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Lawn imaging
leighv
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Hi all,
Long story short, my new build house had a lawn laid before I moved in. But neighbours that didn't go for this option and were going to do it themselves have found boulders, metal scaffold brackets, etc, etc. This doesn't inspire confidence especially as the lawn is about as flat as the sea in a force 10.....
Any ideas/services that I could use that would build an image of what is below the turf?
Many thanks.
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Sorry, purely a mental image after serious probing with a long-tined fork! Know anyone does metal detecting? Only problem there is that the detector will signal whatever the size of the object, be it rare coin worth a fortune (good luck!) or old wheelbarrow buried by the builders!
Builders are rarely gardeners. You have three options.
1. Import tons of topsoil to give you 18 inches of soil on which to lay a lawn.
2. Get a mini digger in, remove the top 18 inches of soil and rubbish then import topsoil.
3. Hand dig and remove all the rubbish incorporating farm yard manure and topsoil into the stuff that's left.
All three are going to cost money, and I'm sorry but if your'e buying a new property, your'e not just paying for the bricks and mortar, your'e paying for the land as well, as such the builders have in my opinion a legal responsibility to leave you something which is of a reasonable quality, just like anything else you buy.
If purchasers of new property got together a civil action would be a feasible proposition.
I think builders get away with murder when selling new houses, and as usual some are better than others. If all the new residents complained as one then they would have to listen.
It's amazing what bad publicity can do to get people moving and doing something.
Maybe you should all take a stand.
Sadly it isn't just new builds; I have worked on building sites for decades and frequently seen builders ruin a garden; sometimes in a matter of hours, just by mixing concrete without putting down a tarp and putting scaffold poles and planks on top of flower beds.
But there are tidy builders who respect people's spaces, though I don't think that happens on new builds; it's all about the money and burying rubbish is cheaper than a skip.
I wonder if builders complain about gardeners???
The lawn is likely to be built of rotavated soils with sand on top of that to level it. If it is lumpy then you can cut open the turf and flatten it and or raise the level of the dips by adding soil then re-seeding.