Comments on: Eye on the Street http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/05/14/eye-on-the-street-312/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:40:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: smalltowngal http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/05/14/eye-on-the-street-312/#comment-219180 Tue, 15 May 2012 21:28:13 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23295#comment-219180 Seriously! That’s more work than I am willing to do to keep the inside of the house clean! It’s pretty and all, but it would create a whole new dimension of outrage when somebody let their dog poop in my yard! And cleaning up after a barbecue could be more trouble than after an indoor dinner party. …

“…For lightly soiled areas, it may be necessary to sponge mop with a five (5) percent solution of low sudsing household detergent in hot water followed by a thorough rinsing with hot water….. It is always easier to clean up a fresh spill than one that has dried and hardened. Remove any solid or paste-like deposit with a spatula or table knife. Blot up excess liquids with paper towels, a clean cloth, or a dry absorbent, such as kitty litter or fuller’s earth. Dry absorbents can then be swept or vacuumed up afterwards…..”

It continues with substantial lists of which cleaning products can be used to remove which types of stains…. Routine maintenance includes cross-brushing….. Actually, this is giving me my best laugh of the week so far.

]]> By: At Home in Decatur http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/05/14/eye-on-the-street-312/#comment-219155 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:40:53 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23295#comment-219155 Just read the maintenance instructions and they look like a lot more work than what we currently do with our sad lawn.

]]> By: AMB http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/05/14/eye-on-the-street-312/#comment-219151 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:29:48 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23295#comment-219151 Watched a lawn of this installed on InDoors Out, one of those home redo shows. This is the hot thing in dry areas such as Vegas. Laid out like a big green rug and tamped down and sort of nailed into place like carpet. Then sand is put on to hold it down, then green silica (?) sand to improve the look and make the blades stand up. The final step was fluffing the blades with a roller needle kind of thing.
It looked surprisingly good for fake grass.
They color the blades in shades now so you don’t get that uniform AstroTurf color.

]]> By: Scott http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/05/14/eye-on-the-street-312/#comment-219150 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:26:39 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23295#comment-219150 I’m sure it would be acceptable in Decatur, G Buck. It contributes to LEED points!

This may be my lawn’s saving grace:
http://www.synlawn.com/

]]> By: At Home in Decatur http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/05/14/eye-on-the-street-312/#comment-219148 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:10:51 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23295#comment-219148 +1 I want to know too. My front and back yards aren’t tiny but all the more reason to have artificial turf! How does it look in large doses? I can’t imagine it looks much worse than ours sometimes does naturally. What kind of maintenance does it need? Can you just hose it off periodically? Does it get moldy like everything else in this climate? A lawn full of moldy grass wouldn’t look nice. Does it start to smell moldy or otherwise rank? Do leaves and animal droppings cause problems? Do the squirrels and chipmunks get confused or somehow make holes in it? There’s got to be some good reasons this isn’t used on a large scale already. Sigh.

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