New house - Rubbish lawn

Hello Everyone,

I'm brand new to this site so hello! I'm also very new to gardening as a whole and its something i want to do!

I've just moved into my new home and because it was a new build they layed the lawn the morning that i moved in. The problem is now 4 weeks later the lawn is patchy with some parts growing super fast and other parts are grey & look like its dying... i've put down some "lawn fertilizer" that i got from my local store along with some new grass seed but these patches are getting worse.
We have had plenty of rain past few weeks and the lawn gets sun light from early morning until 4 pm.
Can anyone help please!?

Thanks

Darren

 

I have lived here nearly 7 years also a new build, I was told a foot of topsoil had been spread and the turf laid on top, , try poking a piece of metal rod into the brown areas, if it won`t go through they have probably just turfed over the rubble, with just a light scattering of soil under, then the topsoil could also be useless, mine was clay set like concrete.

 

Thank you all for your replys! I feel so annoyed by the look of it i'm half tempted to dig it all up and start again! I wonder how much it would cost... LOL

 

I've seen some nightmare lawns laid by new build companies.
Old wooden doors, scaffolding planks, breeze blocks, bricks, you name, it I've seen turf laid on top of it.
The worst was a poor chap who's pretty large lawn (150m squared) had been laid on solid concrete without a speck of soil. I though he was going to cry when I told him it was basically unsaveable.
As everyone else has said, there will be something lurking under the grass in those areas. Grab a sturdy stick and have a poke around. Hopefully you won't find anything too terrible!
Dig it out, fill it with new soil and put the grass back, should come through well given the chance!

 

I would sue a builder who did that to me, absolutely disgusting!

 

What sort of soil would you need to have underneath? I will pull one of the sections up and do what everyone has suggested. I will also get some pictures later tonight.
Could it be as simple as the grass was "dead" when they layed it!?

 

I would buy a grass seed then sprinkle it on the garden and step on the places where you have put the seed. Water regularly and sit back and wait and watch.