Builder won’t let us cancel

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Dougie and wife Maureen, 58, of East Kilbride, signed up with Artif icial Turf Ltd, trading as Scotgreens, in April last year.

They paid a £650 deposit and a further £1463 when the job was completed in May.

Dad-of-three Dougie said: “The lawn looked f ine after it was finished. But we soon started to notice weeds coming through in various places.

“At first we just pulled them out thinking perhaps there was a bedding-in process for the new grass – and of course they died in the winter anyway.”

But they contacted Scotgreens in June to complain when the better weather arrived and the weeds reappeared with a vengeance.

Dougie, who suffered his injuries in a train crash in 1979, said: “The weeds are everywhere – all over the lawn, from the middle to the edges.

“It’s ridiculous as Scotgreens told us weeds had no chance of penetrating the grass as it has a strong latex backing. It meant moles and rabbits couldn’t burrow through the surface either. They