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Lifting up webbing
RosemaryB
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I live in a tenement block and am keen to get a lawn going in the back court which is shared by 10 different flats.
The Council had many years ago put webbing down on top of a lawn that was there and then red stones/chips on top of that. The only thing that ever great through was weeds and these were easily destroyed
I am now wondering if taking up the webbing would be prohibitively expensive? And getting rid of the stones to try getting a lawn going.
Does anyone have experience of this/is it a specialised job??am I mad to even consider it...think webbing was put down about 30 years ago, a neighbour tells me.
Any thoughts much appreciated
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You could do it yourself. Talk to the neighbours and get a team going. If they don't agree, leave well alone.
We have recently moved to a new house and garden and have discovered that the previous owners put down a fibrous membrane on old ruins of a former farm building. They then covered it with fine, grey gravel except for the bits that have concrete blocks put in to hold climbing frame supports. It's all got to go so we can clear it to create a seating/eating/cooking area and build and plant a pergola all round. OH has done about 4m square so far. I suspect it will be more like 40m square by the time it's all cleared.
A nightmare he doesn't know about yet.
If yo do go ahead, pile the stones up in one place and offer them on freecycle or some such. Someone will want them. Then you have to be acble to get the webbing to a local dump and then you have all the soil prep to do to uncompact the soil and aerate and feed it to be in condition to grow a lawn and after that, someone has to lay turves or sow seed and then keep it cut regularly. Are you up for all that?
Great! Thanks for such a comprehensive response...now all I need to do is convince the neighbours!
Hi Rosemary,
Might be worth thinking about the type of grass you will need ..... if it's a courtyard between tall buildings it could be very shady and you might need to source seeds / turf for a shady area.
If it's very dark (or damp) then grass will not do well.
Just thought I'd mention this as it would be a shame to do all that work and for it to be disappointing.
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My first concern is that ,I'd imagine, you need to get the consent of all the neighbours who use this communal space ,and of the landlord before doing anything to it.