Artificial Turf: Say Goodbye To Mud, Sticks, Twigs, Standing Water & Bugs

Having artificial grass contributes to your community by helping with water conservation, a reduction in greenhouse gases from the mow and blow activity, and not being a source of allergens. At a household level artificial turf is an investment that pays for itself and allows you more leisure time.

No More Mud, Sticks, or Standing Water

It eliminates virtually all issues with mud, sticks, and twigs being dragged into the house by kids and pets. In addition no more puddles or standing water on your lawn or mud being tracked into your home’s clean floors.

Synthetic grass is an easily maintained with only a leaf blower a brush and possibly a cleaning spray on occasion. It is a cost effective landscape alternative that will virtually eliminate all the inconveniences caused by a real grass lawn.

How Fast Does Artificial Turf Drain?

Drainage is decided by the base, which is why the same turf performs differently from one yard to the next. If you are in the Valley, our Sherman Oaks artificial grass installation page covers what we see locally.

Households with dogs get the most obvious benefit here, since a muddy yard and a clean floor are usually the same argument. We cover that in artificial grass and pets.

Keeping that surface clean is a light job, but it is not no job. The routine by season and by region is in maintaining an artificial grass lawn in California.

Synthetic grass features an excellent drainage rate of 30+ inches or rain per hour per square yard! Your synthetic grass lawn will not be phased by any rain storm. Standing water, the breeding ground for bugs and mosquitoes won’t be a problem. You can live with a picture perfect lawn all year round!

CLEAN – the compacted base certainly is clean in that there is nothing for the worms and grubs or gophers and other critters to be interested in. The result is no standing water for mosquitoes and animals have no attraction to the area.

Installation of “Clean” Sub-Base
The literal foundation of a high-quality installation is the compacted sub-base that is situated under the entire synthetic grass area. Just a real quick overview of how the base is installed. We dig down about 3” and remove sod and natural soil (we call this demo – short for demolition) and haul off, it’s a lot of hard physical labor.

Once done, we bring in a material technically called “Class 2 Road Base”, the optional material is called DG (decomposed granite) it is compacted to about 95% compaction. And why? It is because if turf were installed on natural soil it would not be installed on a firm surface and it would wrinkle or bubble up.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does artificial grass get muddy?

Artificial grass does not get muddy, because there is no exposed soil to turn to mud. Water passes through the backing and drains away through the compacted base below. That is the difference people notice first with dogs and children, since there is nothing to track through the house after rain. A lawn that does hold water has a base problem, not a turf problem.

Do bugs live in artificial grass?

Artificial grass gives insects far less to live in, because there is no soil, no thatch of decaying clippings, and no roots. Grubs, worms, and the gophers that hunt them have no reason to be there once the compacted base is in. Ants and spiders can still cross the surface as they would any patio, but the habitat that supports a lawn’s insect population is simply gone.

How fast does artificial turf drain after rain?

Quality artificial turf drains at 30 or more inches of rain per hour per square yard, well beyond anything Southern California weather delivers. In practice a properly installed lawn is usable again very shortly after rain stops. The limiting factor is never the turf backing, it is whether the base underneath was built and compacted to carry that water away.