Scarifying-have I ruined the grass?

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DH are useless in the garden, pretty much only manage to cut the grass and nothing else!
Our lawn is full of thatch so I decided today was the day to scarify it. Only decided to look into it after it had all been raked out, and everything is saying to only do it April and September, to seed it afterwards and soak it.
The only thing guaranteed is that it will get watered.
Have I ruined the grass?

No, it'll be fine. Grass is v resilient. It might take a while to recover but water it well over the next few days/weeks and it'll be grand.

Phew! DH was stressing me out.
It's been lightly watered as we're forecast a downpour. Do you know if I should seed it, or just wait it out and do it properly in September.

Don't need to seed it unless there are bald patches.

Some lawn feed will help and if we have a few dry days, a good soaking of an evening.

And yeah, scarifying is a winter job. Too damned warm to do it this time of year anyway!

Thank you. We do have feed stuff to go on tomorrow/Thursday.
I won't make that mistake again, it was hard going (its not particularly hot here) and my arms are going to ache tomorrow.

Years ago I scarified a lawn around this time of year, cleared out 30(!!!) bin bags of moss, put feed 'n' weed on it & went away for a month. The lawn looked terrible a bare patches everywhere (it had been mostly moss) Came back to find a forest of lush grass about 2 feet high. So I'm sure you're will be fine if kept watered and given a bit of lawn feed.

That sounds promising! It doesn't look too bad today after being rained on, a bit patchy but it wasn't too heavily raked so still some rubbish in there, feed going on tonight so fingers crossed.
Determined to make it nice and put the time in to looking after it although my arms and back are so sore, we'll be investing in a motorised scarifier!