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Lubbock Artificial Turf publishes ranges instead of dodging the question, because the first thing anyone wants to know is whether this is a $3,000 project or a $12,000 one. National cost guides including Angi and HomeGuide put installed artificial turf at roughly $5 to $20 per square foot, with most residential lawns landing between $8 and $14. For a typical 500-square-foot yard that works out to about $4,000 to $9,000 installed.
Those are published national ranges, not a quote, and they are on this page so you can hold any bid up against them, including ours. A real Lubbock number comes from measuring your yard and looking at two things that move price more than anything else: what has to come out first, and how the water leaves.
What follows is the honest breakdown, which parts of the job carry the cost, what pushes a project to the top of the range, and what a complete written bid should say. If a quote you have been handed is one round number with nothing itemized behind it, this page will tell you what is missing from it.
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Landscape turf is priced by pile height, face weight, and backing type, and the spread between a builder-grade roll and a premium one is real money across a whole yard. A quote should name the product, not just say 'turf'. Face weight is the number that tracks durability most closely: heavier means more fiber per square yard, which is what keeps a lawn from matting under traffic.
Existing grass, roots, and a few inches of soil have to come out and go somewhere, and haul-off is charged by volume. A yard with dead bermuda over caliche costs less to strip than one with mature roots, tree circles, or an old irrigation system to cap. If two bids differ by a thousand dollars, this is usually where it hides.
Crushed rock brought in, spread, graded to fall, and compacted in lifts is the layer nothing else works without. Base depth is a spec, typically stated in inches, and cutting it is invisible on install day and obvious two summers later when the surface dips. Any bid should state the depth.
Infill is sold by the pound and the type matters, silica sand for lawns, coated or zeolite blends for pet areas at a higher cost per bag. Seams and the perimeter are labor, not material: nailer boards, bender board, or spikes at close spacing. In the tenth-windiest city in the United States, at an average 12.4 miles per hour, the perimeter is not the place a bid should be saving money.
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Two yards of the same size can quote thousands apart. These are the reasons, in the order they usually matter.
Everything comes in and the old yard goes out through whatever gap exists. A wide gate that takes a small loader is the cheap case. A narrow side yard where base rock moves by wheelbarrow is labor, and labor is the line that grows.
Turf drains through its backing and out through the base, so a yard that ponds today has a grading problem that turf will not solve. Regrading, and in stubborn yards a french drain or drain box, is real added scope. It is also the difference between a surface that lasts and one that smells.
Price per square foot usually falls as the area grows, because mobilization, demolition setup, and crew time spread across more surface. Small pet runs and putting greens sit at the high end per foot for exactly that reason. Compare totals, not just rates.
Pet systems with flow-through backing and specialty infill run above lawn turf, often in the $10 to $18 per square foot range nationally. Putting greens carry their own surface and a laser-graded base. Choosing a shorter, denser fiber for a dog run is not an upsell, it is the thing that makes it work.
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Every honest turf number is assembled the same way. If yours skipped a step, that is worth a question.
Not the lot, not an estimate off a satellite photo, the surface that will be covered, with the cuts and curves it really has. Square footage is the spine of the whole price.
Where water runs today and how equipment gets in. These two decide scope more than anything else on site, and they are the reason a quote should involve someone actually standing in the yard.
Pile height, face weight, backing, infill type and pounds per square foot. Named, in writing, so two bids can be compared on the same terms.
Inches of base, compaction in lifts, and what gets removed and hauled off. This is the half of the job you will never see again once it is covered.
The total, the area, and the rate that connects them. A bid that shows all three is a bid you can check. One round figure with nothing behind it is a guess wearing a suit.
Published national guides put installed artificial turf at about $5 to $20 per square foot, most residential lawns at $8 to $14, and pet systems higher at roughly $10 to $18 because of the flow-through backing and specialty infill. A 500-square-foot yard at the middle of the lawn range lands around $4,000 to $7,000; the same yard with difficult access, heavy demolition, and a drainage fix can reach the top of the range.
Set against that, a Lubbock lawn is a recurring bill. The city holds outdoor watering to two days a week by house number from April through September, and the water still has to go on. Nobody can promise what any particular household saves, and we will not print a payback figure we cannot verify, but the arithmetic is worth doing with your own water bills in front of you before comparing turf to another summer of trying.
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(806) 630-0409Because the yard is only one of the inputs. Two bids can differ on turf product, base depth, infill type and load, whether demolition and haul-off are included, and whether a drainage fix is in scope. That is why the itemized version matters: the cheapest number is often the one with the base depth quietly reduced or the haul-off left out.
It costs several times more up front and nothing to water. Whether it comes out ahead depends on your water bill, how long you stay in the house, and what you were spending on mowing and reseeding. We would rather you run that math yourself than take a payback number from a company that wants the sale.
No. Quotes are free and there is no obligation, and that includes the visit to measure and read the drainage. If the price does not work, that is the end of it, no follow-up calls.
Fair depends on scope, which is the honest answer. National guides put most residential lawns at $8 to $14 per square foot installed. A bid well below that is worth asking about, not because cheap is impossible, but because the savings usually come out of base depth, infill load, or edge fastening, which are the three things you cannot inspect after install day.
Usually the opposite. Setup, demolition mobilization, and crew time are much the same for a 200-square-foot dog run as for a bigger lawn, so the rate per foot runs higher on small jobs while the total stays lower. Compare the totals.
Most quotes on this page are for the job we do most, full lawn replacement.
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