[kccrow]

Option A: First, you can do this yourself.

1. Get a grape hoe. You use this to cut away all your old sod. Get down a couple inches. Take you a couple hours.

2. You need to turn the soil somehow. 200 square feet? Do it with a shovel.

3. Rake out to get the chunks and rocks. Level your grade according to how you want it to look and for proper drainage.

4. Spray it all with Roundup. Let that work until any remaining sod/weeds are dead. Reapply if some weeds appear. Don't seed/sod until a week or so after applying.

5. Add peat moss and fertilizer (1:1:1). Peat moss is important here, it aerates the soil and is excellent at retaining moisture which are both important to starting a great lawn. Turn in with your shovel. Rake out again to level and correct grade issues you've found.

6. Seed it, lightly rake the seed just under the soil, and cover with hay. Once you get a nice bed of grass going you can rake out the hay.

7. Don't freakin' roll it. Compacting a lawn is stupid. Walk back and forth across your seeded lawn a couple times. All you need to do is ensure contact with soil, not compress your yard into concrete.

8. Water. You have to water at least 3 times a day: in the morning, once midday, and evening. Doesn't have to be a super-soaking, but sufficient to maintain the wetness of soil throughout the day. You don't want it to dry out. Once the grass is a couple inches, reduce to a couple times a day for a longer duration.

There ya go.

Option A2:

Yeah, go ahead and get the sod for part 6. Make sure they don't drop the sod in direct sun otherwise work really fast getting it down. Not much of a big deal. Just keep your seems together without overlap and roll. Take a small potting rake to loosen the soil a bit on the back of sod as you roll out. Move along to step 8.

Option B: Be lazy, get a case of beer, and hire some sorry saps to do this all for you.