This week I have had a chap tidying up a back garden for a tenant. Untidy version below. Pretty much haunching in edgings and gravel, and a plan to put down some artificial grass for the new sproglet to play on in due course who is now a few weeks old.
Fake grass is going at the far side where the flat part of the pea shingle is. Prev. Tenant had laid pea shingle on their own initiative on polythene stuff (gah!).
My base sheet is heavy duty weed membrane.
My question is around the base needed for the artificial grass, and how to fix it down.
Will pea shingle be adequate, or do I really have to go for sand?
Is there some kind of underlay required?
And given that it is for a play area, are those hairpin type fixings acceptable if properly and fully inserted? That is what I have used for weed membranes, but I the would welcome some feedback.
Cheers
Ferdinand