsoil before re-turfing fixes the cause.
Around 100 to 150 millimetres of good topsoil gives turf enough depth to root and hold moisture. With less than that, the lawn dries out quickly in summer and struggles through winter.
New turf on unprepared ground is money on the compost heap. The heavy soil around Kirkby needs breaking up and levelling before anything is laid, and the first fortnight of watering matters more than the turf you chose.
The ground is prepared before any turf arrives: cleared, levelled, rotavated where it needs it and raked to a fine tilth. Turf laid onto unprepared ground knits badly and shows every lump underneath it for years.
Kirkby soil is heavy, so drainage and preparation matter more here than the grade of turf. We lay it fresh, butt the joints tight and tell you exactly how to water it for the first month, which is what actually decides whether it takes.
On the newer housing estates around Kirkby, the topsoil spread by the builder is often thin and sits on compacted subsoil with rubble in it. That is why new-build lawns go patchy and waterlogged, and a proper turfing job there starts by digging out the rubble and bringing in better soil.
Old grass off, soil broken up, graded and levelled, and topsoil added where the ground is poor.
The Nottinghamshire clay around Kirkby holds water. We deal with that before laying, not after it goes yellow.
Joints staggered and pushed up close so they knit rather than open into lines.
What to do for the first fortnight, written down. It is the part that decides whether it takes.
Builder rubble removed and a proper depth of topsoil added before the turf, so the lawn can root properly.
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