The Final Answer to the Mole Problem on the Lawn

There must be thousands of ideas that have been proposed in the prevention of molehills appearing on a lawn.
None of them has proved to work that I have heard of, bottles buried with the tops at ground level are supposed to cause a whistling noise when the wind blows, as we have discovered with wind turbines it all depends on the wind blowing.
Small electric gadgets that make a sound that proves unattractive to moles, this needs attention and how far apart must they be to have an effect.
Mole traps, you catch a few but they have relatives who do not live far away.
An idea that I proposed about 5 years ago has stood the test of time, no maintenance is needed, it has just got on with the job and is likely to keep going for many years.
Moles live under the soil, this is mentioned for the benefit of those who have yet to experience the problem, they burrow along looking for worms, as they burrow they have to get rid of the soil that they have moved, this involves them pushing all this soil up above the surface into a molehill.
They also dig along pushing the tunnel upwards as they progress which forms a ridge on the surface, this is not too troublesoime as a roller can push them down but they repeat the performance a few days later.
My thought was to stop the little blighters from pushing the soil up at all.
Being the originator of and still the owner of Hamster Baskets, where we make anything in wire, this was my world and a wire mesh came to mind.
Our lawn looked very similar to the result of the First World War trenches, absolute disaster.
it was certainly not a graceful sweep of smooth lawn and something had to be done.
We took all the turf off, smoothed down the surface to the shape and contours that we wanted and laid out 3/4" galvanised chicken wire, overlapping it by about 6" at the joins, then laid new turf directly over this.
When done it was a new lawn, just as it was intended, on every patch of ground nearby moles still disturb the ground and provide mounds of earth to use in potting up plants, but the lawn has not had a molehill or a mole tunnel disturbing it now for the last 4 years.
Incidentally should you need to replace any odd patch of turf, the mesh is at just the right depth throughout allowing the existing turf to be skimmed off with a spade at exactly the right depth to replace the the new turf.
If planting a tree or even bulbs the mesh can be cut easily for the purpose, the chance of a mole finding the exact spot to push up would mean tunneling to the exact spot without being able to push up a molehill on the way.
No mole has been hurt or deprived of anything except our lawn.
This may not be a job that you are prepared to do but it could prove to be a steady line of work for someone once you have supervised the job on your lawn.