Oypla 17mm Artificial Grass Mat

Is the Oypla 17mm Artificial Grass Mat worth buying?

Yes, if the job is a small, tidy patch that has to stay green all year: the Oypla 17mm Artificial Grass Mat gives you 1.8 m by 0.9 m of 17mm turf for £17.99, and 675 buyers rate it 4.2. It arrives as a single piece, so laying it across a doorway or along a balcony edge is a one-person job with nothing to join.

It stops making sense once you need more than 1.62 m². At £11.10 per square metre you pay £4.85 more than the 4 m GardenKraft roll charges for its length, so buy this one for its shape and its small size, not for value per metre.

Is a 17mm pile thick enough to pass as grass?

At 17mm the fibres stand up and look green and even from standing height, which is the look this height is sold on for shopfronts, doorways and tidy edges. It is 13mm short of the 30mm Antalya, so a chair leg, a bike stand or bare feet on paving flatten it and leave marks where a deeper pile would spring back.

The figure that decides the buy here is the price per square metre, and this mat covers 1.62 m²: 1.8 m multiplied by 0.9 m is 1.62, and £17.99 divided by 1.62 comes to £11.10 per square metre. Buying by the metre instead of by the piece is what brings that down to £6.50 on the Antalya's 6 m² roll.

What do you get for £17.99?

One 1.8 m by 0.9 m mat of 17mm green turf, model 3837A2P, weighing 2.3 kg, and that single piece is the whole order. There is no second mat and no joining strip, so the size you order is the size you lay.

The backing has drainage holes, and the care it asks for is water: a garden hose or a good downpour is enough to keep it clean. It is built for outdoor use and keeps its colour through every season, so it can stay out over winter.

Where does the Oypla 17mm Artificial Grass Mat fall short?

The 0.9 m width is the first limit: anything wider than a doorway takes two mats side by side, and the seam shows because 17mm of pile is not deep enough to hide it. It also comes in the one size, 1.8 m by 0.9 m, so you buy the piece rather than the area you actually need.

The pile is the second: 17mm will not pass as lawn sitting beside 30mm turf, which matters if the patch is in view of the kitchen window. Then there is the money, because £11.10 per square metre is £4.85 more per square metre than the 4 m GardenKraft roll.

How does the Oypla mat compare with the GardenKraft and the Antalya?

The GardenKraft is the same idea sold by the length: £24.99 buys a 4 m by 1 m roll, which is 4 m² of 15mm turf at £6.25 per square metre, and 1,912 buyers rate it 4.5. That is £7.00 more than the Oypla for nearly two and a half times the area, so it wins wherever you need a run rather than a single mat.

The Antalya is the one to choose if people will walk on it like a lawn: £39 for 6 m² of 30mm pile, which is £21.01 more than the Oypla and nearly four times the area at £6.50 per square metre. Keep the Oypla for the doorway and the Antalya for the grass beyond it.