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Lawn water logged.
gazwalker91
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Hello, there is probably a thread some where about this but I can't find it 
. Anyway ive bought a house been in it a couple of months and my back lawn is water logged and boggy. I want to drain it and re turf it, would I be better of getting as much soil up as I can and putting fresh soil down? Or pricking it and putting new turf on top? thanks Gaz.
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What Part off the UK are you, parts have had a lot of water on them this winter and a lot will be waterlogged. Keep off it for a month, get through March and into April then have a good look at it. The usual way is to dig a small hole and see if it is full or fills with water in a dry period.
If it does need drainage a big job depending on how you decide to do it, then you may need to raise the lawn a bit, you will need to remove the grass to drain but digging over what is under the grass then putting another layer of fresh soil on that before laying your new lawn should help.
As I said leave it, see if it dries out and early spring would be the best time to start work they do not call it the growing season for nothing. Hope this helps but come back if you need to.
Frank.
Frank is right. There are several threads on the site about this at the moment not all obvious from titles. If you look at them you will find it seems Lawns old and new suffer from poor drainage either because of age & compaction or if new because people (builders especially) do not do the correct preparation at the beginning.
I have mentioned this on other threads but http://www.lawnsmith.co.uk/ have a wealth of information on their site. I have no connection with them but I found their site very useful when I was studying for the RHS exams & I have bought some lawn feed from them.