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Artificial grass lawns, backyard putting greens, pet turf, and playground surfaces, installed over a base built to drain. Tell us what you need and you get a call back with a real number. Free quote, no obligation.
Lubbock Artificial Turf is an artificial turf installation service for homeowners in Lubbock, Texas. We install artificial grass lawns, backyard putting greens, pet turf and dog runs, playground surfaces, and pool and patio turf, front yard, back yard, side yard, or all three. Quotes are free and there is no obligation.
Turf is a different job on the South Plains. Caliche and hardpan sit a few inches down in plenty of West Texas yards, January brings hard freezes, July brings triple-digit heat and steady wind, and watering limits make a natural lawn expensive to keep alive. That is why our installs start underneath the grass: the sub-base, the compaction, and the drainage decide how a yard looks in five years far more than the turf you pick on day one.
Turf that fails almost never fails at the blades. It fails at the base, the seams, or the edge.
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Each of these six jobs uses a different turf spec and a different base build.
Old sod comes out, compacted crushed base goes in graded to drain, and landscape-grade turf around a 1.25 to 2 inch pile goes down over it. Front yards get clean cuts against the walk and the planting beds; back-yard seams run away from the patio door, so you are never looking down a line.
Ready to lose the mower for good?
Pet turf is a different build: fully perforated backing for flow-through drainage, a base graded with no low spots to hold liquid, and an antimicrobial or zeolite infill instead of plain sand. Fibers are short and dense so nails don't snag. Rinse it with a hose, no mud in the house, no dead patches.
Need a yard your dogs can't wreck?
A putting green is built to a tighter tolerance than a lawn: short nylon pile, heavier sand infill, a laser-flat base rolled smooth, and contours built in where you want break. We cut the cups, add a taller-pile fringe collar, and set the green speed you ask for.
Want to putt at home every evening?
Play areas get a shock-absorbing foam pad under the turf and a softer, taller fiber on top, forgiving under a swing set and cooler underfoot than rubber mulch. Same drainage build as everything else, so rain goes through instead of pooling where the kids play.
Building a softer place to land?
Turf around a pool has to shed water fast and put up with splash-out and chlorine. We keep the base free-draining, run the edge tight to the coping or the paver band, and use a fiber that doesn't hold heat the way a dark deck does.
Tired of clippings blowing into the pool?
Already have turf? We power broom matted fibers upright, top off settled infill, re-glue open seams, re-fasten lifted edges, and deodorize pet areas. Older turf can often come back to looking new for a fraction of what replacing it costs.
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Tired-looking turf usually has one of six specific things wrong, and most are repairable without replacing the yard.
"Artificial turf" is not one product. Pile height, face weight, backing, and infill each get chosen for the job.
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Most residential turf jobs follow the same five steps, whether it's a 200-square-foot dog run or the whole back yard. Here is what the work actually involves.
Turf projects start by sizing the area and reading the ground: where water runs, and what sits under the existing grass. This is also where the turf itself gets picked, with pile height and infill matched to how the area gets used. Square footage is what a turf price is normally built from.
Old sod, roots, and three to four inches of soil come out. Sprinkler heads get capped and lines marked. Anything that would telegraph through the turf later, rock, stumps, old edging, comes out now.
Crushed base goes in, wetted and compacted in lifts with a plate compactor, graded to fall away from the house and toward where water should go. This step decides whether the yard is still flat in five years.
Rolls are laid with the grain one direction, left to relax in the sun, then cut to the perimeter. Seams close on tape and adhesive. Edges fasten to bender board or a nailer board with galvanized spikes.
Infill is dropped and power-broomed in so the blades stand up and the surface sits firm. The yard gets blown clean and the finished perimeter walked, and the upkeep is simple from there: rinse it, broom the traffic paths.
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Installed artificial turf runs about $5 to $20 per square foot nationally, and most residential jobs land in the middle of that band: at $8 to $14 per square foot, a 500-square-foot yard is roughly a $4,000 to $7,000 project.
Nobody can price your yard from a web page. The ranges below are published national figures, so you can sanity-check any quote you're handed, including ours.
Residential lawn replacement
$8 to $14 / sq ft
A typical 500 sq ft yard lands around $4,000 to $7,000
Pet turf and dog runs
$10 to $18 / sq ft
Premium fibers, flow-through backing, antimicrobial infill
Backyard putting greens
$15 to $40 / sq ft
A 500 sq ft green typically runs $7,500 to $20,000
Commercial turf
$12 to $20+ / sq ft
Bigger footprints, so the ticket scales with square footage
Ranges above are national published figures: lawn and pet turf from cost guides such as Angi and HomeGuide, putting greens and commercial work from Turf Network's cost calculator and industry figures. None of them is a quote. Your real number depends on your square footage, your site, and the turf spec you pick.
Square footage and minimum job size
Cost per square foot drops as the area grows. Small side yards and patios often price higher per foot, because crew, equipment, and base delivery cost about the same on a small patch as on one ten times the size.
Turf spec
Pile height, face weight (ounces of yarn per square yard), and fiber type are the biggest single line item. Heavier, denser turf costs more per roll and holds up longer under traffic.
What has to come out first
Live sod, tree roots, old concrete, and buried rock all add demo hours and haul-off. A bare or already-dead yard is cheaper to start from.
Base depth and grading
More base and more compaction cost more. Slopes, low spots that pond, and yards with no gate wide enough for a wheelbarrow all add time.
Drainage work
Most yards drain fine on a properly built base. Some need a french drain, a drain box, or regrading first, and that's quoted separately.
Infill and add-ons
Antimicrobial pet infill, playground shock pads, putting cups and fringe collars, and paver or bender-board borders each move the per-foot number.
As a typical industry range, a residential yard runs two to three working days on site once the job starts. Here is where that time goes.
1Measure & quote
Typically one visit
Sizing the area, checking drainage and gate access, pricing by the square foot
2Demolition & excavation
Half a day to 1 day
Old sod, roots, and 3 to 4 inches of soil out; sprinkler heads capped and lines marked
3Base build, compaction & grading
Half a day to 1 day
Crushed base in, wetted and compacted in lifts, graded to fall away from the house
4Turf layout, seaming & fastening
About 1 day
Rolls relaxed, cut to the perimeter, seamed on tape, edges spiked to the nailer board
5Infill, power brooming & walkthrough
Half a day
Infill broomed in, yard blown clean, final walkthrough and care rundown
These are typical industry ranges, not a schedule promise. Putting greens with contours, drainage work, and hard-access properties run longer, and every crew works to its own calendar.
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Dig a few inches down in many Lubbock yards and you hit caliche, a hardpan layer that doesn't soak up water the way topsoil does. That changes the excavation, and it means the compacted base under the turf, not the ground beneath it, has to do the draining. That's why reading where water runs matters before any base goes in.
Lubbock is the 10th-windiest city in the U.S., with winds averaging 12.4 mph per NWS climate normals, so perimeter fastening and infill weight aren't optional; a loose edge doesn't stay put here. The same normals put 92 days a year at 90°F-plus and around 13 days over 100°F, yet January still brings hard freezes; the record low is −17°F. The Weather Channel named Lubbock America's "Toughest Weather City" in 2013. Turf that lasts here needs UV-stabilized fiber and a base compacted well enough that freeze-thaw cycles can't heave it.
Water is the long game. Lubbock averages just 18.33 inches of rain a year per NWS climate normals and leans heavily on the Ogallala Aquifer, which is being drawn down at a long-term unsustainable rate; the city is adding a pipeline from Lake Alan Henry expected to supply 3.2 billion gallons annually. A yard that needs zero irrigation takes that line item off your summer water bill, and off the aquifer.
Lawns, pet areas, putting greens, and pool surrounds. Watch how the turf finishes against walks, beds, and coping.
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Lubbock Artificial Turf covers Lubbock and the towns around it. Just outside this list? Call and ask, most of the South Plains is a short drive.
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We install for property managers, businesses, and facilities around Lubbock, where the math is simple: no irrigation, no mowing crew, and a surface that looks the same in a February leasing photo as in June. Commercial turf is normally quoted from plans or a site walk rather than a phone call.
Courtyards, entry medians, pool decks, and on-site dog parks. Heavier face weight where residents walk it every day, plus a drainage build that survives a pressure washer.
Street-facing beds, patio floors, and rooftop decks. Turf keeps a frontage green straight through a watering restriction that would brown out sod.
Batting cages, sled tracks, gym floors, practice areas, and small fields. Nylon or blended fibers, heavier infill, and shock pads where the sport calls for it.
Play surfaces with impact padding underneath, plus turf on the strips that get walked bare by the end of a school year.
Managing a property around Lubbock? Call (806) 630-0409 or get a free quote.
Send over the basics and you get a call back with a real number. Free, no obligation.
Rather talk it through? Call (806) 630-0409
Installed turf runs roughly $5 to $20 per square foot nationally, and most residential lawn jobs land around $8 to $14, so a typical 500-square-foot yard runs about $4,000 to $7,000. Your number depends on square footage, turf spec, demo, and drainage. Quotes are free and there is no obligation. Full pricing by yard size, and what pushes a quote up or down, is in our Lubbock turf cost guide.
Yes. Pet installs use a fully perforated backing, a base graded with no low spots, and an antimicrobial or zeolite infill instead of plain sand. Urine drains straight through and rinses off with a hose. No mud tracked inside, no dead patches. The drainage base, antimicrobial infill and seam details that make it hold up are on our pet turf installation page.
Yes. UV-stabilized fibers are built for full sun, and turf doesn't go dormant in a freeze or brown out in a drought. It warms up in direct August sun like any surface; a rinse or a shade sail brings it down. Wind isn't an issue once the perimeter is fastened and the infill is in. How infill, seams and edging get specified for that movement is covered in our infill, seams and edging guide.
Nearly all of it. Turf needs no irrigation; the only water it uses is the occasional rinse of a pet area. What that's worth depends on your yard size and your water rates, pull a July bill and work backwards. Pairing turf with drought planting to cut irrigation further is on our xeriscape and drought yard page.
As a typical industry range, two to three days: one for demo and base, one to two more for turf, seaming, and infill. Bigger yards, contoured greens, and drainage work run longer. Scheduling is down to the crew and the scope of the job, so ask when you get your number. The full excavation, base and seaming sequence is broken down on our artificial lawn replacement page.
Manufacturer service-life ratings vary a lot between products, and in practice the base underneath, the traffic on top, and sun exposure decide more than the spec sheet does. A properly built base usually outlasts the turf sitting on it. Sun, traffic, and infill upkeep decide where in that range you land. We run the lifetime numbers against sod, water and mowing on our is artificial turf worth it page.
Yes, through the perforated backing and out through the compacted base underneath. Drainage is a base problem, not a turf problem. A yard that ponds today needs that fixed before turf goes down, and it's one of the first things worth checking on any turf project. Draining over a hard surface takes a different build, covered on our turf on concrete and patios page.
Very little. Blow off leaves, rinse pet areas, and power broom the high-traffic paths once or twice a year. Infill gets topped off every few years. No mowing, no watering, no seeding, no fertilizer. For deeper cleaning, pet odor and infill top-ups, see our turf cleaning service page.
Same family, different generations. AstroTurf is a 1960s brand name that stuck, and what people call fake grass or an artificial lawn today is modern synthetic turf: multi-tone blades, a brown thatch layer, and a draining base. Whatever you call it, the quote works the same way — measured by the square foot, priced with the spec named. You can see what modern artificial grass actually looks like installed on our front yard artificial grass page.
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