How to Level Your Lawn the Easy Way. | Lawn Leveling with Topsoil | Front Yard Renovation

Level your lawn and make it smooth and nice to mow again! If you have a bumpy lawn, this lawn leveling guide is great for anyone with small or medium size lawns. And it's especially useful if you plan on doing it alone.

A special lawn leveling tool is not required to level your lawn this way. Common tools are only needed: a shovel, a rake, a 12 or 16 foot 2x4, some stakes and a cart for hauling the topsoil. I use metal stakes but wooden stakes will work just fine. As you will see, I also will use a few 1” pvc pipes and a metal fence post as part of the leveling “hack.”

If you're looking to renovate your lawn and need inspiration, I hope this video will help you address your topsoil issues before you seed. It was a super fun experience leveling my lawn and making this video!

Keep in mind, if the lawn isn't level as you sow the seed, it will be MANY months after you lay down the seed before you can come back with soil and correct any bumpiness.

Also, if your soil is not very fertile, adding rich topsoil before you plant grass seed is critical to the germination and survival of your tender seedlings.

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[jackieniederheitmann]

You made this so ridiculously easy compared to some of these other guys with the leveling rake. Gah! Thank you! This single mom's dreaded project is now gonna be way easier :)

[davidfield]

As a film teacher I can safely say someone who knows what they are doing produced, shot and edited this video. Beautiful. On top of that these are the best techniques and instructions I’ve seen for managing a controlled grading of soil. Really great. Thank you.

[Olympica]

While caring for my mom, then needing a hip replacement, I let my 4, 000sq ft backyard get overgrown with the eventual goal of clearing it (1949 home). I'm clearing and prepping it for landscaping with weed cloth, but wanted to know how to level the soil. O'm'gosh, thank you for this concise + simple demo using tools that everyone has!

[Lobo]

You should win an award for this simple trick I’m obsessed

[kylemjohnson]

Awesome way to level it out to uniform. One thing you could do is instead of using the two stake, drill a one inch hole in the 2 by 4 and use one stake as the pivot point. Just a thought.

[carolinafine]

It’s pretty cool how you go into such detail. So many of the yard repair channels cover so much information in such a compressed amount of time that you don’t really get what they’re saying.

[michellemacca]

I am trying to level my very dry hard clay covered ground 🥵 by myself, by hand... love this idea.. you saved me a ton of guess work 🙌

[_RHINO]

Smart man. I just used a tiller on my lawn and now I need to level it out so I came to the right spot

[dimanoma]

been looking for an approach like this for months. Much appreciated!

[jacobmorales]

Give this man a Bob The Builder Show!!

[mr.l]

I like the 2x4 leveling idea. Good for normal homeowners !

[nathanmitchell]

Of all the things I wish I could afford to pay somebody to do, leveling and grading large areas would be the one thing I would pay somebody to do. I’m prepping a large area for pavers, and it is a BEAST

[Nancy-xgnc]

I felt your dread when that rain came!
Great video....thanks!🎉

[pebbles]

OK, well my husband passed away in 2016 n then I realized that our yard needed leveling. Tired of hurting my knees with the sudden jerk of bumps while mowing the lawn. Thank you so much for this much needed information. Sorry it rained on you.

[jcrobledo]

You are a the man!! Im motivated and ready to start my project

[mickeyhughes]

Great leveling technique with the 4" x 2" ..50/50 mix is perfect, I use the same here in the UK 🇬🇧

[RussFedorov]

dang bro, your video quality and music is just like a tv show, i love it!

[ezymedianetwork]

Beautiful content I love the way you talk.

[matytj]

I’ve been looking for something simple like this. Thank you so much for sharing this technique with us!

[corndonkey]

First video I found! Gonna try this with new raised beds on a slope! Will let u know how it goes.