We've just had a plastic lawn put in. AMA

[Imdunfer]

As title.

If you're going to raise climate issues please make sure you have your facts right before you post. There is a lot of incorrect PR and social media comment about plastic turf going around at the moment.

I would not keep a rabbit on it, those droppings would be really bad news, before you even think about it not being able to nibble it.

A tip for getting rid of ants in a lawn is to put a bucket over the ants net on a hot summer evening. When you come down in the morning a small army of ants will have gathered in the bottom (or top as it's upside down) of the bucket.

Carefully turn the bucket over and empty the bucket somewhere you see fit. Keep doing it. They get fed up pretty quickly.

Not to mention the nauseating stench when all the local cats pee on it - it’s eye watering in hot weather ( my neighbours have just ripped theirs up for precisely this reason, you could smell it from 20 yards away)

The AMA is about the grass, not a free pass to insult someone's home decor choices they may or may not have. Trying to use 'ask me anything' to justify personal snobbery is a massive reach. You're of course allowed not to like the grass, but asking about imaginary furniture was crass.

I would have worried for the rabbit when the grass got hot.

Poor little chap.

I did not ask anyone not to refer to carbon footprints.

My husband has just informed me that he walked on the grass in his socks on the hottest day of the week last week, 35c here, and could not tell the difference between it and how the grass used to be. He says it emphatically was not too hot to walk on and would not have burnt a child or a dog.

My cat would not allow another cat in her garden, but there are very few free range cats in this area, to many of them die on the roads.

I will test the heat off it myself next time the weather hots up.

I guess so yes. The male owner of the rabbit was devastated as he let the rabbit into the garden in daytime and the foxes just happened to be around. So sad. When I had a rabbit and guinea pig as a child they had a chicken wire enclosure for the grass but under a very shady area in the garden.

If your garden is a shady as you describe OP the heat problem issue probably isn't going to be a problem there.

I wish I could have had the opportunity to get a lawn or pretty alternative going in your yard. I love a challenge.

Given its low use, 20 years minimum, we'll probably be dead. I'm aware of 12 year old installations that still look almost new.

When it has to be scrapped it will probably fuel an incinerator driven power plant with carbon capture on it. If someone wants to replace it with turf that will be a lot easier than replacing the "lawn" that was there.

But just because cars tyres etc do that does not mean it makes no difference to add to the micro plastic issue by removing something natural and replacing it with plastic.

People keep trotting this argument out but one does not preclude the other. 🙄

OP do you have any health concerns for your children being exposed to the chemicals on it?

So why the focus on plastic grass then? Why not ban all plastic clothing? Why not ban flights abroad for foreign holidays?

It’s nothing more than snobbery and an opportunity to virtue signal.

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Their drainage is wrong.

But what if everyone took your attitude?

The irony is staggering isn't it?

This is absolutely a thing. Bizarre that you find it funny you are obviously unaware of this potential issue.

Judging from this thread, that seems rather unlikely.

It devalues property, as people want to remove it and replace it.

Do you have the same concerns about your children wearing plastic clothes?

I don't have any children. If I did there are other things I would worry about a lot more than playing on fake grass in the garden, especially when their sports pitches at school are very likely to be made with it.

Our garden fitters came to us after finishing a job at a local primary school.