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Aftercare of your Rootlok Wall
To ensure optimal results, it is important that you take extra care of your newly hydroseeded/ preseeded Rootlok wall.
Our easy to follow aftercare regime provides you with a year by year guide for successful and sustained vegetation:
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Inspection type |
Frequency |
Process |
|
Structural |
Yearly - After significant weather events |
Visual inspection to Highlight areas of damage/bulging/ vandalism/ settlement / burrowing animals |
|
Drainage |
Yearly - After significant weather events |
Rodding/ jetting and Check for blockages within any installed drainage |
|
Vegetation de-weeding |
Yearly - In winter season |
Removal of any weeds and woody vegetation that has self-seeded in the wall |
|
Vegetation cutting |
Year 1-3 - No cutting Year 3 onwards - Yearly - Ideally in summer |
Cutting should be completed with a strimmer with a guard set to cut no closer than 100mm to the bag face |
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Vegetation watering |
Year 1-3 Year 3 onwards - As required after periods of drought |
Watering should be completed either with a watering system installed on the wall face. Manual watering is also possible but care should be taken with the pressure of any hose, water application should be via misting not jetting to ensure hydroseed does not wash off. If using a water system, system should be run for 6 hours at a time or until bags are saturated ensuring that the pipework is seeping not spraying. If manual watering is undertaken water until bags are saturated. |
DISCLAIMER – This is for guidance purposes. Watering and cutting frequencies may
need to be adjusted to suit site conditions and seed specification eg. Increase in watering frequency for open/exposed wall faces.
Any vegetation failures will be inspected by the installer. If it is deemed that the aftercare guidelines haven’t been followed sufficiently any remedial works carried out will be chargeable. These costs are calculated on an individual job basis.