When you order your turf from TurfandStuff, you get the delivery on the weekday of your choice. You enter the required delivery date at step 4 of the checkout procedure. You can plan this up to 1 month ahead.

How to lay lawn turf:

If required, sprinkle pre-turfing fertiliser evenly over the area. Rake lightly to incorporate it and give a finished smooth surface. If you have used our rootzone topsoil you can skip this stage

Now lay the turf. You can either lay turf whilst standing on the raked ground or whilst standing on laid turf with the use of planks to prevent marking your new lawn. If you stand on the soil, give each row a light rake to remove your foot marks.

Start from the longest straight edge and roll out a turf. DO NOT stretch the tuf or you will get shrinkage later. If you are happy with the angle of your first turf, roll out another one. Push the starting edge of the second turf right against the first one making sure to butt all joins up tightly. Do not have lawn turf overlapping on top of previously laid turf. You can use the the rake to pull the turf close together.

You do not need to roll the turf at this stage except at the joins. However if you have a very light roller this can be used to help the turf to soil contact. Make sure and manually compress the very start (centre) of the roll of turf (where the harvesting machine started the turf) As it is always misshapen.

If you have any gaps created through poor cutting or uneven turf sizes, you should blend the edges closer together by manually stretching, almost tearing the edges. (like flattening out dough). The turf will contract some but you do improve the join. If the gaps are too big for this, use a sharp knife to cut slivers from your off cuts of turf and squeeze these into the gap. Remember wherever you do this type of join, will need extra water to help recovery.

Here's a secret used by turf laying contractors to increase the "wow" factor on a new lawn. Roll out your alternate rows of turf in opposite directions. This gives a good striped "just mown" look. Do not use small cuttings at the edges of the lawn. Use them in the middle.

It is best to sort your edges last, leave enough lawn turf overlapping your planned edge, that once you are done, you can lay a hose or rope around the edge and use an edging iron to shape your turf. This can be left fairly rough, you can smooth this off easier when the turf has rooted down in a couple of weeks.

When you are done, unless plenty of rain is forecast, you must irrigate the grass. If you can't apply water due to hosepipe bans or water meters, then leave lawn turf laying to the cooler seasons. This must be a very good watering, it may take several hours of sprinkler to put on enough. This should be repeated regularly for 1 month.