So you want to use fake grass for your property, but don't want to pay for the installation upfront? Today, we will teach you how to install fake grass within your budget and make adjustments along the route to reduce installation costs. But don’t get me wrong: to make this work go smoothly, you need to be willing to do it yourself, invest a lot of time and energy, and solve problems in the process. In addition, while many of the solutions listed below will reduce your costs, they will also increase the amount of labor you must perform yourself. Even if you are helpful, you will often use hand tools such as shovel and carry up to 50 pounds. Is this the challenge you are looking for? let's start!
Almost every installation has four components, and these components can be changed to minimize the cost of installing cheap artificial grass without compromising the functionality or service life of the product. They are as follows:
After you dig a few inches and install the turf, the subbase will reach where your natural turf is. Its main purpose is to prevent the natural expansion and contraction of the native soil in the yard from damaging the lawn and causing wrinkles.
This is one of three things in most professional installations:
Due to its greater drainage capacity and ability to provide a continuous horizontal surface, decomposed granite is considered the best of the three. Certain types of facilities, such as Ruo Ling, require a higher level of decomposed granite subbase to function and continue.
In most cases, a small amount of decomposed granite can provide good performance and longevity for artificial grass. In fact, only the top few inches of the subbase should contain decomposed granite for optimal water flow and performance. This means you can cover most of the excavation space with a low-cost Class II or CMB, and then fill it with several layers of decomposed granite. This will significantly reduce costs while producing reasonable results. Having said that, in some specific installations, we never recommend reducing the decomposed granite subbase. If you have a lot of rain in your yard or already have drainage problems, this technique is unlikely to be successful.
2. Save resources by reducing waste generation
Unless your installation area is the exact shape and size of a roll of turf, it is almost impossible to use up all the grass you use in your installation. Most likely, you have to cut and stitch together several pieces of grass, and some grass will be thrown. The key is to determine how to maximize the use of 13-foot or 15-foot wide turf rolls. One method is to ignore the grain orientation. Artificial grass grain orientation is one of the main reasons for discarding grass. The texture orientation is the main direction in which the blades of grass point.
3. Tips for seaming technology
As mentioned earlier, when installing artificial grass, you will most likely have to cut and stitch together various turf. In most cases, this is done with suture tape, suture glue and nails. This method is the safest and most trustworthy, but it is also the most expensive. Although the cost of suture tape and glue may be insignificant for small installations, for larger installations, it may increase rapidly.
What are the low-cost alternatives? Just use a lot of nails. For some settings, this is a perfectly acceptable stitching procedure, although it is not that safe. If your lawn does not have a lot of traffic, we only advocate this strategy. With the passage of time and the increase in foot activity, the nails will and will become loose. If you have a huge installation area and don't see much foot movement, then a box or two affordable 5-inch nails will suffice.
When it comes to professional tools for placing artificial grass, there are many possibilities. Professional installers can use a large number of tools to speed up the installation process. However, we recommend that you abandon expensive equipment and use hand tools to get back to the basics. Facts have proved that almost everything that electric tools can do can also be done with simple hand tools. Use hoe instead of lawn mower, manual compactor instead of flat compactor, push broom instead of electric broom, and carpet knife instead of lawn mower. Get ready to sweat and apply some major elbow grease!
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