Maintenance Notes

The degree of maintenance will depend upon the particular application and degree of use. For example, artificial sports turf installed on a soccer pitch will be used to a far greater degree than the turfing you might put in your garden at home. Hence more regular attention will have to be paid to the surface.

The main, general points of maintaining artificial turf ...

Ensure that the turf surface is kept clean and free of any moss, leaves or other litter. This is usually done by thorough brushing (by hand or a ride-on rotating brush) which also helps to keep the sand content well distributed.

Check whether the top 5mm of sand infill needs renovating to avoid compaction or it may need topping up because heavy use has affected its distribution. It's important to ensure the turf's permeability and also to prevent the artificial grass fibres from becoming damaged.

Look out for chewing gum (best removed by freezing with ice first), weeds, moss and algae. Careful attention must be paid to what chemicals are used to deal with these - there are special biodegradable sport weed killers for example.

For sports surfaces, avoid mud being brought into the playing area - one of the best ways to deal with this is to provide scraper mats or grills at any entrance point(s) so that the problem never occurs in the first instance.

Ensure that people using the sports surface have the correct footwear and don't use metal spikes for example.

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