WALPLUS 20mm Artificial Grass Roll

Is the WALPLUS 20mm Artificial Grass Roll worth buying?

Yes, the WALPLUS 20mm Artificial Grass Roll is worth buying at £29.99 if you need 4 m² of turf that drains fast and stands up to pets, on a balcony, a patio or a small garden. It goes down as one 4 m by 1 m piece with a self-draining latex backing, and 195 buyers rate it 4.4. Buy it when water and dogs decide the job; buy something deeper if you want a lawn that looks lush from the kitchen window.

At £7.50 per square metre this roll sits just above the cheapest 30mm turf on the market, so the choice is really depth against drainage. Twenty millimetres is enough to look green and tidy underfoot on a hard surface, and the fibre holds its colour through summer sun. It weighs 5.46 kg, so one person can carry it up a flight of stairs and trim it in with a craft knife.

What does 20mm pile and £7.50 per square metre actually mean?

The roll covers 4 m², which puts £29.99 at £7.50 per square metre, about £1 more per square metre than the 30mm Tuda Antalya at £6.50. Twenty millimetres of pile sits between utility matting at 15mm and a proper lawn at 30mm. It reads as grass at a glance and under a chair, but a shoe presses it flat where a 30mm pile springs back.

The backing is what you are really paying for. A self-draining latex layer lets rainwater run straight through the turf instead of pooling in the pile, which matters on a concrete balcony where standing water has nowhere to go. In daily use that means fewer wet patches after a downpour and less lingering smell where a dog uses the same spot.

What arrives and how do you lay it?

A single 4 m by 1 m roll turns up, weighing 5.46 kg, and it is the only piece in the order, so there is nothing to assemble. WALPLUS asks you to unroll it onto a prepared flat surface, brush the fibres upright and let the turf settle before you judge the finish. Give it a couple of days to relax, and cut with a sharp blade rather than scissors for clean edges around steps.

The roll is the whole delivery: one piece, no fittings. On soil or gravel you add a weed membrane and pegs yourself, and a second run needs joining tape, because a 1 m width means anything wider than a metre is two pieces edge to edge. The compensation is that side returns, balcony edges and roof terraces are usually about a metre across, so the offcuts stay small.

Where the WALPLUS roll falls short

Twenty millimetres is 10mm short of the 30mm rolls most people picture when they think about fake grass. On a lawn in full view that shows up as a flatter surface, and the fibres need brushing back upright after pets or furniture have been on them. The 1 m width is the other limit: a 3 m wide garden needs three runs joined edge to edge.

Only 195 buyers have rated it, against 1,912 behind the cheaper GardenKraft, so you are buying on a shorter track record. At £7.50 per square metre it is also £1.25 more per square metre than that GardenKraft over the same 4 m strip.

WALPLUS 20mm versus the Tuda Antalya and the GardenKraft

The Tuda Grass Direct Antalya costs £39, £9.01 more, and hands you 6 m² of 30mm pile at £6.50 per square metre. Its extra depth and area suit a family lawn that gets sat on and walked over; the WALPLUS suits a hard surface where drainage and a 4 m strip decide the job.

The GardenKraft rolls out 4 m by 1 m for £24.99, £5 less for exactly the same coverage, but its 15mm pile is a quarter shallower and it carries 1,912 ratings against the WALPLUS's 195. Where rain and pets are the point, the self-draining backing is worth the extra £5.