Anybody have artificial grass?

[RCCrawler]

Must have 800 sq ft minimum of grass

Be careful, about 5 years ago I had a friend that did his front yard in the stuff and the city of Thornton made him remove it. He fought it for months, even went to several city council meetings fighting it and in the end was forced to remove it.

Make de sure that before you make the investment you have approval for anyone and everyone that might be involved.

[KS63]

We put it in our backyard because of the ease of maintenance for me. It's not cheap depending if you want the stereotypical plastic stuff or turf that looks legit like what we have. It's pet friendly and I wash it down with a cleaner from Petco. We love it and so does my back.

[Irving]

We put it in our backyard because of the ease of maintenance for me. It's not cheap depending if you want the stereotypical plastic stuff or turf that looks legit like what we have. It's pet friendly and I wash it down with a cleaner from Petco. We love it and so does my back.

Do you have a photo? I've only ever seen the cheap stuff that people used to put on back patios.

[Great-Kazoo]

Be careful, about 5 years ago I had a friend that did his front yard in the stuff and the city of Thornton made him remove it. He fought it for months, even went to several city council meetings fighting it and in the end was forced to remove it.

Make de sure that before you make the investment you have approval for anyone and everyone that might be involved.

Don't forget to get everything in writing

[KS63]

Do you have a photo? I've only ever seen the cheap stuff that people used to put on back patios.

I'll take one after work if I remember. We had to submit a sample to the HOA for approval and even they couldn't believe it was fake. Ours even has the tan colored dead clippings near the base.

[sniper7]

I'll take one after work if I remember. We had to submit a sample to the HOA for approval and even they couldn't believe it was fake. Ours even has the tan colored dead clippings near the base.

Yep this is the stuff I've been looking at. Not cheap, but when you factor in a new house and having to dig trenches, put in sprinkler lines, top soil, sod, watering, etc. then watering, mowing, trimming, time...etc. all of a sudden it is very justifiable. And it looks good all the time.

[newracer]

I probably have about 1000 sf of sod at my house that I just put in about 2 years ago. I did the sprinkler system myself, ~$1200 in parts. Paid a company to prep the soil, final grade and lay the sod ~$900.

[Dave_L]

Yep this is the stuff I've been looking at. Not cheap, but when you factor in a new house and having to dig trenches, put in sprinkler lines, top soil, sod, watering, etc. then watering, mowing, trimming, time...etc. all of a sudden it is very justifiable. And it looks good all the time.

Just moved into a new home and yeah, eff doing all that yard stuff. We don't have a big yard so I opted to pay someone. Glad I did too because the dirt was so hard that he had to dig all the trenches by hand with a pick ax. 1 day was spent digging. No thanks. But it was sub $5k for everything. Sprinklers, drip systems, bushes, trees, sod, rock, etc. I don't think it was a bad deal and best part was being able to not waste my weekends digging.

[Irving]

I'm starting to understand. I recently spent a few weeks removing the rest of every bush, shrub, small tree from our yard both front and back. Hours sweating and breaking shovels, and it's still not finished.

[KS63]

Bad part for me was I had nothing resembling a yard and I tilled, augmented the soil, graded, leveled, trenched and installed the sprinkler system and laid the sod by myself. That was 10yrs ago and there's no way I could do that now without a trip to the ER. Unfortunately, with our arid climate and watering restrictions, my yard succumbed to weeds and we then installed artificial turf. Here's some pics. Two are the Artificial and the others are real Kentucky Bluegrass.