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The easy way to create neat, shaped or straight lawn borders! Smartedge uses its patented A-Frame design to bind itself into the roots of the lawn itself as the grass grows through it, forming a permanent, structural, and maintenance-free barrier which you can mow straight over, right to the edge. Being totally flexible it will fit any shaped lawn edge and once installed, removes the need to continually maintain lawn borders.
Features:
The Smartedge is 14cm high and has a depth of 1.9mm and is available in the following 3 different packs sizes:
Customer Note: In normal conditions it should only be necessary to pin every third or fourth A-frame.
I've done a short length as a practice. I watched a couple of videos that proved very helpful, and made the job easier. I had no trouble getting the pins in, as some had reported, a couple started to bend, but they could be straightened, and gently knocked in. The best tip I got from a video, was to cut a small piece to use as a test to see if the lawn edge was straight enough, and deep enough. It looks good in position and I can see that when the grass grows through the A-frames it will be secure.
Bought 50m, brown. First section I did was a learning process and took an age to install. After having pin worn fingers put on my engineers hat. My process Noel has cut installation time in half and here it is. Dig down total depth of smartedge including serrations. Make sure cut edge is clean and totally upright. Round of all corners of lawn rather than 90 degree edge. Roll out smartedge and raise triangles then loose lay smartedge alongside lawn and commence pining. Remove pins from holder and place in shallow plastic dish like the one that comes with Chinese meal. Spray pins with WD 40 or similar. Wear very thin plastic surgical type gloves .The-pins drive in easily and gloves save fingers from surface of pins and WD40. Make sure you support the full length of each pin until fully in the ground. Rounding corners of lawn save cutting smartedge. Unless lawn is ultra level you may need to mix up a slurry of soil and water use trowel to apply and level, after few weeks grass will grow through. Backfill healing in first spade of earth then loose fill up to desired level. Hope this helps. The pin tip is the key and will save you hours. Happy Edging
Like others, I had problems with the pin holes and pins not going through very easily. I tried re-drilling but not that successful, however using a Stanley knife (or Similar) and trimming the pin serrations slightly for the first few serrations (4-5) I found I could then push them through OK. To my surprise I had plenty of pins, still have some left, so the supplier had obviously taken note! I did find it very difficult to cut and had to use a Dremel with a cutting disc to make my required length/angles. It is very robust and provides a good solid edge. I hope when the grass grows all the edge securing mechanism will disappear. I have no reason to suppose it won't.
We purchased 2 x 10m lengths but fitting was far more difficult than on the video, also the pin holes were too small for the pins and several bent or broke when trying to insert them. Not sufficient pins to safely secure the edging and we had to buy 2 x Extra pins to be able achieve it and would suggest that the manufacturers increase the hole size and provide more pins with each purchase, To summarise I would say be prepared for a more difficult, costly and time consuming job than you thought
I had 4 curved borders to do each about 10 mts long, I started the first border with the edging straight out of the box in its rolled up conditio. But it was quite difficult to control to go round the curves on the border probably due to the stresses of being rolled up for some time. The other problem was the pins do not go through the holes in the triangles. I tried the first one and had difficulty hammering it in, on the 2nd one I bent the pin trying to get it in. In the end I measured the pin, on the ground holding the bit and a 4mm drill was just right and allowed me to push a pin in part way just to hold the triangles to make sure I got the curves right before I hammered or ousdhed the pins fully home.If I needed to remove or reposition a pin it was also easy to remove.For the second border in addition to drilling out all the holes to 4mm I also unrolled the edging and laid it out flat on the lawn with a weight at each end and left it out for a day and night.The edging was then very easy to control and follow any curves. The brown edging looks brilliant in position and borders 3 and 4 will now be a doddle.My recommendation to smartedge, to improve what is a very good product, is to make the holes 4mm and suggest in the instructions to unroll the edging and lay it flat for a period of time.
I first saw this smart edge in my friends garden last summer and it always looks so tidy. So I thought Id give it a go. Id seen reviews about the pins not fitting the holes but after 1 attempt I realized you need to tap them in slowly to start off and we had no problem with them at all. I did water the grass for about 4 days to make sure it was soft and that helped. The end result looks fantastic and we are so pleased with it My neighbor saw it and shes thinking about doing hers now. Wish I could include a picture.
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