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  • Critique my lawn
  • nwmlarge
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    Needs a porch

    bearnecessities
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    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 may 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 lot 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!)

    renton
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    That looks really good to be honest.

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

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

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

    See? Nothing to worry about. *mops brow*

    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!

    Jamie
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    The brickle down theory?

    blader1611
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    Where is your red and white drive gate gone?

    matt_outandabout
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    At least the car matches the windows.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    WHERE’S THE LAWN??!!!

    IT’S DONE!

    To summarise, because Photobucket bastards.

    Before:

    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.

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

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

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

    .and a lawn, at last!!

    myti
    Free Member

    Nice lawn. Shame about the gravel 😉

    glasgowdan
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    House just needs a lick of yellow paint now

    matt_outandabout
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    You laid a lawn in January?
    I await ‘what replacement turf’ thread…

    And kayak23’s post still makes me giggle.

    nickfrog
    Free Member

    You laid a lawn in January?

    Why not ?

    I have done it before without issues.

    Jamie
    Free Member

    House just needs a lick of yellow paint now

    Nah. Brown.

    johndoh
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    No reason not to lay turf in January but I wouldn’t have been rollering it straight away personally.

    matt_outandabout
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    I’m further North, I’m not sure I would lay in January, but that’s a reflection of climate more than anything…

    Merak
    Full Member

    doffscap

    I ache for the days I can fire up the mower and
    mow until my heart’s content.

    It’s a long winter.

    cranberry
    Free Member

    House just needs a lick of yellow paint now

    Nope, it matches the colour of the path perfectly.

    johndoh
    Free Member

    I ache for the days I can fire up the mower and
    mow until my heart’s content.

    I am like that until sometime in around August by which time I am getting bored of it and can’t wait for autumn and the damn stuff to stop growing.

    Kryton57
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    Can’t see the point of having a lawn right next to a major highway

    a) Can’t gaze at it, without seeing HGV’s zoom past every minute
    b) Can’t sit on it, too noisy
    c) Kids / Pets can’t play on it, too dangerous.

    0/10 for site location planning.

    Oh, and er 😉

    Gary_M
    Free Member

    Can’t see the point of having a lawn right next to a major highway

    Bearing in mind there isn’t a single car passing in any of the pics I wouldn’t say it was a ‘major highway’.

    Having a nice front garden enhances the look of the house anyway, it’s not just about use.

    Good work OP

    sharkbait
    Free Member

    Looks like a nice job. So how do you clean the lovely resin bonded gravel path?

    glasgowdan
    Free Member

    You can lay turf any time as long as you can physically unroll the turf without it being frozen.

    Not keen on using a roller to gently compact the soil though. You may find small hollows forming as it gets foot traffic in the spring. Easy enough to fill them with soil though

    bearnecessities
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    Thanks SB. When it was laid I was scared to jetwash it, but it’s proved to be resilient to a full-whack assault from the Nilfisk to remove tyre marks, so when it stops raining I’ll clean using that. 🙂

    GD. I wasn’t keen on rollering TBH as it’s not really a good idea generally, as you know, but I couldn’t do the compacting before laying due to how wet and fluffy the soil was, so had to do after laying the turf.

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