Beware of Cheap Imitations
Low Grade Resins
Artificial grass manufactured with low grade resins can leave your lawn left in ruin. Low grade resisn means the turf can fade or melt due to poor UV stabilizers in the resin and wear prematurely due to excessive fillers. We are seeing artificial grasses fail and fall apart in as early as 3 to 4 years after installation. With a quality made yarn you can expect a product lifetime of 10 to 30 years depending on its usage. Though not all yarn is created equal. Many companies are skimping on the resin quality and using fillers to lower costs. It’s not just an issue with the yarn fibers; you have to watch out for poor quality latex backings as well. Most artificial turf has a urethane secondary coating as opposed to latex. Latex-backed turf products use too much filler in the latex, causing the backing to crack and crumble.
So keep in mind if you buy cheap artificial turf from a company you could be in for an unpleasant surprise. You get what you pay for most of the time!
Lead Contaminated Artificial Grass
When New Jersey health officials discovered lead contaminates in artificial turf, it caught the attention of consumers. Your children and pets could be exposed by inhaling or swallowing lead-laced turf fibers. Fibers with lead also have a higher surface temperature in the sun that could reach as high as 200 degrees possibly causing burns to exposed skin. NexGen Lawns’ artificial grass is Lead-Free to protect you and your family!
Poor Climatic Dimensional Stability
Synthetic turf backings with poor climatic dimensional stability expands and contracts with changes in temperature and humidity causing seam ruptures and “line dancing.” NexGen Lawns synthetic turf has the most dimensionally stable backing available on all its products. One misleading conception in the industry concerning primary backing is the pic-rate. Pic-rate measures the tightness of the woven primary backing. The thickness on the other hand of the two woven backings can be completely different. You can have two primary backings woven together, one 18 pic and the other 13 pic, but one company can use a thinner backing than the other with the same pic rate. How do you know if you’re getting the thicker double primary? Unfortunately you don’t unless you go with a proven and trusted company like NexGen Lawns.