What does the backing weight tell me about artificial turf? Which part of the turf is the backing?
 | Apr 29, 2020 5:10 AM |
The artificial grass consists of four major components: Straight finer blades, thatching, primary backing and secondary backing. When people are referring to backings, normally the combination of primary an secondary backing. Primary backing of artificial grass from Global Syn-Turf are two layers of polypropylene cloth as a standard, such backings not only provide solid base for grass constructions, but also help with the steadiness of our turf: to minimize the expansions and contractions when temperatures change, therefore, technically the thicker the primary backing is better. The secondary backing on the other hand can be a bit different, it is a glue layer to hold all the fibers together, so it is not necessarily all true the thicker the glue is the better. Here is why: the secondary backing is all about its functionality, we need to make sure the glue will sink through the primary backing to ensure the glue’s sticking and holding strength, our unique coating techniques can make sure process happen without wasting much of glue which meaninglessly increase the cost.
By all above said, the weight of backing is more of technical specification of artificial grass, which not necessarily reflects the functionality of the products, nor 100% contributes to the value of the artificial grass. Of course, too light of the backing weight should be red flagged while considering the overall quality of artificial turf product by understanding the typical backing weight ranges.
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It is a very question. Most of the real natural grass' face weight is right about 60 oz., hopefully this can help you to make up your mind: All of Global Syn-Turf's products ranging from 50 oz to 90 oz. resembles the natural grass look very well, one advantage of having higher face weight is that the grass will standing up better and technically last longer.
Read Answer: What is the face weight for regular real grass?
The only green backing artificial grass products we have are our brand new Full Recycle Series! I just barely release this product series onto the market and all the information is now available on our website. You can definitely find all the details on the following links as there are two different products of this series:
Read Answer: Can you tell me more about the green backing turf?
Face weight is a technical specification term from carpet industry. Since artificial grass was invented by carpet industry and the constructions of turf is almost identical as carpet, many of the carpet spec terms are now being used for artificial grass products. There are four main components of artificial grass: straight fibers, thatching, primary backing and secondary backing. To make artificial grass a "grass", most people see only the fibers and thatching: again, this is very similar to the carpet, most of us see the surface of it, knowing how it looks and how it feels. Such visual part are also the main spec of artificial grass. The face weight of artificial grass is referring to the weight of straight fiber and the thatch per square yard. Straight fibers and thatch fibers are tufted onto the primary backing, so if we pull out all these fibers from an areas of one square yard and weight them, the result will be the face weight for that particular turf product. Very obviously, the heavier the face weight, the more of materials used, therefore the more expensive the product.
Read Answer: What is the face weight of the artificial grass?
Technically the answer is yes! This is the law of physics: the thicker (heavier) the material, the more durable. However we offer 15 year limited warranty on all our our products and even lower weight artificial grass offered by us can be just as durable and long lasting. The heavier turf will go well beyond the 15 years mark under normal weather and wear/tear up to 25 years, and lighter materials will be couple of years shy. Please feel free to contact us by phone, email or this online form if you have any further questions, thank you: https://www.globalsynturf.com/free-quote
Read Answer: If I'm looking for durable turf, should I be looking for heavy weight?
Generally speaking, we have only one backing system: primary backing which is the polypropylene cloth and secondary backing which is the glue. However, we do have two different type of glues for secondary backing: polyethylene base glue to be used on all our Full Recycle products, and polyurethane glues for all other products. As far as backing colors go, we use black colored polyurethane glues, clear color for Full Recycle series and blue color on our Cool Blue series. It will be a great idea to get some samples of these different products, please call or email us for your sample inquiries or simply fill out this online form: https://www.globalsynturf.com/free-quote
Read Answer: How many different types of backing do you offer for your turf?
In my opinion, face weight of artificial grass products matters regardless the application. The face weight of an artificial grass product is one of the key specifications showing how much materials used: the higher the faceweight, the more of the materials and more dense and tends to be last longer which is a simple interpretation of law of physics. However, artificial grass should not be all amount faceweight, it should be a balance of faceweight, realistic look and feel and cost: we call such a balanced combination “value”. We guarantee that our artificial grass products offers the best value on the market, even products lower faceweight will last you a long time to meet the most stringent application requirements.
Read Answer: Does the face weight matter for a residential lawn?
