Yes Mike I'm looking at you
Ok so we are about to put in an order for our turf and I need to know the amount we need.
The area of our backyard is 8m (deep) x 15.24m (long) so = ~122sqm
BUT not all of that will be grass. We want to put a garden bed around the 2 sides and across the back. The garden bed will be used to put Pittosporums (or similar screening) plant in it - I was thinking of having it about 600mm deep. So now that brings the backyard measurements to 7.4m deep x 14.64m wide = ~111sqm
BUT we are also putting down a rather large cubby - which is elevated with a sandpit underneath. The cubby itself is 2.4m wide x 2.5m deep, it also has a 3.1m slide coming off it at either the front or side depending on which way we plan to go....
Now the question is do we just put grass where the cubby will go and then just built the cubby over it/sit the sandpit on top of it OR do we build a little frame/low fence like a garden bed around it and fill it with something soft thus reducing the size of grass needed again?
If we decided to put the slide off the side of the cubby I'm thinking we might need about 6m in length x 3m deep for the little fence around the cubby, so that takes another 18m2 of the amount of grass we need if I am doing my math correctly....
Meaning instead of ordering 122sqm of grass I will only need about 93sqm of grass for the back...this is a saving of a few hundred but I don't know if it is worth it...or should I just grass the whole area first then build the cubby on top? I obviously have NO idea and am probably making little to NO sense