COMPACTION

WATERLOGGING

MOSS

WEEDS

GRASS QUALITY

UNEVEN GROUND

DISEASE

Puddles and rivers forming on your surfaces everytime it rains is most commonly due to bad drainage.

The cause of water logging is the soil structure beneath the grass simply not allowing the water to drain through to the water table. This is probably due to poor soil structure or compaction.

Typical solutions:
Install drainage system - main and lateral drains plus gravel banding, verti-draining and sandbanding.

DRAINAGE SYSTEM
we have trenchers up to 120mm wide and 1M deep. Excavated soil can simply be augered to the side or loaded directly into a trailer using a clean-up conveyor.

GRAVEL BANDING
We use a Shelton Gravel Band Drainer. These gravel bands link into lateral and main drains which take the unwanted water away. This is known as secondary drainage getting surface water into the drains. Lytag is used in place of gravel in most cases due to its superior hydro-conductivity.

VERTI-DRAINING
The Verti-drain uses 13mm to 24mm diameter tines to relieve compaction. It achieves this by breaking up the soil pan below the surface. This aids surface water drainage and allows air to penetrate the soil promoting far superior root growth.

SAND BANDING
Our BLEC Vibra-Sandmaster is a one pass de-compactor and sand banding machine. It works effectively on all sportsturf with its combination of ground breaker and sandmaster working together to produce a matrix of sand slits at 260mm centres - and all this with virtually no surface disturbance. With Depths of 75mm - 175mm (depending on conditions).