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Instant turf in Melbourne's west

We strip the old lawn out, level and screed the base, and lay instant turf, across Melton and Melbourne's west in Victoria, Australia. Most of a new lawn is the preparation under it. The machine turns up with an operator on it, so it isn't dry hire.

  • Strip-out, base and laying as one job.
  • Old lawn and spoil carted away.
  • Finished the day the rolls go down.
A run of instant turf laid and finished hard up against a concrete path and a clipped hedge

The order a new lawn has to happen in

Turf is a perishable. It gets cut at the farm, stacked on a pallet and delivered on a day, and it starts going off from the moment it's rolled. That's why the ground has to be finished before the truck comes, not on the same morning.

So the strip-out and the levelling go first, and the turf gets ordered once we know the base will be ready for it. If the yard also needs a wall, a drain or a path, those go in before the rolls do. Book the turf first and you end up watering a pallet on the driveway.

Instant turf newly laid along a nature strip in Lalor, between the footpath and the kerb, with a worker in hi-vis coiling a hose further up

What the job involves

Ground prepped and turf laid, so your yard is finished the same day the rolls go down.

  • Old lawn and weeds stripped out by machine
  • Base levelled and screeded for an even lawn
  • Instant turf laid and trimmed to paths and beds
  • Spoil from the strip-out carted away
  • Falls kept so water runs off, not into the house
  • One job from strip-out to finished lawn

Questions

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Yes. New turf over old grass ends up patchy and uneven. The old lawn gets stripped out and carted off, then the base is levelled and screeded so the new rolls sit flat and knit down properly. That preparation is most of the job and most of what decides how the lawn looks in a year.
A graded yard under overcast sky, ready for the next stage

Send the size of your yard and what's on it now

Rough measurements and a photo of the existing lawn. We'll come back with what the strip-out and the turf take.

Get in touch

Tell us about the job and we'll sort it out

Give us a ring, or send the details through. Where the job is, what needs doing, and a photo if you've got one. We'll come back with what it takes and roughly what it costs.

Phone 0466 894 002 Email dirtmechanics@gmail.com
Based in Kurunjang, Melbourne's west
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