Here’s what you need to know about synthetic grass installation, your home, and how it’s different.
Synthetic turf, artificial grass – no matter what you call it, it has evolved into something special since the 1960s.
After its first installation on a recreation area in Rhode Island, people saw the value in artificial grass for sporting venues and installed it in football and baseball stadiums across the country. It didn’t take long for the synthetic stuff to hit residential homes and turn small backyard spots into miniature putting greens for golfers who couldn’t stand to be away from the course.
Let’s take a closer look.
Fake Turf or Real Grass: The Great Illusion
Most homeowners pull out the mowers in the spring and start their annual mowing tradition, sending the smell of freshly mowed grass into the neighborhood air. It’s a smell that adults remember all the way back to their childhood, even as they had the often grueling responsibility of mowing the lawn themselves. Nothing beats walking on grass, each blade cushioning your feet and slipping between your toes. However, today’s artificial grass provides the same feeling and doesn’t require a single mowing no matter how much it rains.
Synthetic grass is a great economic alternative to real grass, providing the look and the feeling without all the maintenance chores that go along with it. It’s produced with synthetic fibers that mimic grass blades and rise from the mat in a randomized fashion like the real thing. Because of today’s advancements, synthetic turf looks like real grass up close and from far away, making people do a double take once they’ve seen and felt it for themselves.
The Major Advantages of Synthetic Grass
It takes effort to maintain a trimmed and groomed lawn if you want it to look that way through every season. You need a mower or money to spend on lawn care services if you can’t bother with the chores yourself. Fertilizers, weed killers, pesticides and other products also cost money and may not give you the expected results. Synthetic grass eliminates the need for those products and lawn care services as it requires very little maintenance. Some major advantages for switching to artificial turf include:
- You never have to mow or water the lawn again.
- You can save money that you’d spend on gas, oil and parts for the mower.
- Synthetic grass doesn’t turn brown and die during a drought.
- You can play on the lawn without damaging the turf.
- Synthetic grass prevents weed growth and pest infestations.
- Synthetic grass also has a built-in drainage system, allowing the blades to dry quickly after the rain. You don’t have to worry about patches of mud or your dog digging holes in the yard. It
- stays perfectly groomed and the same length without any maintenance on your part.
Artificial turf no longer looks like a flat, green mat on a football field.
It feels thick and soft to the touch and varies in blade length and color to create the real look of grass. You can play sports on it, let your dog run and play on it and set up lawn furniture without worrying about matting the grass or leaving behind dead patches.
A synthetic grass installation may cost more upfront than laying down sod, but it pays for itself in the long run while eliminating your lawn care chores forever.
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