This is the plan.. Put turf down to stop that putrid dust and mud getting into the house!
You will notice in the images, that there are retaining walls required. We wont be doing these until late 2017. This is due to the girls being invited to Dance in the USA, so we need to save for that.
Anyway, I decided even though we are not doing the retaining walls just yet, I would put some turf down just to stop the mud and dust. So I got Chris - our landscape guy - to come back and excavate a little. I told him what I wanted to do, and that I would just use cheap turf as he will chop it all up when he comes back to do the footings for the retaining walls. He said that I may as well use good turf and he can put some ply down as he is doing the footings(late 2017!). So I decided to put down buffalo like the rest of the turfed areas.
Issue.. all the farms had run out of Sapphire! So I decided to use Sir Walter in this area.
After rains all last week the delivery was delayed from Friday until Monday(today).
I was only planning on doing up to the landing for the laundry but there was a fair bit left over. So I went over the slope and down towards the water tank, but I didn't have any more good soil, so the last half a metre or so is just sitting on Clay. It would of gone to waste anyway so Ill see how it goes. I can always dig it up ;)
I had actually prepped the area last weekend, just before it started pissing down, So here are the pics of the prep work.
And now the laying of the turf.
