Copyright (c) 2010 Nadine Davis
When you buy artificial turf, you're going to have to make an initial out-of-pocket investment. Many people see the price tag and decide that they don't want to spend that kind of money. However, the cost of maintaining real grass is quite high. Make sure you take a realistic look at how much your real grass costs you before giving up on artificial grass.
It's already clear to see that there are huge benefits to synthetic or artificial lawns and those key benefits are going to become more and more clear in the near future, in particular noticing water rate rises.
Residential artificial turf is child friendly. The artificial grass surface has non-abrasive soft fibers, which are an ideal playing surface. Bugs, ants and other crawling insects tend to make their home elsewhere as there is no natural food source. It is pet friendly too. The artificial grass for dogs and pets makes it much easier for cleaning up. All you need to do is quickly hose it down after picking up the mess plus unlike a natural lawn, your dogs can't dig it up.
Even the look and feel of artificial turf is just like grass and it stays lush and green every day of the year. They even use artificial turf for putting greens. Forget about trampling mud into the house when it is wet and it will no longer look like a dust bowl in the dry season. The UV stabilised turf will look great no matter what time of the year.
Natural turf takes a lot of looking after, from weekly mowing, to watering, to feeding and fertilizing. All that time tidying the lawn instead of playing with the family, not to mention the on going costs.
What are the overall costs of an artificial lawn? Residential water in Brisbane costs between $1.19 per kilolitre and $1.69 per kilolitre, depending on the volume of water used by the household.Current figures from Brisbane show that a regular family household of 5 people, even meeting the restriction of 140 liters per day per person, will still pay $444 per annum including an access charge of $140 yearly.
The price of water will jump by at least $1.30 per week for people living in Brisbane under major changes announced by the State Government. The increase, which took effect July 1 2008, is to rise further each year for the next 10 years.
Installing LTS Synthetic turf will save you significantly in both the short term and the long term. Within two year of installing your artificial turf at home, you will have recovered your costs and have started to save money when you compare it to the cost if you had installed a natural turf instead.
Over a period of 15 years - the minimum life span of our high performance artificial turf - looking at an annual expense of a conservative $995.00 per year to maintain a natural lawn the expenditure is over $14,925.00 against the initial outlay of $3,300.00
The maintenance costs are very conservative and may be much higher depending on the size of lawn, the hardiness of the type of grass used and who services the lawn. If using a lawn service, the cost may be higher, if using DIY, running costs of the mower and other tools are taken into account, but still conservative.
Taking into account the increasing costs of water and the higher maintenance aspects of natural turf, it makes a whole lot of sense to go with a maintenance free lawn made from artificial turf.
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