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definetly getting more popular
I will be interested to see the responses. I have a couple of customers where 'Artificial Grass' would be suitable.
I must say I am usually averse to anything artificial and envisage having to sell the benefits to customers. I think the term 'artificial' is not positive in terms of marketing. I have seen it referred to as 'Fake Grass' on one website.
Surely there must be a better name.
Not many responces we may be out of luck Wimbeldon Gardens
We install a few lawns every so often, it is getting much more frequent though. We tent to refer to it as an artificial lawn, and we seem to get almost all of the jobs we quote for but then I believe we are one of the only companies around here doing it!
We have a fairly small job (100m2) to do in the near future, but it doesn't come up that often for us.
It defiantly has a place in the environment for some.
If you have a heavily trafficked area that you want to retain as green all year round then this is defiantly one solution.
I considered adding it to my repertoire last year, but when doing online research about it, i wasnt impressed how the edges are secured down. Just about everything i read involves nailing or stapling the grass edges to timber battens, which doesnt exactly have great longevity in the ground, and id rather not get a call 3 or 4yrs later to say its deteriorating already.
Surely there must be a better way? i would of thought the artificial grass manufacturers could of come up with some thing by now!
The other way is to pour a concrete pad then you glue the lot down! Have a look in the old blogs (news) at Kerry Jacksons garden landscape where he was using tobermore slabs.
Here is the link to it!
http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/modern-garden-p...
I have wandered about the lifecycle of using timber for fixing and thought about recycled plastic/composite planks to secure to. But cost would be an issue when tendering against some using standard timber for fixing to.
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