Artificial turf grass is the most convenient way to have beautiful greens at home. Aside from the fact that artifical turf is easy to install artificial turf is also relatively easier to maintain compared to natural grass. Nevertheless, artificial turf grass would take extra care and maintenance if you have a pet at home. Its part and parcel of having a pet to have to clean urine and solid wastes. Since your pets would likely do it in the artifical turf youd just have to do the cleaning there. This will help preserve your artificial turf for longer use and help keep your home be sanitized as well.
Regularly Cleaning Needed
You would need to deodorize and sanitize your artificial turf grass at least once a month if you have a dog at home. You would even have to clean your artifical turf more often if you have more pets. One thing you are trying to remove from the artificial turf is urine. Since its hard to spot urine across your entire artificial turf, you just have to apply some enzyme cleaners all throughout the area. A gallon of such product would be enough to cover 500 square foot. Alternatively, you can also use 5% distilled vinegar or 5% to10% water and bleach solution. If you are going to use commercial products, make sure that you use something made of biodegradable materials. Avoid using products that contain alcohol. Non-foaming and low suds products are advised as residue even attracts more dirt if not rinsed well. Make sure that you rinse cleaners well to avoid this too. Make sure that you treat everything including the base materials, the backing, and the infill too.
Removing Solid Wastes
Pets also leave solid wastes on the artificial turf grass. So before you do your general cleaning, its a must that you remove them first to prevent them from spreading throughout the entire artifical turf. In fact, you need to do this as soon as you discover your pets moving bowel in the artificial turf.
To spot the solid wastes more easily, it would be best to remove all natural debris from the artificial turf grass. Leaves and twigs naturally fall on the artifical turf. But you can easily remove them using a blower. This would make finding and removing pet wastes from the artificial turf easier for you.
After removing solid wastes from the artificial turf grass, you need to follow this up with more cleaning. You should clean the specific spots of the artifical turf where you found the dirt. You would need to rinse this area with water too. Be careful that you do not spread the dirt across the entire artificial turf though.
The sooner you clean such pet wastes from the artificial turf grass the easier it will be for you. The dirt will not stick to the artificial turf blades. You wont need to use stronger cleaners on the artifical turf so there will be lesser chances of damaging it as well. So if you have pets it is important that you are ready to do the extra work to maintain the beauty and the cleanliness of your artificial turf grass.
