How Much Does It Cost To Aerate Your Lawn?
Lawn aeration is a good way of keeping your lawn looking and feeling healthy.
Overtime soil becomes compacted and drainage can suffer effecting the quality of your lawn.
If you want to know: how much does it cost to aerate your lawn then we have compiled a few guidelines below to help you out.
Cost of Aerating tools
You should factor in the cost of tools when working out how much to aerate your lawn.
The main cost of aerating your lawn is time, particularly if you have a large lawn area.
Costs Breakdown
- Manual aerators include pitch forks and garden forks and are £10+ from a DIY store
- Petrol operated lawn aerators cost upwards of £200
- A hollow tined aerator is a tubular tool which digs into the soil and removes a small cylindrical divert.
- They cost around £15
- Shoes with spikes on are another form of aerator which will cost you approximately £10
- Aerating rollers which are pushed like a lawnmower are priced at upwards of £30
- If you want to try and make the work lighter you could buy an electric lawn aerator for around £120
After care also needs to be brought into the equation when calculating how much does it cost to aerate a lawn.
After you have aerated the lawn consider buying some good quality river sand to lay on top.
A bag is priced around £4. Sprinkling approximately 2-3Ib a square metre of fertiliser will also add life to your lawn.
Fertiliser can be purchased from any DIY store for a few pounds per packet.
For well used lawns you should aerate it once a year but if it is only used lightly then you can manage to do it every few years, cutting back on cost.
If you want to hire an aerator then you will be looking at £30 - £60 a day depending on the area you live in.
For the average sized lawn you will need approximately an hour to aerate it.
Petrol powered ones cost about £200 per day from hire shops such as HSS.
When considering how much does it cost to aerate a lawn you should also think about natural methods of aeration.
Adding worms into the soil will help.
Deep watering your grass will make it more attractive to worms as well as leaning away from using chemicals on your grass.
Overall, to lawn aeration can cost anywhere between £30 to £300.
