all right and we're here returning this lord we
obviously you've seen the progress and what it looked like before so once we got all
our kind of patio in over here we made sure obviously we needed to get all our faces in
so we knew the bottom level the level of where the turf's going to be where we wanted our level to be
so once we got that in we've got our shed basin over here we've got our drive style curve engine
we were able to start rotating and leveling out the lawn area
we use attila over here mantis little tiller perfect for just um really just sort of scraping
over the top layer good for vegetable gardens but also good for just the top basically not
churning out big chunks so yeah we use a little tiller um we've obviously utilized all the soil
from the garden and spread that over the entire garden we've got rid of about an extra two tons
and yeah so once we kind of leveled it all out we renovated it uh re-levelled
motivated re-levelled and then what we do we basically go along the whole area
once it's kind of roughly level using your feet to stomp it in seems a bit
mad you look like a seagull but it just makes sure everything's compact
get your heels in there it just pushes everything down and you know that once you
lay your turf in a few months time there's not going to be a dip that forms so once you've um
yeah once you've rotated and leveled go across the whole garden stomping down the area like this
might take you an hour or so once you've done that
you then want to go back over the area this will be raised just sort of
and just get your final level before laying your your turf out right
disasters
so the way i do this when i'm uh installing it each roll i just popped it down
each line with this bumper which is made out of a bit of old sleeper
mdf and stuff yeah so just pump it so it's nice and compact
then the next line do a half roll like that it just offsets the joints
so uh and when you when you're putting it down put this one down
so once you get to these sort of bits here the joints
you want to knead them together squeeze them in together
like that really push them in overlap them and
squeeze them in as you can it's not going to hurt it
so yeah every new line you want to do just offset the joints so do a whole roll
then a half roll whole roll
they put their framework in like we've done and then they're almost at start
and they kind of work their way up and they use boards to continuously compact i mean i prefer
doing it this way because as i walk back i'm continuously compacting with my feet breaking over
this easter egg on that but how do you do it is it uh do you do it the other way
yeah just make sure all your joints all over that and uh yeah now a lot of people say wrong
use your turf within 24 hours i mean in the summer yeah i'm going to get them uh rolled out
within 24 hours i mean to be honest if you've got a really sunny day you just wanna get started like
six in the morning i think it's really dry out sometimes we're right at the moment we're in uh
february end of february the weather is kind of perfect for it
not too hot not too cold we've got a bit wet the rain to help it along
so on here we've just sort of utilized all the soil with the garden renovated it leveled
everything gone but if you want to help the roots what the australians do is they generally add
like an inch of uh sand underneath the sword just helps the the roots be a bit stronger
so they're generally doing like rugby pictures and things like that uh we're not doing that here
just the lawn which isn't gonna yet use too much so uh we've just utilized the pool in the garden
yeah you should be sweet okay
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