The Artificial Lawn Company Profile
Artificial Lawn Company (ALC) is a leading company which provides superior quality artificial grass for gardens, landscapes and play areas. The company has cultivated a wide array of realistic synthetic turf which is competitively priced to suit a wide range of applications. ALC has over ten years of experience in supplying and installing artificial grass and lawns and the friendly and helpful sales team is available to provide advice and information on specifying the most appropriate product.
Artificial lawn is suitable for creating a perfect and natural looking grassed area which is extremely hardwearing and environmentally friendly. Typical applications include ornamental lawns, play areas, schools and nurseries, lawns for dogs, sports practice areas, roof gardens and terraces, exhibitions and commercial areas. The artificial grass is covered by an eight-year guarantee.
Benefits of Artificial Lawn
Artificial grass offers a wide range of benefits over real grass which includes:
- Easy to maintain and requires only occasional brushing
- UV stable, so will not fade
- Artificial grass will last around ten years in a sports area and 20 years upwards in a leisure environment
- Easy to clean with a hose and disinfectant
- Can even be used for dogs in kennels, training surfaces and agility runs
- Suitable for sports activities such as football, tennis and basketball
- Easy to install
- The porous surface allows for drainage
- The soft polyethylene fibres are soft to touch and non-abrasive
- Suitable for use by children and dogs
- Can be installed on most slopes except very steep inclines
- Non-filled grasses are suitable for balconies, terraces and roof gardens
- No bald or dusty patches
- No muddy areas
- Environmentally friendly as it does not require watering and chemical fertilizers and weed killers are not needed.
Installation Service
ALC offers an installation service throughout the South East and London. The installers are directly employed by ALC and will lay the lawn with care and precision to ensure a perfect looking lawn. The professional team will carry out the whole installation including clearance and preparation through to removal of rubbish, leaving an immaculate looking lawn. As well as grass surfaces, ALC can provide a total external works package to include fencing, play equipment, landscaping and wet pour safety surfaces in a wide range of colours, shapes and thicknesses.
Products
There are various types of Artificial Lawn available to suit particular environments and usages, options include:
- Value Grass: Value Grass is a 7mm straight pile grass which is suitable for display purposes only and is not suitable for lawns. Value Grass is available in Verdant Green in 2m widths.
- Easy: Easy is a 15mm straight and curled short pile grass which is made up of a 4-tone colour mix and is ideal for lawns. Easy is available in 4m lengths.
- Landscape Lawn: Landscape Lawn is a sand filled, hardwearing straight pile artificial grass with a pile length of 30mm and comes in a 2-tone colour mix in 2m and 4m widths.
- Premier Curl: Premier Curl offers the option of being sand filled and is a dense, hardwearing curled pile of 13mm. Premier Curl is available in Olive Green in 4m widths.
- Fine Lawn: Fine Lawn can be laid with or without sand infill and is a perfect solution for ornamental lawns. Fine Lawn has a straight and curled 25mm pile, with a 3-tone mix and is available in 2m and 4m widths.
- Luxury Lawn: Luxury Lawn is considered to be the most realistic looking lawn grass available and features a 40mm straight and curled pile in a 4-tone colour mix and comes in 2m and 4m widths.
- Play Lawn: Play Lawn is a 40mm pile grass which has been rubber filled for a soft feel and is ideal for sports and play areas.
- Lawnflex Shock Pads: Lawnflex is an interlocking tile which provides a softer feel and additional drainage when laid underneath artificial lawns, especially roofs and concrete areas.
- Grassflex Shock Pads: Grassflex is an impact absorbing interlocking underlay which is installed underneath artificial grass and provides a tested safety surface with 1.5m critical fall height. Each tile is 35mm thick, 2.25m long and 0.95mm wide.
- Additional Products: Other products available include geotextile weed membranes to control weed growth, jointing tape for linking two pieces of artificial grass, lawn surface sand to provide weight, jointing adhesives, rubber crumb surface fillers for impact absorbency in Play Lawn.
Artificial Lawn Uses
ALC offers artificial grass surfaces to suit a variety of applications and listed below are some suggestions and recommended products. Options include:
- Garden Lawns: A mud-free lawn which does not require mowing or watering and will look good all-year-round. Easy, Premier Curl, Fine Lawn and Luxury Lawn are ideal for general garden use.
- Schools and Nurseries: The artificial grass used in schools and nurseries must be hardwearing, soft and safe. When used in conjunction with impact absorbing underlays, the surfaces can provide a critical fall height of 1.5m. Recommended options include Play Lawn, Premier Curl, Landscape and Luxury.
- Lawns for Dogs: The Landscape and Luxury ranges are suitable for gardens with dogs in domestic and commercial applications and can be easy cleaned.
- Sports Practice Areas: Artificial grass is ideal for practising sport on. Premier Curl is ideal for putting greens, Landscape provides a firm bounce for tennis and basketball and Play, Landscape and Luxury are ideal for football. For larger sports areas and pitches, ALC can provide other grass solutions which are not listed within the standard range.
- Roof Gardens and Terraces: Artificial grasses are perfect for roof gardens, balconies and terraces as they are lightweight and porous. ALC recommend non-filled grasses such as Fine Lawn and Luxury Lawn.
- Display and Exhibition: Artificial lawn provides a durable and cost effective way of covering large or small exhibition areas and window displays. Premier Curl provides a cheaper covering and Fine and Easy Lawns offer a more natural appearance.
- Commercial Areas: Local Authorities, architects, developers and leisure industry managers are turning more and more to artificial grass surfaces as they are a cost effective alternative to the real thing. Landscape, Luxury and Premier Curl are regularly specified for paths, caravan parks, roundabouts, picnic areas, swimming pool surrounds and construction site entrances.
- Sports Surfaces: Active Leisure Contracts is ALC's sister company which specialises in the construction of artificial grass sports surfaces.
The Artificial Lawn Company prides itself on providing domestic and commercial clients with a comprehensive range of high quality artificial grass products. The experienced and knowledgeable team has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the products and can assist in specifying the most appropriate solution for any application. Installations are carried out by fully trained fitters and all products come with a manufacturer’s guarantee.