What is the best way to revive turf?
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First off where is your location? That will determine when you can repair your lawn damage?
Actually, WHY was the turf laid? Why not seed it, care for it properly, and have a nice lawn in one season and a great lawn the next year (speaking as one whose lawn is currently covered in that annoying white stuff)?
Have you watered the lawn since you moved in? Did they water it during the sale period?
Do not fertilize new sod until the second year.
Now if you were in a NOT new house, with NOT new yard/sod, the reason they replaced the yard with sod would most likely be dogs' waste. In that case, you have to 'sweeten' the soil, or even dig it out and replace it before seeding or re-sodding.
Dog urine and fecal material is very damaging to the usual grass in a yard.
Either way, you will be spending some $. How much $, is up to you. Seeding is least expensive, even if you have to chemically 'sweeten' the soil. I had 2 Malamutes on a concrete slab kennel and the edges were completely dead grass. We dug it out, removed soil, and spread lime (lightly) on it. Then we replaced the dug out soil with new, seeded it, watered it and by the end of summer, could not tell the old grass from the new.
We loved our dogs, but they could sure ruin a lawn!
If you're in the south like us (FL) the best advice it to water it every day. If it comes back, you've done well.