Solving the New Build Garden Nightmare: The Benefits of Artificial Grass and Expert Groundwork.
🏡 Solving the New Build Garden Nightmare: The Benefits of Artificial Grass and Expert Groundwork.
Buying a new build home is exciting—shiny fixtures, fresh paint, and a brand new start. However, many new homeowners quickly find that one area lets the property down: the garden.
Often laid with minimal topsoil over heavily compacted construction debris and clay, the standard new build lawn quickly becomes a source of frustration. It’s either waterlogged, full of weeds, or patchy and thin.
The solution? A professionally installed artificial lawn, backed by years of groundwork and civils engineering expertise.
🌱 Benefit 1: Say Goodbye to Patchy Grass and Muddy Mess.
New build lawns rarely survive their first winter intact. The poor soil structure, combined with heavy foot traffic, results in a frustrating cycle: bare patches, weeds, and mud being trailed into your pristine new home.
Artificial grass offers an immediate and permanent remedy.
- Year-Round Perfection: Enjoy a vibrant, perfectly manicured lawn 365 days a year, regardless of sun, shade, or heavy rainfall.
- Minimal Maintenance: No more weekend mowing, weeding, or expensive fertilisers.
- Durability: Unlike natural turf, artificial grass stands up to children, pets, and outdoor furniture without thinning or developing muddy tracks.
🌧️ Benefit 2: Superior Drainage (Crucial for New Builds)
This is perhaps the most critical benefit for new build gardens. The sub-base beneath your artificial grass is far more permeable than the compacted clay often found in development sites.
A standard artificial grass installation involves removing the existing poorly-draining top layer and replacing it with an MOT Type 1 or granite dust sub-base. This creates a highly porous layer that allows water to drain effectively.
For sites that suffer from severe waterlogging, we go a step further:
Quality landscapers can integrate soakaways beneath the surface. These systems are designed to collect and slowly disperse large volumes of surface water, providing a robust, long-term solution that prevents ponding and keeps your garden usable even after heavy downpours.
🚧 Specialised Groundwork: Fixing the Unfixable
Standard installations work for standard gardens, but what if your new build garden is a genuine "nightmare"?Â
You needs a landscaper that understands that some plots are built on challenging ground that is prone to movement, sinking, or remains perpetually waterlogged.
This is where civils engineering experience becomes invaluable.
If your ground is sinking, extremely wet or soft, groundworkers will remove the existing substrate and build it up using geogrids, membrane and MOT to create a solid, structurally sound foundation with superior drainage properties for your patio or artificial grass.
Your garden should treat the ground like a miniature road or highway project, ensuring the base is robust enough to last for decades. Using high-grade materials like geogrids to stabilise the sub-base and MOT Type 1 to create the structural layer, by doing so they eliminate the risk of future sinking and significantly improve subterranean water flow.
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đź“ž Stop the Nightmare: Call the Experts
Many landscape companies can lay artificial turf. However, very few possess the technical knowledge to engineer a long-term solution for problematic new build ground.
If you are having a nightmare with your new build garden, struggling with poor drainage, perpetual mud, or sinking ground, then give us a call today and let us turn your patch of clay into a perfect, low-maintenance outdoor space.
