So, you have finally managed to choose the best artificial grass for your garden, and now you need to measure your lawn to see how much you will need.
If you intend to install your own artificial grass, then it’s vital you calculate accurately how much artificial grass you need so you can order enough to cover your lawn.
Understandably it can be a little daunting if you have never done it before.
There are many things to take into consideration and it is easy to measure your lawn incorrectly.
To help you avoid the pitfalls and calculate exactly how much artificial grass you’ll need to complete your project, we’ll walk you through the process step by step, showing you a basic example along the way.
But before we start with the step-by-step guide, there are certain things that you’ll need to bear in mind when measuring your lawn.
It’s very important to read these tips before attempting to measure your lawn. They will save you time in the long run and ensure that the process is as stress-free as possible.
6 Vitally Important Measuring Tips
1. Rolls are 4m and 2m in width, and up to 25m in length
When measuring your lawn, always bear in mind that we supply our artificial grass in rolls of 4m and 2m wide.
We can cut anything up to 25m in length, to the nearest 100mm, depending on how much you need.
When measuring your lawn, measure both the width and the length, and calculate the best way to lay your grass in order to minimise wastage.
2. Always, always measure both the widest and the longest points of your lawn
When measuring your lawn, be sure to measure both the widest and the longest points to see whether you’ll need more than one roll of artificial turf.
For lawns that are curved, this tip is especially important.
If you’ll need to use, say, two rolls side-by-side to cover the width, mark out where your join will lie and then measure the length for each roll. Unless your garden has perfect 90-degree corners, then even if it’s roughly square or oblong, the chances are one roll will need to be a little longer than the other.
3. Consider extending beds to minimise wastage
Say your lawn measures 4.2m x 4.2m; the only way to cover this area would be to order 2 rolls of artificial grass, one measuring 4m x 4.2m and the other measuring 2m x 4.2m.
This would result in approximately 7.5m2 of wastage.
Therefore, you’d save a significant amount of money by extending or creating a plant bed along one edge, to reduce one of the measurements to 4m. That way you’d need just one 4m wide roll, 4.2m long.
Bonus Tip: to create a low maintenance plant bed, lay some slate or decorative stone on top of weed membrane. You can also put plant pots on top to add in some green.
4. Allow 100mm at either end of each roll, to allow for cutting and errors.
After you have measured your lawn and calculated how long your rolls need to be, you’ll need to add an additional 100mm of grass at each end to allow for cutting and measuring errors.
We can cut our grass to the nearest 100mm and we strongly advise adding 100mm to each end of the artificial grass so if you make a mistake with cutting, you should still have enough for another attempt at cutting it in.
It also allows a little room for measuring errors.
As an example, if your lawn measures 6m x 6m, order 2 rolls, one measuring 2m x 6.2m, and the other, 4m x 6.2m.
You don’t need to allow any additional for the width as our 4m and 2m wide rolls are in actual fact 4.1m and 2.05m, which allows for trimming 3 stitches off the artificial grass to form an invisible join.
5. Consider the weight of the grass
When ordering artificial grass, always consider the weight of the rolls.
Rather than ordering a 4m x 10m roll of grass, you may find it easier to order 2 rolls of 2m x 10m, as they will be much lighter to carry.
Alternatively, you might be better off laying your grass across your lawn rather than up and down it, or vice versa, to enable the use of smaller, lighter rolls.
Of course, it depends on the weight of the artificial grass, but as a general rule, the most two men can lift together is about 30m2 of grass on one roll.
Any more than that and you’d need a third helper or a carpet barrow to lift your grass into position.
6. Consider which way the pile direction will face
When you look closely at artificial grass, you’ll notice that it has a slight pile direction. This is true of all artificial grass, regardless of quality.
This is important to remember for two reasons.
Firstly, in an ideal world, the pile of your artificial grass will be facing towards the angle you’ll be viewing it from the most, i.e. you’ll be looking into the pile.
This is generally considered to be the most aesthetically pleasing angle and it usually means the pile faces towards your house and/or patio area.
Secondly, when measuring your lawn you’ll need to remember that if you need to use more than one roll of artificial grass, both pieces will need to be facing in the same direction to form an invisible join.
If the pile direction isn’t facing the same way on both pieces of grass, each roll will appear to be a slightly different colour.
This is extremely important to remember if you are going to be using offcuts to fill in certain areas of your lawn.
Therefore, always bear in mind the pile direction when measuring your lawn.
Post time: Sep-23-2024
