Lawn repair after being driven upon.

[ACB312]

I had some work done on my roof windows (3) that necessitated the use of a very heavy cherry-picker. I knew it would leave tracks on my lawn but they turned out to be much deeper than I anticipated - nearly 6 inches in places. Any thoughts on the best way to repair the lawn. It is on very sandy soil. Thanks, Andy.

[Jugglering]

Either physically scrape the soil back into the gaps left by the tracks or fill them with topsoil.. then sprinkle grass seed over and water well. If you do go with the scraping back, you might want to shove a fork into the compressed soil first to add to the drainage.

[ACB312]

Thankyou Jugglering. I was thinking along these lines but I'll need to get more topsoil to fill the troughs. Cheers, Andy

[landscaper2]

I'd go along with the previous answer. Have you paid the full amount to the contractor? If not hold back money for reinstatement costs. Any contractor worth his salt would either protect the lawn or reinstate at his cost. If he had knocked over your front wall you would expect it to be put right, so why not the lawn?

[ACB312]

Thanks for reply. I was fully aware that the grass would be damaged and balanced the damage against the cost of scaffolding which would have made the cost of the whole job prohibitve. So, I've no problem with the guys who did the work - in fact they excelled themselves with the extra couple of jobs they did with the cherry picker on hand and saved me a whole lot of work with my own basic scaffolding. The grass is not overly important but I don't have the time or inclination to put too much more time into it. Cheers, Andy