Thanks again everyone for the advice and support. Hopefully in a year or so I'll be able to show a different looking side of things.

Okay, thanks again for your help. Definitely out of my element and disappointed that I've ruined what I paid to have installed. I'll follow the advice given in here. Any suggestions regarding what has already died or preventing weeds from sprouting in the places that are dead?

We were told that it is bluegrass that was laid by default, so I'd assume that's that sod type.

I'll get back to you on the type of sod. Soil prep was pretty minimal, I believe. The day prior to installation the sod installation company came through and graded the property. There was quite a bit of gravel still in the soil which wasn't really removed, mostly just flattened. I wish I could prov...

Thanks for the quick reply. The sod seems knitted in. We are unable to lift the sod at any point in the lawn from the ground at the corners. We'll cut back the watering heavily. Hard to hear we've overwatered because we followed the advice of the people who laid the sod in terms of the amount of wat...

Hi all, I'm a first time homeowner and we had new sod laid around 4 weeks ago. Things seemed fine the first two weeks, but we are concerned about the state that things are in. In the first few weeks, the sod had the sprinkler run over it for around 40-60 mins per day. The next week we cut back to on...