Fabric sucks! Waste of money and time. There is no shortcut unless you like spraying chemicals. I promise, fabric is only another product to sell a client. It's petroleum based and a horrible product for "weed prevention," though there is a time and place like french drains, behind retaining walls with gravel, infiltration pits etc.
@J Tooley I am a licensed landscape contractor. I have removed so much fabric that allowed the roots of weeds to entangle that you can't pull them. If you mulch on top of the fabric, the mulch traps water and allows the weeds to germinate either way. All you need is 4 inches of mulch with a good drip system. Weeds are coming either way. Why put petroleum products that end up in landfills in the ground? One more product to sell the client? I'm sure other regions are different than where I live. Landscaping is never maintenance-free, as you are well aware of.
Thats actually useful asf im not a landscaper but somtimes i have customers ask me to put that stuff down and mine looks like amateur job and this will fix that
I'm a landscape gardener and you wouldn't believe how many customers think you won't get weeds anymore putting the fabric down .it's about 95% works to prevent weeds.
Total waste of your time and your customers- as someone in the industry 20 year's weed mat is the biggesr scam known to landscape. Add some snapshot and treat 2x a year. Now weedmat will grow weeds thru it, making your life and out your custmers a nightmare... meaning now they can use oscillating hoes to weed they have to get the rroot thru the ground thru the separation fabric. Do the right thing and aware all customers.
I'm in the process of removing several layers of this shit at a park for my job. It does nothing and it's backbreaking work to remove. I'll BEG anyone who is considering this to reconsider lol.
@@DenpaKei i always recommend any and all customers considering weed mat, to steer clear at all times. Not only is it a huge waste of time and money... but lets say you put weed mat then stone down.. well stone typically comes unwashed once it rains the weed mat now has a beautiful layer of dirt to grow as many weeds as possible then it growing threw the layer makes it back breaking as stated... weed mat under mulch, completely and utterly useless and ashame and professional could ever recommend it.. unfortunately this seems to be the case for the ederly or those of little to know knowledge.
@@tylerbroom8309definitely not true. I laid fabric down in my beds last year with 5 inches of mulch and had maybe 2 weeds pop up. It’s helps tremendously. The other area where I didn’t put fabric down I have to pull weeds every week.
