Artifical Grass for play area

sunnyday1234

Hi All
We have our back yard tarred but would like to split off an area of about 50 sq meters as a play area for our son and put artificial grass on this with a sandpit etc. This area would be seperated from the rest of the yard by a kerb and a small dwarf wall. I looked online and it looks like 2k to buy the grass and 3k to put it down! 
I was looking at this more as a temporary solution for 10 years and after that just taking up the grass and paving the area and putting in a water fountain and raised beds etc. 
Can this artifical grass just be laid down ? Does anyone have any advice on how to reduce the installation cost from 3 grand ? ??

Thanks

littleoulme

we bought some artifical grass for our patio area as it's cracked and needs to be done from homestore and more - hubby put it down, it's been down a few months and it's well used in this weather. Just an option for you - it was easy enough for him to put down.

sunnyday1234

littleoulme wrote: »

we bought some artifical grass for our patio area as it's cracked and needs to be done from homestore and more - hubby put it down, it's been down a few months and it's well used in this weather. Just an option for you - it was easy enough for him to put down.

Thanks.

theyoungchap

Artificial grass is very temperamental though, if you don't get it right it will end up looking terrible, bubbly, etc as it shrinks and expands.
Would you not consider taking up the tar mac and putting a proper grass area? We did our back garden of approximately 30m2 and bar a bit of elbow grease, it didn't cost very much to do and we love it.

sunnyday1234

theyoungchap wrote: »

Artificial grass is very temperamental though, if you don't get it right it will end up looking terrible, bubbly, etc as it shrinks and expands.
Would you not consider taking up the tar mac and putting a proper grass area? We did our back garden of approximately 30m2 and bar a bit of elbow grease, it didn't cost very much to do and we love it.

no because we want this area to be a paved area in the future and taking up the tarmac would probably cost the same as putting down the fake grass

wexie

Is it the look you're after or just a suitable play area?

Could just buy rubber tiles/mats/chipping?

sunnyday1234

wexie wrote: »

Is it the look you're after or just a suitable play area?

Could just buy rubber tiles/mats/chipping?

Bit of both to be honest.

Hocus Focus

Like Wexie, my suggestion would be some kind of a rubber surface. The kind of surface they have in municipal playgrounds comes in different colours. No maintenance, no trying to make a fake material look like a natural one.