🧼 Why Should I Clean My Turf?

Artificial turf is essentially an outdoor carpet. Like the floors in your home, the artificial turf outside your home needs regular maintenance to look and feel its best.

Protect Your Investment

Your turf is an investment. Financially, you want to protect your investment and ensure that it is worth the money you paid for it. Well-maintained artificial turf can last 8 to 25 years, with most high-quality products lasting 15 to 20 years with proper maintenance. The exact lifespan depends on factors such as the quality of the turf, installation, amount of foot traffic, and climate.

However, aside from being a financial investment, your turf is an emotional investment in the comfort of your home. The memories you and your loved ones create every time you get together are something far more valuable than money could ever buy.

Regular maintenance of your artificial turf will help protect both the financial and emotional aspects of your investment, ensuring years of enjoyment to come.

The Threat of Dust and Debris

Here in El Paso, Texas, and New Mexico, we experience a large amount of dust storms. These storms tend to blow in dust, allergens, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other debris. While bacteria does not directly erode artificial turf, it can cause deterioration by creating a destructive biofilm on the fibers of your artificial turf, beginning to break down the turf’s components over time.

Organic matter from things like pet waste, food debris, sweat, oil, and skin cells can lead to an environment that promotes bacterial and fungal growth. This can lead to odors, discoloration, and eventual fiber degradation if your turf is not properly cleaned and sanitized.

If your synthetic grass is discolored or smells, it is potentially a breeding ground for bacteria and other viruses that could be harmful to you, your family, friends, children, and pets.

Stinky and discolored artificial turf is turf that no one can enjoy. We recommend cleaning your turf regularly to avoid this and to prevent the buildup of bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Our Cleaning Services

The Basic Magic Turf Cleaning Service

Our Basic Magic Turf cleaning service is designed to agitate the dirt, dust, and debris in your turf so we can vacuum it and keep it looking new.

The Premium Magic Turf Cleaning Service

However, if you want to be sure that your synthetic grass is free of fungi, viruses, and other bacteria, we recommend our Premium Magic Turf cleaning service. Our premium service also includes pressure washing and spraying a disinfectant on your artificial turf. Our disinfectant is loaded with natural proteins called enzymes that break down stains and odors at the molecular level. This makes it an effective and environmentally friendly solution that ensures your turf is not only clean to the eye, but clean and safe enough for your friends, family, children, and pets to enjoy.

The Deluxe Magic Turf Cleaning Service

For those of you that prioritize keeping your artificial turf cleaner longer in between cleanings, our Deluxe Magic Turf cleaning service also includes a granular deodorizer that we spread into your synthetic grass after we perform our cleaning service. This granular deodorizer is specifically designed to continue to clean and deodorize your turf to help remove grease, grime, harmful contaminants, odors, and stains. Of course, our granular deodorizer is also child and pet friendly, meaning you are free to enjoy your artificial turf as soon as we are done cleaning it.

Our Thorough Process

Here at Magic Turf Cleaning, we ensure that your turf is green, clean, and ready to use. Our typical turf cleaning service averages 2 to 4 hours in length due to the thorough cleaning process we use.

Turf Inspection: We will inspect your artificial turf for any wear, tear, looseness or other damage, and give you feedback on how to prevent problems in the future.

Debris Removal: We start by removing and cleaning any debris in the area and packing it up. We will never leave debris in your yard or in your trash bins. What we pick up, we take out.

Weed Removal: Afterwards, we will remove any weeds on the edge of your artificial turf or growing through it. Upon request, we also provide an herbicidal treatment for the weeds in your yard.

Metal Sweep: Next, we run a magnet sweeper over your turf to pick up any loose turf staples and other metallic debris that may have blown in with the dust storms. This is especially important if you live in a new construction area and your neighborhood is still being built. New construction areas tend to leave finishing nails and other metallic objects in the area that can be blown into your synthetic grass or left behind as construction comes to a close.

Initial Debris Blow: Continuing with our cleaning, we will then use a blower to remove any remaining loose debris in your turf.

Power Brooming: Following that, we will use a power broom on your turf to agitate any built-up dirt. Dust and dirt left unchecked in your artificial turf can compact over time. Our power broom will help to break it up and prepare it for removal. You may have noticed that heavy use of your turf, or leaving heavy objects on it—such as garden furniture or kiddie pools—tends to leave your turf fibers lying flat. However, our power broom also serves another purpose: brushing your artificial turf will help to fluff up your turf’s fibers and restore them to an upright position.

Vacuuming: After we use the power broom, we use a special turf vacuum to pick up any of the dust and dirt broken up by the power broom.

That is a lot of steps, time, and effort. This is where our basic service ends, and our premium service begins.

Power Washing (Premium & Deluxe): Following the use of a turf vacuum, we will power wash your turf to provide a deeper cleaning. Power washing your artificial turf will help to improve appearance, restore drainage, and eliminate odors and other bacteria to extend your turf’s lifespan. Power washing your turf is also an effective way to remove stubborn dirt, stains, and other harmful substances like fungi, allergens, and mold that can damage the turf or affect its performance.

Disinfectant Spray (Premium & Deluxe): After your turf is power washed, we will spray a high-quality, child- and pet-friendly disinfectant. The enzymes in our disinfectant will continue to help your artificial turf stay clean and odor-free while killing bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Granular Deodorizer (Deluxe): Finally, for our Magic Turf Deluxe service, we will spread a granular deodorizer to keep your turf staying fresher and cleaner for longer.

So we started with the question, "Why should I clean my turf?" I think after reading this, you have to ask yourself, "Why shouldn't I clean my turf?"

Remember, your turf is a financial and emotional investment. Let us help you keep your artificial turf green and clean.

Sincerely,

The Team @ Magic Turf Cleaning