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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:29 pm
by msh paving
too many clods,wheres his rake.....just roll out and leave it?, lets your standards down Giles MSH 
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:32 pm
by Pablo
dig dug dan wrote:i never see the point of laying turf to get instant stripes. its gone in a couple of days!
did the spring tine rake break?
It's purely to impress the clients they go to work and the place is a state they come home and it's transformed and they always love it. Those ally rakes are good for destoning but rubbish for raking a nice even tilth and won't dress the bedding sand.
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:37 pm
by msh paving
Pablo wrote:Those ally rakes are good for destoning but rubbish for raking a nice even tilth and won't dress the bedding sand.
very true pablo,a standard rake is needed to tilth up,a hay rake is what it says it is MSH
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:53 pm
by dig dug dan
a fine tined rake is whats needed. those landscape rakes are not for preping ground for turfing
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:04 pm
by GB_Groundworks
ill go back in a few months get some pics see what its like, i think it'll be fine. if the clients not happy then i guess him and the builder are gonna have to sort it out and ill do what ever they decide.
end of the day its a lawn, it'll be reet.
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:19 pm
by dig dug dan
if the clients not happy then i guess him and the builder are gonna have to sort it out
surely if the client is not happy then the builder who employed you would ask you to rectify?
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:39 pm
by GB_Groundworks
yeah but the builder who employed me said get it done as cheap as possible, and i know it'll be fine, i'll call by and see the home owner after the bank holiday.
there a difference to putting back grass that got ruined by the building work, and being hired to lay a perfect lawn. if id been hired by the home owner id have given him the options, the builder as it was out of his profit on the extension and patio wanted it done as efficiently as possible. he asked if i could seed it...
we are laying artifical grass on the big house, gonna get 20m2 for rd my lads tree house as its always cut up in winter
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:28 pm
by haggistini
rolling it in stripes seperates the seperates the wheat from the chaff IYKWIM 
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:31 pm
by haggistini
i have used stringlines in the past on turf ocd thead me thinks :p
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:37 pm
by mickg
ha ha if you think a string line is OCD haggi I walk the sandy loam in then screed flat using my aluminium straight edge before I lay the turf in a straight line and with stripes
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:04 pm
by haggistini
admit i screeded off edges before too dont think its ocd just the never ending quest for perfection
:laugh:
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:13 pm
by haggistini
there she is
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 12:49 am
by lutonlagerlout
should we break a butterfly on a wheel?
LLL :;):
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 4:51 am
by mickg
superb job haggi that's exactly the way I lay turf but I think your OCD might be slacking a bit by not putting the pots in colour spectrum order 
nothing wrong with attention to detail Tony and getting personal satisfaction from your work
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:04 am
by mickg
nice bit of kit there Giles, my last job which was a similar size to your extension we used wheel barrows and a couple of taper mouth shovels :;):