Installation Guide

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Turf
Evolutions, LLC 175 Cumberland Park Drive phone 866-966-TURF
Suite 101 fax -904 827 9426
[e-mail] St. Augustine, FL 32095 www.turfevolutions.com
Materials Needed for a Landscape Application
Base Stone - Three to four inches of DG, decomposed granite or similar.
Infill- Silica Sand around 25 to 40 mesh.
Tools- Base - all hand tools including shovel, pickaxe, landscape rakes, and a hand tamp. Other
equipment needed, wheel barrow, sod cutter for grass removal water filled roller, or plate
tamp.
Layout - measuring tapes, marking paint and marking flags.
Synthetic Turf – utility knife, sharp scissors, stiff bristled brooms, marking crayon/pen,
walk behind hand spreaders, water filled roller or plate tamp.
Base Construction
1. Remove the organic topsoil with a shovel or sod
cutter, and take off site. Cavity to be 3-6” deep,
depending on the amount of base stone needed.
2. At the depth of compactable soil, make sure the
base is sloped to drain any water that
may protrude into base cavity.
3. Depending on surroundings, a drain tile may be
needed on low side of area to take
water away from cavity. In this case, dig trench
large enough to lay in clean drain stone, 4”
perforated drain tile, and cover with another layer
of clean stone.
4. Add and level layer of DG- crushed stone within
.5” of the height of surrounding grass, then
compact with roller or tamp.
5. When compacting base you may have to keep
material dampened to maximize compaction.
6. Where the base meets any surrounding hardscape,
make sure the space between the top of the stone
base and the top of the hardscape (sidewalk, porch,
pavers) is the same from end to end.