can I open a sin hodges and going to go through a few of the do's and don'ts when you're preparing the ground for your new lawn some of the do's I'll make sure you've done all your other landscaping you don't want to be laying your turf and then walking all over it when you're planting or building retaining walls once it's laid you want to stay off it for a while the first thing you need to do is remove any existing vegetation that might be an existing lawn or weeds spray it out dig it out and get rid of it give it a light rake like I'm doing now stand back and look for high and low spots if it's high you can rake it out if it's low you can fill it in your lawn is only as good as the saw you're laying it on because you need deep strong roots for a successful lawn now I'm working with good soil here and I don't need to raise or lower my levels but rule of thumb if you're starting from scratch you need a bare minimum of a hundred mil of good turf underlay to lay your turf on if you've got a lot of clay you can put down clay breaker and that will help the soil soften which allow more air and moisture into the ground which means you get deeper roots and if you need to work with your pH level you can put dolomite down once you've got all that right make sure it's falling so it's not gonna sit in water get on the phone and call your local lawn solutions Australia grower because you're ready to later