Artificial Turf
Artificial Turf in Hamilton
Hamilton has the coldest winters of anywhere we work, and that is the honest case for turf here: a real lawn goes dormant, browns off and turns to mud from about May, then takes until spring to come back. Turf looks the same in July as it does in January.
The Ground Here
What we are building on in Hamilton
The soil
The Waikato basin, mostly volcanic ash soils over river terraces of alluvial sand and silt, with peat pockets scattered through the district. Hamilton also has its gully network, so a lot of sections back onto a steep bank rather than a flat boundary. Frosts are regular through winter.
What that means for the build
Ash soils hold moisture and go soft when wet, and peat settles over time, so compaction is doing more work here than the soil type suggests. On the flat river-terrace sections there is little natural fall, so the fall gets built into the base. Gully sections are an access question first: if a machine cannot reach the back, the base material goes in by barrow and we price that up front rather than finding it on day one.
Turf jobs we take on around Hamilton
- Back lawns that turn to mud over a Waikato winter
- Gully sections with tight or no machine access
- Flat terrace sections needing fall built in
- Front yards, rentals and student housing
- Steep gully banks that are unsafe to mow
- Sections on peat where a lawn has already settled unevenly
- Play areas kept out of the mud from May onwards
- And more
The full build sequence, the cleaning and maintenance side, and the questions people ask before getting a quote are all on the main artificial turf page. The excavation and drainage side is a trade of its own, and we cover what that looks like per area on the landscaping page.
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