What Bunnings actually stocks, with prices
Most comparisons of this kind never tell you what is on the shelf, so here it is. Synthetic turf appears under three names, Tuff Turf, DIY Turf and Coolaroo, plus Jack for pegs. Landscape rolls are 1.8m wide (Coolaroo 1.83m), sold by the lineal metre or in prepacked 3m, 4m, 5m and 10m lengths.
| Product | Pile | Format | Price | Per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIY Turf synthetic turf mat | 7mm | 1 x 1m | $12.99 | n/a |
| Coolaroo Handy synthetic turf | 9mm | 1.83m lineal | $32.63/m | $17.83 |
| DIY Turf Total Turf | 12mm | 1.8m lineal | $49.00/m | $27.22 |
| DIY Turf Lifestyle | 20mm | 1.8m lineal | $53.55/m | $29.75 |
| Tuff Turf Multi Tuff | 12mm | 1.8m lineal | $71.50/m | $39.72 |
| Tuff Turf K9 Tuff | 25mm | 1.8 x 5m | $389.00 | $43.22 |
| Tuff Turf Luxury Tuff | 35mm | 1.8m lineal | $86.22/m | $47.90 |
| Tuff Turf Real Tuff | 35mm | 1.8 x 5m | $452.17 | $50.24 |
| Tuff Turf Balm Tuff | 40mm | 1.8 x 5m | $463.50 | $51.50 |
Prices checked 15 August 2026, supply only, and they exclude sand, adhesive, joining tape, pegs and any base materials. Retail pricing moves; confirm in store. Mats and small tiles work out considerably dearer per square metre than rolls and are meant for patches rather than lawns.
The number worth sitting with is at the bottom of that table. Bunnings' best landscape turf lands around $50 to $52 per square metre, supply only. Supply-only trade product across the Australian market generally runs $25 to $75 per square metre. So the premium Bunnings SKUs sit near the top of the trade band rather than beneath it. Bunnings is not the cheap materials option. That runs against the assumption almost everyone starts with, and it reframes the whole DIY calculation: what you are saving is labour.
The Victoria-only installation service, and what it means here
Bunnings does run an installation service for synthetic turf. A service agent prepares the area, lays your chosen Tuff Turf and installs edging. The terms are specific: it covers Tuff Turf products only, there is a $99 measure-and-quote fee that is not redeemable against the job, travel is included up to 35km from the booking store with excess kilometres charged on top, and the workmanship is guaranteed by the service agent who does the work rather than by Bunnings itself.
None of which is available to you in Perth, because the service runs in selected Victorian stores. We are stating that plainly rather than skating past it, because it is the kind of detail that quietly wastes a Saturday. For a Perth household, the realistic comparison is between doing it yourself and engaging an independent local installer, and that comparison is decided almost entirely by the ground, not by the grass.
What Bunnings' instructions cover, and the part they assume
Bunnings publishes a laying guide, and it is a competent one for what it is. Rolling out, cutting, joining, securing, infilling. Read the title literally though: it is a laying guide, and it presupposes that a suitable base already exists beneath you.
Base building is the part it does not walk you through, and it is the part that decides whether the lawn is still flat in five years. Excavation to roughly 75mm, or 100mm where vehicles run. Road base or crushed rock, wetted and plate-compacted, screeded with crusher dust and screeded again, with at least two compaction passes. A weed membrane, on which Australian installer practice genuinely varies. And a deliberate fall to somewhere water can leave. CHOICE and Australian industry installation guides point to the same failure pattern in DIY work: depth guessed rather than measured, one compaction pass instead of two, membrane skipped. None of it is visible on the day. It appears twelve to eighteen months later as hollows underfoot, water sitting in low spots, and weeds coming up through the joins.
In Perth there is one more preliminary step no retail guide will mention, because it is local: capping the reticulation. Nearly every lawn being replaced here has retic under it, frequently fed by a garden bore, and heads and solenoids inside the covered area need capping before anything else happens. Our page on how a Perth install is built covers that sequence.
Where each option genuinely wins
DIY with a retail roll is a reasonable call when the area is small and flat, there is already a hard, level, stable base under it, such as a sound paved courtyard, and you are happy doing careful cutting and joining. On a small area the fixed costs of a professional job (mobilising a crew, hiring plant, minimum material orders, spoil removal) fall heavily on a small number of square metres, so DIY looks relatively better the smaller the job gets. That is the honest version of the argument, and it does not depend on the turf being cheaper, because it is not.
An independent installer is the stronger call when the area is larger, there is slope or drainage complexity, the ground is not already compacted and level, or you want a workmanship warranty rather than only whatever product warranty came with the roll. In Perth, the ground condition question has teeth: much of the plain is deep Bassendean or Spearwood sand that digs easily but still needs a proper compacted layer, several Bassendean phases are mapped as poorly drained with clay or a hardpan below, the plain margin runs sand over clay, and the foothills are laterite gravel over duricrust with slope on top. Guessing at a base on any of those is an expensive way to learn.
One thing does not tip the scales either way: there is no rebate. No Australian council, water utility or state government pays anything toward replacing lawn with synthetic turf, DIY or professional. In WA the only garden rebate on Water Corporation's offers page requires you to keep an existing irrigation system, so pulling out your retic makes you less eligible. If you want the tier-by-tier professional figures to hold against your DIY sums, they are in the Perth price guide, and if you are unsure how to compare a Bunnings sample against a trade sample, work through the sample assessment method.
Professional pricing to hold your DIY sums against
| Tier | Supply only ($/m²) | Supplied & installed ($/m²) | Typical lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budget | $25–40 | $75–95 | 5–8 years |
| Mid | $40–60 | $95–130 | 10–15 years |
| Premium | $60–100+ | $130–160+ | 15–20+ years |
Published 2025–26 Australian supplier and industry ranges. Note the overlap: Bunnings' premium SKUs at roughly $50–52/m² supply only sit inside the Mid to Premium supply band rather than under the Budget one. The DIY saving is labour and base-prep hours, not materials.
Bunnings turf questions, answered for a Perth reader
Can I get Bunnings to install artificial grass in Perth?
No. Bunnings runs a Tuff Turf Installation service, in which a service agent prepares the area, lays your chosen Tuff Turf and installs edging, but it operates in selected Victorian stores only. A Perth shopper can buy the product off the shelf and cannot buy that installation service. It is a genuine geographic distinction and worth knowing before you plan around it, because plenty of pages written for an eastern-states audience mention the service without saying where it applies.
Is Bunnings turf cheaper than what a professional uses?
Not on materials, which surprises nearly everybody. Bunnings' premium landscape turf sits around $50 to $52 per square metre supply only, while supply-only trade product across the Australian market generally runs $25 to $75 per square metre. The Bunnings range overlaps the top of that band rather than undercutting it. The DIY saving is almost entirely labour, not turf.
So what does DIY actually save?
Roughly the labour component, which industry figures put at about 30% of a typical job, and only if your own work matches what a professional would have delivered on the base. Materials are around 40% and base preparation around 30%, and you still have to buy the base materials, the sand, the tape, the adhesive and the pegs, plus hire a plate compactor. Then value your own weekend honestly.
What is in the Bunnings range?
Synthetic turf appears under Tuff Turf, DIY Turf and Coolaroo, with Jack supplying pegs. Pile heights run from 7mm mats up to 40mm, and landscape rolls are 1.8m wide (Coolaroo 1.83m), sold either by the lineal metre or as prepacked 3m, 4m, 5m and 10m lengths. Prices in the table on this page were checked on 15 August 2026 and retail pricing moves, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a current quote.
Does Bunnings publish the backing type and warranty?
Not that we could retrieve. That is a finding rather than an oversight on our part: the product pages did not return backing type, warranty term or face weight to us. Since backing type is one of the three specifications we would tell anyone to insist on, especially in a climate that averages 79 days a year at or above 30°C at Perth Airport, its absence is worth factoring into the decision. Ask in store and ask for it in writing.
Is Bunnings' own laying guide enough to follow?
It is a laying guide, and that word is doing a lot of work. It covers rolling out, cutting, joining and infilling, and it presupposes that a suitable base already exists. It does not walk you through excavation depth, road base, compaction passes, weed membrane or setting a drainage fall, which is precisely the 30% of the job where DIY installs most commonly fail according to CHOICE and Australian industry installation guidance.
When is a retail roll genuinely the right call in Perth?
A small, flat area that already has a hard, level, well-draining base under it, where you are comfortable doing careful cutting and joining work. A tidy paved courtyard behind a villa is close to the ideal case. A 90 square metre backyard, a slope, ground you have not dug into, or anything on foothills laterite is a different proposition, and that is where the horror stories about lifting edges and standing water come from.
Will an installer lay a roll I supply?
Some will and some will not, and it is worth asking plainly rather than assuming. An installer putting a workmanship warranty behind a job generally prefers to select the product so that the whole thing sits under one warranty. Others will lay customer-supplied material and simply scope their warranty to the works.
Do the tools cost much?
Nothing exotic, but budget for them. A plate compactor (hire), a screeding bar or straight edge, a stiff broom for infill, a sharp knife with a generous supply of fresh blades, and joining tape if the area needs more than one roll width. Sand, road base and compactor hire vary by supplier and location, so price them locally rather than trusting a figure from a web page, including ours.
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