[Closed] Critique my lawn

I like a well trimmed box.

With acknowledgement to Finbar Saunders

That house isn't half as pink as the one near me, although they do seem to have started painting it as they now think that may be why they've had no offers after 4 years on the market.
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Could be because the locals approach the junction opposite at 70mph.

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Suitably impressed with your manskills.

Have you just produced the worlds first driveway only suitable for mobility scooters? What were you thinking man - off road parking opportunity missed and replaced with area for growing green stuff you'll never look at but be required to tend to instead of having a life.

I do however covet your brick laying skills.

Hell no, this isn't my work! Decided to get professionals in. This is just an house-renovation-update type thing, for those that remember.

And it's perspective Convert, the area to the right is 4.85 deep.

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Plus, birds and wildlife stuff can't get worms out of tarmac. And I like a bit of foliage.

Plus, birds and wildlife stuff can't get worms out of tarmac. And I like a bit of foliage.

Quite right too...an ornamental tree might look nice. Maybe a Himalayan Birch ?

Reported to mods - this is really a rate my brickie thread.
No lawn ffs.
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That house isn't half as pink as the one near me

"skelped baboon's arse" on the dulux chart that one 😯

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Lol! nice bush

Oh. Chuffin' hilarious.

Bastards. 🙂

Your windows are giving me OCD. Well, the one on the top right is, anyway. Any chance you could sort that out?

Please paint your wall orange, it will clash nicely with the pink.

And then you won't need to listen to people commenting on the pink house 🙂

Might critique the work as I ride past tomorrow 😉

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Any chance you could sort that out?

I could prescribe you some Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.

Genuinely have tears if laughter here. Thank you kayak23

Next stop, cleaning up and.....lawn.

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Are you stuck the wrong side of the red and white tape for the night?

Is that as yellow as my phone screen makes it?

Does Elton still live up the road?

-10 points , not one mug of tea in any of the photos .

Will you be painting the top pillar slab so it matches everything else?!

Well spotted enfht . Are the pillars even level!?
The large dollop of mortar under the right hand slab is ruining it all for me.
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Enfht and senior j - that pillar was there before bear started. It might belong to house in the right

this might be a slight hijack but i was reading that you can get shade tolerant turf, ie a lawn in a north facing garden that doesnt instantly become a gloopy boggy mossy mess??

Does it work, is it any good, or is it bollocks?

Looks good that.

Interested to know what the driveway stuff is and how it was laid!

Looks like a resin bonded finish. Pricey!

this might be a slight hijack but i was reading that you can get shade tolerant turf, ie a lawn in a north facing garden that doesnt instantly become a gloopy boggy mossy mess??

Needs a porch

Is that as yellow as my phone screen makes it?

No. It's autumn red 🙂 .

Will you be painting the top pillar slab so it matches everything else?!

I [i]may[/i] have messed up with the pier cap. I kinda like it at the same time though. I'll see.

Are the pillars even level!?

Matches the windows.

Interested to know what the driveway stuff is and how it was laid!

Porous resin bound. MOT Type 3, Open texture asphalt, tree jizz & gravel.

Pricey!

Well it wasn't cheap, but not outrageous. If anyone is in W.Yorks and interested, drop me a PM. I've dealt with a [b]lot[/b] of tradesmen over the last 3 years of this place, and this was the most honest and diligent bunch I've met - from start to finish.

Cost me a fortune at the butty & chippy shop, mind you.

Just for my own back-patting ('cos you kind of need to look back when going through this, as many of you will know), and those that remember the original thread, this is the before and after over the last 3 years, nearly to the day.

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At last, I won't be ashamed to walk out of the front door. (Seriously, I was!)

That looks really good to be honest.

I think it needs a water feature.
Renton is right btw.

Why does the brickwork of your house now seem to have a different texture to the "before" images?

Have you just produced the worlds first driveway only suitable for mobility scooters?

See? Nothing to worry about. *mops brow*

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Why does the brickwork of your house now seem to have a different texture to the "before" images?

It's been lightly cleaned and repointed all round. However I'd like to think that the crippling amount of money spend on everything else helps lift the brickwork!

The brickle down theory?

Where is your red and white drive gate gone?

At least the car matches the windows.

WHERE'S THE LAWN??!!!

IT'S DONE!

To summarise, because Photobucket bastards.

Before:

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Woke up this morning with an air of random determination to sort the lawn out. This is after 2 passes of the rotavator in late summer, but weeds had predictably made an appearance.

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Picked out the weeds and started to level it all. Unbelievably this took 4 hours (something something follow camber/claggy soil etc).

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Then with a final, neurotic pass of the rake, started to lay each piece of turf.

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When it was all laid, I then levelled out all the 'aireated' soil (read: not-properly-compacted-because-I'd-rotavated-it-too-much)..

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.and a lawn, at last!!

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Nice lawn. Shame about the gravel 😉

House just needs a lick of yellow paint now

You laid a lawn in January?
I await 'what replacement turf' thread...

And kayak23's post still makes me giggle.

You laid a lawn in January?

Why not ?

I have done it before without issues.

House just needs a lick of yellow paint now

Nah. Brown.

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