The Installation of Synthetic Grasses

 

Having grasses in our homes or outside of our workplace is a good decoration for the landscaping design of the venue and it brings good view in our environment or ambiance. Aside from having natural grasses in our venue or environment, there are also artificial or synthetic grasses that can be purchased in the market so that we can use it also as decorations in our homes and offices. If you plan to install these synthetic grasses, you must follow certain steps or guides so that you can become successful in decorating your environment through these grasses.

 

There are easy and simple steps that you can research over the internet and you can surely follow these steps by yourself. You must put little hard work into this job and you must be very attentive on the details. The first thing that you have to do is you must remove the weeds in your lawn by using a sod cutter. If you do not have a sod cutter at home, you may rent this kind of equipment so that you do not need to buy it. This equipment is used so that the weeds or grasses are cut evenly and it would not destroy the water pipelines too. Read about astroturfing here at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing.

 

You must excavate the soil within two inches. After doing a not so deep excavation, you must also install a bendaboard on the sides of your gutter so that if you have pets or dogs at home, they will not be able to remove your artificial grass. If you have existing irrigation lines or systems in your lawn, you may cover it for a moment with caps so that you can use it again during sunny or hot weather. After that, you must also add a quarter inch self compacting gravel. You must use a rake also so that you can level and make the gravel compact so that your artificial grass will not look fake.

 

You must use water to wet the whole area by this time. To make the gravel flat and very compact, you must use a plate compactor. You must also a broom to remove the excess gravel. You can also add a weed mat prior to adding the rolls of synthetic grass. There are various sizes of the synthetic grass and make sure that you have the appropriate measurement of the fake turf grass when you lay it on your lawn.