Thanks all!

Pac, yes, I remember your backyard! Poor turf

Teeki, that's our thought, if the seeds don't take at least we didn't waste hundreds of dollars. We have a large area too... 50sq m.

So I've rung a few turf places and a few Bunnings/Masters types... Turf varies greatly! One place was going to charge me around $900, Bunnings like $600. Turf place said don't walk on it for 6 weeks, Bunnings said it'll be right after a week or so. How can there be such variance??

I think we're going to try seed. I want it, wanted I should say, for my family Christmas do on Dec 21. Turf won't be "settled" by then so it will render the whole lawn useless for the Christmas do. So I think we will seed it on the weekend, see how it grows, and if it is an epic fail then maybe we will try turf in the new year.