Everything worth understanding before you spend £500–£3,000 on a machine that lives in your garden. No sales copy — just the things that decide whether you end up happy.
Guide
Boundary wire or wire-free?
The first real decision. Wire-free is newer so it gets sold as better — it isn’t better, it’s different, and it fails in different gardens.
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Got a sloped garden?
The spec people most often get wrong. How to measure your slope properly, and the three things the rating doesn’t tell you.
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What does it cost to run?
Electricity, blades, winter storage and eventual battery replacement — worked through to a real annual figure.
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