Screened soil for lawn - what size is okay?

Hi all,

What size mesh is suitable to screen soil so that it can be used to lay turf on? In the process of making the lawn area bigger and removed 8 tonnes of soil. Made a homemade sieve with 10mm mesh and put it all through that. Will this be fine enough? If not, what size mesh should I get to run it through again?

Thanks in advance!

 

Just my thoughts but I would think 10mm would be fine enough.

 

Hi,
No lawn expert but had a couple of lawns made from seed and turf, but never needed to sieve the soil ? Just dig it over, rake it level, heel it in and rake again removing any large stones etc.

Sieving all that soil sounds like a long and painful job, if you must, though one of these might help .