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Quick answer: One roll of turf covers exactly 1m² at almost every UK supplier. So a 50m² lawn needs 53 rolls, once you add 5% for cutting waste. Turf delivered to your door costs £4–£9 per m² in 2026. Supplied and laid (a gardener brings it and lays it for you) runs £10–£27 per m² — so a typical 50m² lawn comes to £700–£750 all-in.
Prices checked July 2026 · how we check them · how we work it out
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Includes 5% for cutting and shaping — order 10% extra instead if your lawn has curves, trees or beds to cut around.
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Prices checked July 2026 · how we check them · how we work it out
These figures are planning estimates. Turf is perishable — order for delivery the day before you lay, and check roll size when comparing prices (most suppliers cut 1m² rolls, but some DIY-shed rolls are 0.84m²).
Turf is the one product here you buy last, not first: it is alive, and every grower says the same thing in different words — lay it the day it arrives, 24 hours at the very most. So prepare the bed, buy the kit below, and only then order the grass for a named day. Where the cheap option is a false economy, we say so.
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Rolawn Medallion £12.29/roll (10–19 rolls) falling to £5.89 (100+), delivery included — a typical 30m² lawn lands around £6.50–£9/m²
Named-day is the spec that matters: the grower cuts fresh for the date you pick, which solves the thing that actually kills DIY turfing — turf must go down the day it arrives. A mid-price rye blend is all a family lawn needs; paying more buys appearance, not survival. Per-roll prices drop hard with volume, so order your area plus ~5% for cuts in one go — one order beats two.
Rolawn Medallion (named-day delivery) →The default: order turf for laying day, never before: Do all the prep first, then order for a named day. Rolawn lets you pick the date at checkout — no Mondays, turf is cut fresh daily — and Online Turf does next-day on orders before 2pm. The catch: slots are all-day (7.30am–6pm at Rolawn), Saturdays cost extra (£72), and the pallet stops at the kerb on flat hard ground.
Under ~20 rolls and you can lay it this afternoon: Ring a local turf farm: Paynes (Essex) charges £3.24/roll collected, against £6.50–£9/m² delivered nationally. Ask when it was cut — same morning only — and unroll a corner before loading. The catch: rolls weigh 15–20kg, so 20 rolls is 300–400kg — beyond many boots, and a multi-trip fantasy for a whole lawn.
Tempted to one-click the whole job?: Not for the grass. The only genuine fresh-turf listing we found was £126.31 for ~4.5m² (£28.07/m²) with a three-week delivery window — for a product that dies in 24 hours. Amazon is genuinely fine for the fertiliser and the sprinkler kit; buy turf from a grower.
Laying in July?: It works, but new turf needs water daily — twice daily in hot spells — for the first fortnight, so a high-summer lay chains you to the hose. If that doesn't fit your life, waiting until September–October costs nothing and roots better.
Most lawns
Under half a day's sun
Small patches, laid same day
Top-ups & small beds
Patch repairs
Skip it on fresh topsoil
While you're at work
Someone's home
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Turf is the easy one to work out. Almost every UK supplier cuts rolls of exactly 1m² (about 610mm × 1640mm). So your lawn area in square metres is your roll count. We add 5% for cutting and shaping — go to 10% if your lawn has curves, trees or beds to cut around. Each roll weighs 15–20kg. That is why we show the delivery weight: a 50m² lawn is a tonne of turf, arriving on a pallet (a big wooden platform dropped off the back of a lorry).
The bit people miss is under the grass. A new lawn needs 100–150mm of decent topsoil (the good, loose soil that roots grow into) underneath. Skip that over hard, packed ground and the roots stay shallow — the grass burns brown every summer and sits wet and mossy every winter. And one hard rule: turf is alive. Rolled up, it heats up and starts to rot from the inside. So it must go down the day it arrives in summer, and within 24 hours at most in cooler months.
Prices checked July 2026 against Rolawn, Wickes, B&Q, Turfonline, George Davies Turf and trade cost guides. Rounded ranges, not quotes.
| Item | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Budget rye turf (rye is the basic hard-wearing lawn grass), delivered | £3.90–£5 per m² |
| Standard family lawn turf (delivered) | £4–£7 per m² |
| Premium show lawn (delivered) | £6–£12 per m² |
| Wildflower turf | £15–£29 per m² |
| Lawn topsoil (per bulk bag — the big builder's sack) | £77–£165 |
| Supplied & laid (a gardener brings it and lays it), most jobs | £10–£27 per m² |
| Gardener day rate | £150–£200 |
| Ground levelling (where needed) | ~£20 per m² |
The more you order, the less each roll costs — by a lot. Premium rolls that cost £12/m² in a 10-roll order drop under £6/m² at 100+ rolls. So price your whole lawn in one order, not in top-ups.
| Lawn | Turf only (standard) | Supplied & laid |
|---|---|---|
| Small — 20 m² | £85–£150 | £250–£500 |
| Medium — 50 m² | £200–£330 | £600–£800 |
| Large — 100 m² | £390–£600 | £1,100–£1,700 |
A 100m² lawn is about 3 days' work for a pro, including the ground prep. The 50m² supplied-and-laid figure matches what the 2026 trade guides agree on: roughly £700–£750 all-in.
• Order size — turf halves in price per m² between a 10-roll and a 100-roll order. One big order beats two small ones.
• Ground condition — if the old lawn needs digging out and the ground levelling, the prep can cost more than the turf itself.
• Season — lay in autumn and the rain does most of the watering for you. Lay in July and you are tied to the hose every day, with more chance of losing turf.
• Topsoil — budget £45–£135 per m³ (a cubic metre — one metre each way) if the bed needs building up to the proper 100–150mm.
• Waste removal — getting rid of the old turf, by skip or waste collection, adds £35+ to a re-turfing job.
Delivered turf realistically starts around £4 per m² for budget rye (the basic hard-wearing lawn grass) and runs to £9–£12 per m² for a premium show lawn. Big orders get big discounts — at 100+ rolls, even premium turf can drop under £6/m². If a gardener supplies and lays it for you, most jobs land between £10 and £27 per m². A typical 50m² lawn costs around £700–£750 all-in.
One roll is 1m² at almost every turf supplier (roughly 610mm × 1640mm). So your lawn area plus 5% for cutting waste equals your roll count. Add 10% instead if the lawn has curves or things to cut around. One catch worth knowing: some DIY-shed rolls are only 0.84m², so always check the roll size before comparing prices.
Mid-autumn (September–November) is best. The soil is still warm, the rain does the watering for free, and October turf often needs no watering at all. Early spring is second best. Mid-summer only works if you soak it every single day — miss one watering day in July and new turf can die within 48 hours.
Same day in spring and summer. Within 24 hours at most in autumn and winter. Rolled turf is alive — it heats up and starts to rot from the inside, and no, you can't water it while it's rolled. Book delivery for the day before you plan to lay, with the ground already prepared.
For a new lawn, yes: 100mm of decent topsoil minimum, 150mm ideally. Topsoil is the good, loose soil the grass roots grow into. Skimp on it over hard, packed ground and the roots stay shallow — the lawn burns brown every summer and sits wet every winter. Our calculator shows the topsoil volume for a 100mm bed; use our topsoil calculator to turn that into bulk bags (the big builder's sacks it arrives in).
Real turf is far cheaper to buy (£4–£9/m² against £10–£28/m² for artificial) and better for wildlife — but it needs mowing, feeding and watering. Artificial grass costs more up front and needs the ground properly prepared first, but after that it's a decade of almost no upkeep. If you're weighing it up, our artificial grass calculator prices the other side of the fence.
Every price band on this page traces to a source we checked ourselves, with the date we checked it. Prices move — if one of these looks out of date, tell us and we'll recheck it.
We'll carry this over — your real lawn and the size you just worked out — and you can add anything else you're thinking about: clearance, paving, decking, fencing, lawn, driveways, planting. You end up with one brief to send to three landscapers, so they all price the same job and you can see which one has quietly left something out.
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