Artificial Grass

[Devjon]

We are in the situation that our daughter and her six month old daughter are now back living with us for the foreseeable future.
There is an extension at the back of the house with Patio doors that open onto a 4.5 x 3 metre patio with paving stones. The area is in reasonably good condition but the paving stones are showing their age.

I was thinking about covering the area with artificial grass and putting up some sort of fence around the perimeter as there is an 8" drop from the patio to the rest of the garden, the idea being that it will be a safe play area for our granddaughter when she starts crawling.
I've started looking online and there is a bewildering choice of products, underlays etc, I'd like to get a good quality product and I'm reasonably handy so doing it myself doesn't seem too onerous.

I'd be grateful for any advice from fellow LF's

Devjon

[Meatyfool]

We have artificial grass over a concrete base for our disabled son (he is 12). This is for a sensory experience rather as a safety covering. Whether you want to place anything under the grass is really a decision based on your family's "safety sense". Don't know how best to explain myself, but you sit somewhere on the spectrum characterised by the extremes of the farmer's child wallowing in mud and the anxious anti-bac carrying worrier! If you see what I mean.

Personally, the fence seems overkill, but you haven't mentioned what she would fall onto if she fell over. Grass?

Meatyfool..

[Devjon]

Many thanks Meatyfool,

We're more Farmers field than antiseptic hand wash

The Patio edge has a drop of about 8" down onto gravel, I thought a balustrade would prevent our granddaughter from perhaps taking a tumble.
Looking at the garden with fresh eyes it all looks a bit grey with paving stones and gravel leading down to the shed. There are borders of course but not enough green.

Ideally we'd like the artificial grass to look as natural as possible and as maintenance free as possible also.

[Maroochydore]

the idea being that it will be a safe play area for our granddaughter when she starts crawling.
....there is a bewildering choice of products, underlays etc,

For underlay I would deffo go for something of this standard http://neograss.co.uk/product/artificia ... -shockpad/

[Gaggsy]

On a projecct 15 months, our landscaping subcontractor provided Augusta artificial grass. 40 mm pile height with a tri-colour mix. 5 year guarantee.
Cost was about £75/m2 + VAT. That didn't include initial preparation of the surface but did include a layer of sand under the grass, weed membrane, tapes, nails, fixing etc.

This looks similar, has the same name but slightly different spec: https://www.artificialgrassdirect.co.uk ... usta-38mm/