Astro Turf

Owaisalvi
3 min readNov 11, 2023

Tired of shaving your lawn with a mower daily?

Is there a way your grass doesn’t need to be trimmed and maintained ever?

Want a unique grassy design for your house that could serve as an eye-catching embellishment?

Then switch to artificial turfs as most of affluents have done.

Since being invented in 1960s , artificial grass rugs have been highly in demand with various companies offering different qualities and price tags. Artificial grass comes in 3 different types of materials. They can be differentiated on the basis of traits, each material has got to offer. These characteristics make each material useful for numerous applications. The options include polyethylene, polypropylene, and nylon.

Polyethylene

This material is the most common among costumers, when choosing Astro turfs. Artificial rugs made of polyethylene offer various advantages, which make them useful for following applications. 

Residential lawns:

Polyethylene turf are mostly used for residential lawns due to its smooth and natural appearance. It is soft and flexible which makes it with stand all weathers. 

Playground:

Polyethylene grass is safe and comfortable. It requires minimum maintenance as compared to its counterpart materials, which makes it ideal for playground. 

Landscaping:

It is also suitable for landscaping projects, such as parks and gardens. It displays a more realistic look then polypropylene and nylon. Such material is also UV resistant that makes it durable and hard to lose its color or appearance.

Polypropylene

Rugs made of polypropylene are affordable, however they are useful only for temporary applications because they are not UV resistant as compared to other polyethylene and nylon. 

Indoor decorations:

It is extremely durable and doesn’t react with detergents or any other nonorganic compounds. This makes it a good stain resistant and highly suitable for indoor decorations. 

Low-traffic neighborhoods:

It is considerably softer than polyethylene. The material is cheap and suitable for short term outdoor applications. 

Events and shows:

Since polypropylene rugs are affordable and durable, it can be useful for temporary usage for decorating events and shows.

Nylon

Nylon is the strongest as compared to the other materials that are used to make astro turf. It is highly resistive to various chemicals and oils, making it advantageous for a wide range of applications. 

Sports fields:

Nylon is highly durable and easily washable. It is also not much expensive. The ease of maintenance makes it suitable to be used in sports fields.

Golf tee lines:

Nylon has the flexibility and strength, despite of the fact that such a lightweight material it is, makes it extensively useful material to be applied on tee lines of golf and other sports fields. 

Indoor sports facilities:

Nylon turfs are worth it when it comes to indoor sports facilities and also training surfaces because it is resilient and less likely to get damaged, even if being consistently used for long.

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