Before & After Artificial Grass Transformations | PrimeTurf
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Before & after

Every photograph on this page was taken on a PrimeTurf site by our own team. Where we can't confirm a detail — a suburb, a size, a date — we simply don't state it.

The change

Same garden, a few days apart

Bare soil, worn patches and dust become a lawn that stays green through a Highveld winter and a dry spell alike.

A garden lawn finished in artificial grass, with the inset photograph showing the same area as bare soil before installation

Garden lawn replacement

Bare, dug-over soil between established beds, finished as a level lawn running the length of the garden.

A painted hopscotch grid on artificial grass, with the inset photograph showing the same area as bare sand before installation

Play area with painted hopscotch

A worn sand patch beside picnic tables, turfed and then hand-painted with a numbered hopscotch grid.

Before and after: a narrow side passage of bare soil and weeds beside brick paving, finished with artificial grass

Side passage

Weeds and bare soil along a paved passage, replaced with a clean strip of turf.

Before and after: a bare-soil dog run beside a timber kennel, finished with 30mm Spring artificial grass

Dog run

Bare soil and a loose offcut beside the kennel, replaced with a level lawn.

A finished artificial lawn beside a brick home and cycad, with an inset photograph of the patchy lawn before installation

Front lawn

A thin, patchy lawn replaced with an even green one right up to the paving.

Before and after: a cleared, rubble-strewn side garden finished as an artificial lawn with putting cups

Side garden with putting cups

A cleared, rubble-strewn strip turned into a lawn with two practice holes.

Before and after: bare compacted ground beside a pool finished as an artificial lawn

Poolside lawn

Bare, compacted ground around a pool finished as a level lawn.

Before and after: a worn natural lawn being lifted, then the finished artificial lawn with three dogs on it

Pet-friendly lawn

A worn natural lawn lifted and replaced — the dogs approved.

Before and after: a compacted soil base being rolled, then a finished green and blue artificial turf play track

Play track

A rolled, compacted base finished as a green-and-blue turf track.

Before and after: an excavated courtyard beside a colonnade finished with artificial grass

Courtyard beside a colonnade

An excavated courtyard finished flush with the surrounding brick edging.

The before image is shown inset on each photograph, exactly as our installers recorded it on site.

One project, start to finish

A putting green and entertainment area, stage by stage

The same property photographed through the build — excavation and compaction, turf laid and brushed, then the finished green with its lighting on. Captions describe only what is visible in each frame.

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Compacted stone base being prepared with a plate compactor inside a brick edge, house in the background Stage 01
Excavated area brought to level and compacted inside the new brick edge, with drainage laid in.
A PrimeTurf installer power-brushing silica infill into a newly laid putting green Stage 02
Turf laid, seamed and then power-brushed so the infill settles evenly through the pile.
Completed artificial putting green with five flagged holes, bordered by brick paving and a swimming pool Stage 03
The finished green in daylight — five cups, a contoured fringe and a brick-paved surround.
The same putting green at dusk with garden lighting on, pergola bar and pool alongside Stage 04
The same green at dusk with the garden lighting on and the pergola bar in use.
Artificial hedge panels forming a screen wall above face-brick steps on the same property Detail
Artificial hedging used as a screen above the new steps, on the same property.

Up close

What it looks like from a metre away

Edges against paving and planting, pile depth in cross-section, and how the turf sits once the furniture goes back on it.

Close-up cross-section of artificial grass showing green blades and brown thatch layer
Pile in cross-section — green blades over a curled brown thatch that holds them upright.
Artificial grass meeting a spekboom groundcover planting
A soft edge where the turf meets spekboom groundcover.
Artificial grass beside a concrete edging strip with flowering bulbine above it
Cut tight to a concrete edging strip below flowering bulbine.
Flowering bulbine stems hanging over artificial grass
Planting allowed to spill over the turf rather than be trimmed back off it.
Low-angle view along an artificial grass edge against a concrete kerb, school buildings behind
Eye-level along the edge, where pile height and kerb line show up most.
An outdoor table and green chair set up on artificial grass with a platter and glasses
Furniture back on the lawn — no indentation, no bare tracks underneath.

Straight from site

We post new work as we finish it

Our Facebook page is where the newest gardens, progress shots and short clips go up first — usually the same week the team packs up.

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Before and after: a narrow side passage of bare soil and weeds beside brick paving, finished with artificial grass Before and after: a bare-soil dog run beside a timber kennel, finished with 30mm Spring artificial grass A finished artificial lawn beside a brick home and cycad, with an inset photograph of the patchy lawn before installation

Photographs from our own installations, as posted on our Facebook page.

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