Sub-contractor left a 3-foot wide hole in my lawn filled with sand. Called parent contractor to ask that this be remedied. Sub-contractor returned today cursing and grumping about "wasting sod on a shit lawn" in my security camera feeds. They're not all wrong – wife allows a "natural" lawn for the first few weeks of spring for the bugs, but even her mishmash of vegetation looked awful with a sand-filled hole in the middle.
Anyway, is it usual to plop a tiny sod piece in the middle of a pile of dirt and sprinkle grass seed around it? Cuz back in my landscaping youth, albeit some time ago, we just cut out lawn wedges to match our sod wedges and literally never did anything but place sod edge-to-edge with living grass.
Am I crazy, or is this some master class malicious compliance?
by NotBrokenItsAdvanced
6 Comments
Master-Class Jerkism, is what it is!
Honestly given how the rest of the lawn looks i’m not sure it’s worth getting upset about. it isn’t a terrible job, particularly if he seeded it too… It’s not like they would always have spare pieces of sod matching that size hole just sitting around.
I’ve found that laying no seed hay or even grass clippings over the seeded bare area really helps the germination. It doesn’t dry out as fast, and the birds don’t eat it all.
It’s malicious, but it’s not compliance, cos he hasn’t fixed it
Where i’m from reinstatement is topsoil with grass seed, if removing concrete we have to remove it down to 100mm (4 inches) top up with soil and seed it.
send them and the contractor who hired them the video of them smack talking and ask they send someone with more respect next time