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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!
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Originally Posted by Traum Great work in ripping up the existing lawn! Roughly how long would you say it took you to do the work? | 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).
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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.
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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
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You blow them out with a big air compressor at the fitting on the side of the house. Either DIY or there's loads of people who will come around and do it fairly cheap.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer 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? | There's a drain at the end of the line and with the slope of my yard I think that even if I don't do anything for it that it'll dry out by the time frost season shows up.
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I commend you guys for the work you did on your lawns. I also redid my lawn from scratch 2 years ago, but I couldn't commit to the work it takes to keep it perfect so I just mow everything down now.
Once or twice a year i go through and rip out the dandelions, but my neighbours have so many other random ass weeds that fly over like spanish bluebells, creeping buttercup, horsetail, birdseye pearlwort, bindweed...
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