Converting fully decked garden back to grass/turf

[ElCI]

Hi all

Putting in a bid on a house on Monday but one major issue with it is the garden is fully decked and looks to be coming to end of life. I have a couple of kids who spend all their time playing football in the garden so I need to do something with it as looks basically unsafe in it's current state.

I had a look online at just putting AstroTurf over the decking but read that it's a drainage nightmare and just leads to further rotting.

So basically what's involved in converting it back to a traditional garden? Is it "just" a matter of ripping out the decking and replanting grass? Id be moving in around October so not ideal for establishing a garden and suspect going down the turf route might be more feasible but I've no idea the extent of work or costs involved here

 

[scbk]

You won't know until you take up the deck and see what's under there. Could be beautiful soil, concrete, paving, gravel etc etc

 

[Old Salt]

Check out the lawnright guy on youtube. Once the ground is prepped you can grow grass from seed and have a useable lawn in 4 weeks. Turf will take just as long as the roots will need to gain a hold before the kids can play footie.

If you can keep them off it for 6 weeks and have prepped it well they could be playing at a Wembley lookalike!