You should setup mini floodlights and a little stand on the side haha this is amazing man! Keep it up!, can get some 3 vs 3 or even U10's games on that :)
Haha, night matches, invite them along to a free match ticket so they don't hate it anymore ;) I'd love to do this once I move into a house with a garden, sadly can't do this in an apartment haha, play indoors i think mine hate me for kicking my ball around.
Hey dude! I have to say this is a fantastic job! It doesn't matter if people say "oh should have been bigger" or something like that. You spend $11.7k on this and it is a great job! Good luck to the little guys there, well done.
I've added that to the description. The lawn pads are a 1" thick, 4'x8' SofPlay product purchased from XGrass. $19.20 each. These are not necessary if you buy a quality crushed rock and do a good job of compressing it.
My turf is a high quality product that still looks good after many years of use and extreme temperature changes living in Kansas. It's flattened a bit from normal use, but I also could have added more infill. The turf is also porous, so water drains through it. However, if there is a heavy rain, it's important that you have a small slope so excess water drains away from your house. The only maintenance required for me is to blow off the leaves every so often.
I knew of someone that had this same set up and went on to become a professional player I guessed the money his parents forked out to build him this paid off
Very cool project. Nicely done. I'd like to do this myself but my concern is that with no drainage the turf must become an absolute swamp after a rain storm. I would assume that those pads stay wet for quite some time
So you mentioned you wish you would have used a different gravel. Can you explain what you used and what you wished you would have used? Also I was interested in how the wood barrier is working and if it is rotting.
I don't have an answer regarding the gravel. I chose the cheaper quote and the company delivered something that retained some water. Bad luck. The wood barrier wall has not started rotting. It does a nice job of keeping the ball in play.
Video Guy i have compacted the gravel but there is still some that won’t compact and scared it will cause the grass to shift around and possibly get worse overtime so i was curious if the pads would help with shifting and feeling some bumpy-ness from the un compacted rocks
Mr. A the turf is very heavy and is nailed around the perimeter. My turf is not perfectly flat because the gravel was low quality and retained moisture. The lawn pad might have helped, but the pitch is a little bumpy in some areas. It is still a great place to play and better than a grass yard with dirt, mud, rocks, sticks, etc.
Great great job ! but i gotta say, from experience those very short wooden walls are not a good idea, either go back a meter or so and make a higher one or a net works better and cheaper and see through, or no wall at all, coz if anyone trip and fall down on those it would hurt really bad no matter where he hits the walls !
Thank you for the feedback. Nobody has been injured on the wood wall, but I was concerned about it and thought about covering them with something. The good thing about the wall is that it help keep the ball in play and block out some of the leaves from blowing on the pitch.
Nice! How has the field held up during the four years? is there any regular maintance needed for it? I'm debating between grass and turf for my home field...
i'm planning to do the same in a few weeks (in indiana) but still couldn't decide whether artificial turf(due to cost) or just grass. you excavated to level the ground? do we need to contact the city for permissions?
When you build the turf field like that, is the surface permeable? The reason I ask is that my county only gives us a certain amount of non-permeable space to build on. Otherwise brilliant build!
There are holes in the turf for water drainage. It is a permeable surface. However, if there is a very heavy rain, there will be some run-off. So, you have to consider where the water will go. Make sure there is a small slope away from your house.
Where can i purchase this turf i am trying to make. 100x60 soccer field for my son I would really appreciate the info i tried looking up tencate but I cannot find the soccer turf
The plastic film was provided by the turf manufacturer (Tencate). It was maybe 12 inches wide and a thin clear plastic. You can hear it "crackle" when walking on the seam which I find a little annoying. The adhesive was an all-purpose adhesive... probably Liquid Nails... and has done a great job.
