Ground prepped before anything is delivered
Old turf and debris off, surface loosened, graded to drain away from the house, and rolled. Sod hides a bad grade for about a season.
Instant lawn
Sod succeeds or fails in the week after it is laid.
Sod is the one landscape product that arrives alive and starts dying immediately. Getting it to take is about the two things that happen either side of the delivery: soil loosened and graded so roots have somewhere to go, and water — a lot of it, on a schedule — for the first two to three weeks. Laid over compacted clay and watered when someone remembers, it will green up, brown off and lift like a carpet a month later.
Sod Installation
What you are actually paying for.
Laid tight, staggered, rolled
Seams pushed together so the edges do not dry out and curl, joints staggered like brickwork, and the whole thing rolled to press roots into soil contact.
Tall fescue for Kansas City
A turf-type tall fescue blend handles our summers and our clay better than anything else that stays green here, and it takes the shade a lot of KC lots have.
A watering schedule in writing
Daily and heavy at first, then tapering as it roots. We leave you the schedule, because this is the part that decides whether it works.
Also on the truck
One call covers the property.
Most of our customers book two or three of these together — it is cheaper than separate visits and it all gets done the same day.
Where we do this
Sod Installation across the metro.
Booked most often in these communities — and available in all 64 we cover.
Good to know
Sod Installation — your questions.
How soon can I walk on new sod?
Keep traffic off it for about two weeks and off the seams longer than that. You can usually mow at around three weeks, once it resists a gentle tug — that pull test tells you the roots have taken hold better than the calendar does.
Sod or seed?
Sod for instant results, for slopes where seed washes, and for anywhere you need the yard usable now. Seed is cheaper and works well in fall, which is the right window for it here — but it is a season of patience and weed pressure instead of a weekend.
Do you fix the grade first?
Yes, and on a lot of jobs that is the actual work. If water runs toward the house or ponds in the middle of the yard, laying sod over it just gives you a nicer looking wet spot.
5 years, one owner
One Owner, 100% Service Guarantee.
The person who walks your property and gives you the price is the person doing the work — five years of it across this metro. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor and nothing is quoted by someone who will never see the job. If any part of the finished work is not what we agreed, tell us and we come back and put it right. That is the whole guarantee, and it is easy to stand behind when one person is accountable for every job.
Free estimate
Want a price on sod installation?
Free estimate, no obligation. Call (816) 813-3543 or send the form and we will come look at the property.