Anyone install artificial grass at your house? (4 Viewers)

[-fish-]

My backyard has some drainage issues and bad soil. Keeping it watered in the summer to keep the grass alive triples my water bill, and during the winter the moss takes over, so I've basically abandoned it and just mow whatever happens to be growing out there, since nobody can see it and I don't care that much. I'm thinking of tearing it all out and replacing it with a high-end artificial grass and never having to maintain it again. I don't plan on selling this house or moving anytime soon. It would look way better and I'd be more likely to actually use my backyard, but the one-time cost of installation is expensive.

Anyone installed artificial grass at their house? Thoughts?

 

[playin4beer]

I'm picturing the Brady's backyard...

 

[Gally]

Yep. I have a tiered back yard and I used artificial turf on the upper part so I didn't have to get a mower up there. Looks and works great. Highly recommend

 

[Bob Loblaw]

If you move forward with this project, definitely hire a crew to do the lawn demo and turf install. I tried to do DIY and it was brutal, and it was only for a 15' x 18' space. Also, try to get one piece of turf, if possible, to cover the entire area. I used rolls from Costco (the space is only used by the dogs for their play area and pee/poo area), and you can see that the different rolls aren't identical matches. I guess try to buy from the same manufacturing batch if possible. I am very happy with the water bill savings and not having to deal with discolored/dying lawn due to the canine urine.

 

[Runkle]

My neighbor apparently replaced his entire lawn front and back with artificial turf.

I know because I saw a post on Nextdoor about his lawn getting stolen a week later. Some crew drove up in the middle of the night with a couple of trucks, pulled up all the stakes, and rolled it all up and drove off with it.

 

[FarFromHome]

My neighbor apparently replaced his entire lawn front and back with artificial turf.

I know because I saw a post on Nextdoor about his lawn getting stolen a week later. Some crew drove up in the middle of the night with a couple of trucks, pulled up all the stakes, and rolled it all up and drove off with it.

Absolutely horrible. Whats wrong with people?

 

[-fish-]

If you move forward with this project, definitely hire a crew to do the lawn demo and turf install. I tried to do DIY and it was brutal, and it was only for a 15' x 18' space. Also, try to get one piece of turf, if possible, to cover the entire area. I used rolls from Costco (the space is only used by the dogs for their play area and pee/poo area), and you can see that the different rolls aren't identical matches. I guess try to buy from the same manufacturing batch if possible. I am very happy with the water bill savings and not having to deal with discolored/dying lawn due to the canine urine.

There will be no DIY involved. If I do this they're removing the old lawn, digging down about 5 inches and laying crushed gravel, underlayment and artificial lawn.

 

[Sammy3469]

My backyard has some drainage issues and bad soil. Keeping it watered in the summer to keep the grass alive triples my water bill, and during the winter the moss takes over, so I've basically abandoned it and just mow whatever happens to be growing out there, since nobody can see it and I don't care that much. I'm thinking of tearing it all out and replacing it with a high-end artificial grass and never having to maintain it again. I don't plan on selling this house or moving anytime soon. It would look way better and I'd be more likely to actually use my backyard, but the one-time cost of installation is expensive.

Anyone installed artificial grass at their house? Thoughts?

We have it in our front courtyard (8x10 and then a 4x6 area) and love it (SoCal for reference). You can get it really "plush" (basically a bunch of long thicker strands and then shorter, hairier strands) and we don't regret it. The gardener/handyman probably has a couple of shops they usually work with, so go and pick out the right color and texture, but definitely get the higher end stuff and if its sunny get the "cool yarn".

 

[urbanhack]

If you move forward with this project, definitely hire a crew to do the lawn demo and turf install. I tried to do DIY and it was brutal, and it was only for a 15' x 18' space. Also, try to get one piece of turf, if possible, to cover the entire area. I used rolls from Costco (the space is only used by the dogs for their play area and pee/poo area), and you can see that the different rolls aren't identical matches. I guess try to buy from the same manufacturing batch if possible. I am very happy with the water bill savings and not having to deal with discolored/dying lawn due to the canine urine.

There will be no DIY involved. If I do this they're removing the old lawn, digging down about 5 inches and laying crushed gravel, underlayment and artificial lawn.

make sure to put in a putting green and disc golf baskets?

 

[bagger]

My backyard has some drainage issues and bad soil. Keeping it watered in the summer to keep the grass alive triples my water bill, and during the winter the moss takes over, so I've basically abandoned it and just mow whatever happens to be growing out there, since nobody can see it and I don't care that much. I'm thinking of tearing it all out and replacing it with a high-end artificial grass and never having to maintain it again. I don't plan on selling this house or moving anytime soon. It would look way better and I'd be more likely to actually use my backyard, but the one-time cost of installation is expensive.

Anyone installed artificial grass at their house? Thoughts?

Doing this right now in our backyard. Keeping the front yard natural grass. Not cheap but worth it over the long term I think.

 

[Gally]

Also, depending where you live you may be able to get a water credit from your water company for drought tolerant landscaping. I think I got a $1200 rebate for doing it.

 

[Runkle]

Also, depending where you live you may be able to get a water credit from your water company for drought tolerant landscaping. I think I got a $1200 rebate for doing it.

I want to say my area, during the last drought, had a "$X per sq ft" deal going where every bit of grass you took out and xeriscaped got a rebate.

Then a year or two later, the program was "too successful" and so many people went hardscape that the water runoff tables got all screwed up and with so much less shade trees that the drought got worse and power usage for AC went up. So the city put in a hardscape tax... every square foot that isn't grass now gets a yearly tax penalty assessed.

 

[Todem]

Yeah our backyard is all artificial turf and we love it.

 

[Gally]

Also, depending where you live you may be able to get a water credit from your water company for drought tolerant landscaping. I think I got a $1200 rebate for doing it.

I want to say my area, during the last drought, had a "$X per sq ft" deal going where every bit of grass you too out and xeriscaped got a rebate.

Then a year or two later, the program was "too successful" and so many people went hardscape that the water runoff tables got all screwed up and with so much less shade trees that the drought got worse and power usage for AC went up. So the city put in a hardscape tax... every square foot that isn't grass now gets a yearly tax penalty assessed.

That just seems dumb.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

I toss the idea around all the time but haven’t pulled the trigger. I like the no maintenance, don’t love the plastic grass

 

[Gally]

don’t love the plastic grass

What about it? Look, feel, ?????

A good artificial turn is darn near impossible to tell if it is real or fake strictly on the look of it. The feel of it isn't bad either and can be soft and nice to touch as well. It does get a lot hotter if you are in a hot place with direct sun but it is also less humid so maybe a bit of a trade off. Also, no bugs.

 

[-fish-]

If you move forward with this project, definitely hire a crew to do the lawn demo and turf install. I tried to do DIY and it was brutal, and it was only for a 15' x 18' space. Also, try to get one piece of turf, if possible, to cover the entire area. I used rolls from Costco (the space is only used by the dogs for their play area and pee/poo area), and you can see that the different rolls aren't identical matches. I guess try to buy from the same manufacturing batch if possible. I am very happy with the water bill savings and not having to deal with discolored/dying lawn due to the canine urine.

There will be no DIY involved. If I do this they're removing the old lawn, digging down about 5 inches and laying crushed gravel, underlayment and artificial lawn.

make sure to put in a putting green and disc golf baskets?

putting green option makes it prohibitively expensive. I can chip off of the stuff I'm looking at, though. My chipping needs a lot more work than my putting anyway.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

don’t love the plastic grass

What about it? Look, feel, ?????

A good artificial turn is darn near impossible to tell if it is real or fake strictly on the look of it. The feel of it isn't bad either and can be soft and nice to touch as well. It does get a lot hotter if you are in a hot place with direct sun but it is also less humid so maybe a bit of a trade off. Also, no bugs.

I’m in socal. The look is really good. It’s the tactile part of it. My neighbors have some almost shag carpet version. It’s pretty amazing visually.

 

[phandango]

I toss the idea around all the time but haven’t pulled the trigger. I like the no maintenance, don’t love the plastic grass

You can't tell. We got fake grass in Northern California (Bay Area) about 15 years ago, and then again after we moved to San Diego. We had landscapers put it in both times. Yes, there's a seam, but it's hardly noticeable, and, in any case, I'd rather have the look of dark green, uniformly short grass than a lawn with spotty brown spots and dead areas. We have a dog, and the rare times when he actually does go poo on the fake grass, we either just pick it up right away or hose it off if it's messy. We've had the fake lawn since 2017, and we do get small weeds that penetrate the ground cover and come up through the grass, but you'll get that in a regular lawn, too, and the weeds are easy to pull.

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

I'm in South Florida for reference. We built our house and for 2 years or so, we tried to grow the grass in the back. It was under some heavy oak tree cover, so the sun was spotty. Decided to replace the back and side yard with artificial turf. Best upgrade in the 5 years we have been in the new house. Plus, it helps that we weren't tracking dirt in the house since there wasn't a whole lot of grass growing in the backyard anyway. We didn't buy the absolute top-of-the-line stuff because it was too plushy/fluffy(?) compared to what we wanted. Went with the step down from that one. Super easy to maintain, mostly just raking off all of the GD leaves that fall from the oak.

Love it.

 

[dkp993]

Don’t have it at my house but have installed it at multiple venues I run. Lots of pluses to it as mentioned above. But 2 things to think about. If you live somewhere it’s hot the turf can get extremely hot (unlike real grass). Second, if you have pets don’t let them pee on it. The smell gets awful over time, even the “pet proof” stuff.

 

[culdeus]

You can't do it here anymore. It's messing with the water runoff and putting a bunch of **** in the drain sewers.

We had some around our pool. Over time it got lumpy in spots and had to be leveled again. You could get third degree burns walking on it in the summer.

It's not great for pets either. For a no traffic area it's fine.

 

[ChiefD]

No.

Because it’s dumb.

 

[Chemical X]

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[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I want solar panels and electric cars because I want to save the environment. We should all bike to work!!!!!!!

Oh, and I’ll have some plastic spread all over my yard so only my closest family and pets can inhale and absorb the carcinogens.

 

[Snoopy]

This house near downtown Green Bay used to have artificial turf, but it was since removed and it is now a complete concrete yard.
Now: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZkw15QV4LKX2oMs9
When it had green turf: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qhe4BhD6XvhGtnLJA

 

[FarFromHome]

I want solar panels and electric cars because I want to save the environment. We should all bike to work!!!!!!!

Oh, and I’ll have some plastic spread all over my yard so only my closest family and pets can inhale and absorb the carcinogens.

Pass. But I do recycle. Never mind I don't. I do replace faucet cartridgea when sinks drip water. I also turn lights out I like the idea of fake grass, but because it would be easier to maintain. Now that I know rival gangs would take it I'm out. Ha ha

 

[-fish-]

I want solar panels and electric cars because I want to save the environment. We should all bike to work!!!!!!!

Oh, and I’ll have some plastic spread all over my yard so only my closest family and pets can inhale and absorb the carcinogens.

Weird post.

The product I'm looking at is non-toxic, no crumb rubber and no PFAS, so not really worried about any of that. I'm not putting in a football field.

 

[Gally]

No.

Because it’s dumb.

You only say that because it renders shovels useless

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I want solar panels and electric cars because I want to save the environment. We should all bike to work!!!!!!!

Oh, and I’ll have some plastic spread all over my yard so only my closest family and pets can inhale and absorb the carcinogens.

Weird post.

The product I'm looking at is non-toxic, no crumb rubber and no PFAS, so not really worried about any of that. I'm not putting in a football field.

Oh, my mistake. I thought you said you were gonna remove a bunch of grass dirt and whatever else grows there and replace it with something man-made and durable. I 100% believe that’s possible too

I’m crazy. Id probably spend the money regrading and reseeding with grass that will thrive there.

Good luck with the fooseball.

 

[the moops]

My neighbor apparently replaced his entire lawn front and back with artificial turf.

I know because I saw a post on Nextdoor about his lawn getting stolen a week later. Some crew drove up in the middle of the night with a couple of trucks, pulled up all the stakes, and rolled it all up and drove off with it.

Absolutely horrible. Whats wrong with people?

Absolutely horrible, but also ridiculously humorous

 

[ChiefD]

No.

Because it’s dumb.

You only say that because it renders shovels useless

Tooshay

 

[FarFromHome]

My neighbor apparently replaced his entire lawn front and back with artificial turf.

I know because I saw a post on Nextdoor about his lawn getting stolen a week later. Some crew drove up in the middle of the night with a couple of trucks, pulled up all the stakes, and rolled it all up and drove off with it.

Absolutely horrible. Whats wrong with people?

Absolutely horrible, but also ridiculously humorous

Having worked in the prison system for a decade I've dealt with a lot of gangs. Zero artificial turf gangsters. Ha ha

 

[-fish-]

My neighbor apparently replaced his entire lawn front and back with artificial turf.

I know because I saw a post on Nextdoor about his lawn getting stolen a week later. Some crew drove up in the middle of the night with a couple of trucks, pulled up all the stakes, and rolled it all up and drove off with it.

Absolutely horrible. Whats wrong with people?

Absolutely horrible, but also ridiculously humorous

Having worked in the prison system for a decade I've dealt with a lot of gangs. Zero artificial turf gangsters. Ha ha

too smart to get busted

 

[Chemical X]

i was just thinking about this over the weekend here across the pond. i have a multi tiered property, with a lower section of about 400cm x 800cm. was thinking of artificial grass surrounding a 3 hole putting green. i would half *** the install by laying paper then the surface.