Great work in ripping up the existing lawn! Roughly how long would you say it took you to do the work?

I've just re-seeded and re-soiled all the spotty areas on my lawn on Sat when it was dry. IIRC, there should be some drizzles this week, so I am hoping the rain will take care of the watering for me.

Fingers cross on how that'll turn out...

Good luck with the seeding and grading!

Time wise it wasn't too bad - I think it was probably 10-12 hours of labour to rip it out between my dad and I and then we hired a guy to haul it away for $200 (he claims it ended up weighing about 500kg which seems high).

It took some trial and error to figure out what the best way was to rip it out - as the sod was only 3.5 years old the netting from it was still there in some places so I started with just yanking by hand before progressing to a shovel then a pick axe as the roots got deeper and deeper (making yanking by hand too hard).

So the good weather meant I could finish the job finally. Tilled the yard to facilitate fixing the soil conditions (lime, lots of fertiliser), dug out a trench to put in a sprinkler system (found a huge rock while doing it too), ordered in 4 yards of top dressing (about 4000-5000lbs) that I had to cart to the back one load at a time and then redistribute and wrapped up yesterday with seed, grub killer, and more fertiliser.

The sprinkler works pretty well though I just barely get to the back left corner (testing didn't show this problem) - my house doesn't flow a lot of water (only 5GPM which is less than the 6GPM that Rainbird says is the minimum) so I'll probably just live with it as is - I otherwise would have to dig up the sprinkler and move it out another foot. I got a timer off Amazon and am watering every 6 hours for now.

Fingers crossed now that we'll have a functioning lawn come summer time.

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I wish I had seen this thread earlier but I am also redoing our front lawn this year.

The old lawn wasn't terrible but it was a mix of grass, weeds and moss and I thought having a nice thick lawn would be an improvement.

I've been leaning on my dad's advice for this. Our method is not very complicated. Time will tell how successful this becomes.

Step 1 - Apply some weed killer and mossout to burn off as much weed/moss as possible.

Step 2 - Power rake the whole thing, then clean off the clippings.

Step 3 - Applied new soil on top. Ordered a couple yards from headwater. Shared with the neighbours.

Step 4 - Seed with Scott's Turf builder. Then apply Scott's lawn starter.

Step 5 - Water 2x per day. Always keep the soil wet.

Step 6 - Cross fingers and toes. If this fails, wife will be upset.

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Fuck got me wanting that watering system now even though typically those things are always disasters…

How do you purge it? Your lines are above the frost line so that shits gonna freeze if there’s any water left over. Just with compressed air or?

Nice work the base looks great now though no reason shouldn’t turn into a nice lawn by next summer