Pick by area first, then by company
Essex runs from the London border to the coast. Matching the installer to your part of the county matters more than any ranking.

Artificial Grass It, Fake Grass Essex, Easigrass Essex & Hertfordshire and three more, compared by area and reviews. Updated October 2026.
Essex runs from the London border to the coast. Matching the installer to your part of the county matters more than any ranking.
We cover Harlow, Epping, Waltham Abbey, Chigwell, Dunmow, Saffron Walden, Braintree and Chelmsford from Royston. Around Hornchurch, Upminster or Brentwood, the other firms here are closer.
Some Essex firms publish per square metre prices and some do not. Either way, the dig-out, sub-base, waste removal, and edging decide the real value.
Essex runs from the London border to the coast, so the right installer depends on where you live. This is a shortlist of six companies drawn from those that ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommended for Essex in October 2026, checked on 4 October 2026 against Google and Checkatrade. We are Artificial Grass It, the first entry, and we cover west and mid Essex from Royston. In south Essex the others are closer, and we say so.
Artificial Grass It, west Essex from Royston: artificial grass specialist since 2013, more than 500 lawns installed, rated 5.0 on Google. That is us.
Fake Grass Essex, Hornchurch: rated 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade with 295 reviews in total, and published fitted prices of £50 to £90 per square metre.
Easigrass Essex & Hertfordshire, Brentwood: an official Easigrass dealer, 5.0 from 132 Google reviews and two show sites.
Essex Artificial Grass, Upminster: 5.0 from 46 Google reviews, installations from £50 per square metre and an online cost calculator.
Premier Artificial Lawns, Great Dunmow: 5.0 from 18 Google reviews, domestic and sports surfaces.
Artificial Grass Depot, Thornwood near Epping: mainly a supplier with an online shop, and also installs across Essex and East London.
That is us, so read this entry knowing we wrote it. We have supplied and installed artificial grass since 2013 and laid more than 500 lawns, covering west and mid Essex from our base in Royston: Harlow, Epping, Waltham Abbey, Chigwell, Dunmow, Saffron Walden, Braintree, Chelmsford and the villages between. We are rated 5.0 on Google.
Every job gets a full dig-out, a compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base, drainage and secure edging, done by our own team, and we send a fixed written quote after a free survey. If you are in Hornchurch, Upminster, Southend or Basildon, the firms below are closer to you than we are, and travel distance matters on a groundwork-heavy job.
Fake Grass Essex has the strongest vetted record on this list: 295 Checkatrade reviews as a member since 2016, with a Checkatrade score of 10 out of 10 based on its last 12 months. It specialises in artificial grass, installs Trulawn products, and is a sister company of Herringbone Driveways.
It publishes a fitted price range of £50 to £90 per square metre for most homes and takes no deposit, with payment on completion. Hornchurch sits in the London Borough of Havering on the Essex border, so it is well placed for Romford, Brentwood and south Essex.
Easigrass Essex & Hertfordshire is an official Easigrass dealer covering Essex, operated by Green Grass Essex Ltd, which was incorporated in 2016. It holds 5.0 from 132 Google reviews.
You can see the products at its show sites at Hunters Chase garden centre in Hutton and at Marks Tey near Colchester, and its products carry a 10 year warranty. It is a good fit if you want a national brand with a showroom near Brentwood, Chelmsford or Colchester.
Essex Artificial Grass Ltd, incorporated in 2015, holds 5.0 from 46 Google reviews and sells its own Supreme range of grass with a ten year guarantee.
It has the most open pricing on this list: supply from £25 per square metre, installations from £50 per square metre and an online cost calculator. It says it has laid more than 120,000 square metres across Essex. If you want a public price before anyone visits, start here.
Premier Artificial Lawns installs domestic lawns as well as commercial, sports and event surfaces, and holds 5.0 from 18 Google reviews. It says it has more than 20 years of experience installing artificial grass and guarantees its grass for 10 years.
It suits homes around Dunmow, Braintree and Uttlesford, and projects with a sports or commercial element.
Artificial Grass Depot is mainly a supplier, with an online shop selling grass from £18.25 per square metre plus edging and other materials, and it also offers installation across Essex and East London.
It has no public reviews on Google yet, so ask for references if you want it to install. It is a sensible stop around Epping if you plan to lay the grass yourself.
Ask every company to state the dig-out depth, the sub-base material and compaction, whether waste removal is included, and how the edges will be fixed. Fake Grass Essex and Essex Artificial Grass publish installation prices, and we quote fixed after a survey. A published number only means something once you know what scope sits behind it.
Then ask who actually does the work, and read reviews from your own town rather than the overall score. A Chigwell review that mentions access through the house and a bill that matched the quote tells you more than any star average. Distance matters too: a local team spends its day on your garden, not on the A127.
Artificial Grass It is our company and we placed ourselves first for west and mid Essex, the area we serve best. The other five are a shortlist drawn from the companies ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommended for Essex in October 2026, limited to firms that are trading and based in or regularly covering the county. It is not an exhaustive list.
Every rating and review count was checked on 4 October 2026 on the platform named, and Google figures come from each company's Google Maps listing on the same date. Nobody paid to be listed, we have no commercial relationship with any of them, and where a figure is a company's own claim, we have said so.
Royston
Our Google Business Profile and reviews.
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Hornchurch
Checkatrade profile with 295 reviews.
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Hornchurch
Published fitted price range and payment terms.
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Brentwood
Dealer website with show sites and warranty details.
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Brentwood
Google rating and review count.
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Upminster
Published prices, cost calculator and guarantee.
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Upminster
Google rating and review count.
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Great Dunmow
Domestic, commercial and sports installations.
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Great Dunmow
Google rating and review count.
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Thornwood
Online shop and installation details.
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Thornwood
Google listing, with no reviews when checked.
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Location
Our Essex page: the towns we cover, local projects, and how to book a survey.
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Guide
The same comparison format for Hertfordshire, where our base gives us the edge.
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The published national per square metre ranges, and what moves a real quote inside them.
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What people on Reddit actually paid or were quoted, from £600 DIY jobs to £14k installs.
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