I am so glad I made the decision to put Artificial Grass in my back yard. It looks so natural and real and my dog loves it. This makes my backyard so much more usable and inviting. I never thought I would like it this much.
Great question! This response will contain a lot of information, so let’s break it down into two sections, starting with the “clean” factor regarding different types of plastics. Hypothetically, let’s assume that the product was made of 100% recycled materials. Depending on how the materials are re-processed, post-consumer is usually the least “clean” when compared to virgin or actual plastic because of the variability of the feedstock. Even with blending, which adds overall strength, neither post-consumer nor post-industrial recycled materials can ever achieve 100% of mechanical properties of virgin materials. The degradation of these properties has a direct effect on safety factors and long term performance measures such as fatigue. This is not to say recycled plastics cannot be used in various applications, but does explain why recycled materials often have lower safety ratings. In other words, theoretically, you could have a 100% recycled material product. However, this product would never pass safety tests due to how weak the material would be. At GST, while we do care about the environment, safety is ALWAYS a top priority, as can be seen on our lead and UV testing results.
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Like walking on anything, there will be normal sound effect if you listen closely to it, same for walking on artificial turf surfaces, but it defiantly not to a "noise" level. I have found that during cold days when the artificial grass fibers get a bit more stiffer, when you walk on it, you can hear a bit more. But during normal warm days, you barely can hear anything while walking on the grass.
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As far as I am aware that most of HOA won’t bother to regulate artificial grass installations. Some more restricted HOA might have some rules or regulations for your front yard landscaping, but I haven’t heard any cases that HOA regulate homeowners’ backyards. For state of California which is considered the most regulated among the entire nation, previous governor Jerry Brown has singed a las to prohibit HOA from restricting artificial grass installations. Artificial grass is considered as drought tolerant landscaping options, therefore it is encouraged to be installed with government rebates incentives. Similar incentive programs are also offered in many other states.
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The first product I recommend is our High Sierra, you can find the details at this link:https://www.globalsynturf.com/high-sierra. This is a product with color very close to St. Augustine grass, with very tall fibers and super fluffy.
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Generally speaking the thatch of artificial grass has two main purpose: 1. To help the turf fibers standing up; 2. To make the turf look more natural. Hopefully this answers your question, and please let us know if you have any other concerns by phone or email: [email protected].
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There are two main components of artificial grass surface: straight fibers/blades and thatching. The straight fiber/blades are the parts replicating the real grass, they are straight, green. Thatching is the curled part of the artificial grass, most of the thatching are two colors: brown and green. Artificial grass' thatching has two main functions:
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