How do you prepare artificial turf for a hurricane?
Before the storm, secure loose items that could scrape the turf in wind, clear debris, and check drains and low spots are not blocked. After, the order is fixed: heavy debris off first, loose material blown off, a seam-and-edge walk for anything that floated, then a flush of salt and sand through the infill within about two weeks, before it crusts. TIMELESS Turf Restoration runs post-storm visits across the coast.
Before the storm
- Secure or bring in planters, furniture, decorations and anything loose that wind could drag across the turf.
- Clear gutters and downspouts that drain onto or near the turf.
- Check that yard drains and low spots are not already blocked with pollen, leaves or debris, so storm water has somewhere to go.
- If there is a green, clear anything loose nearby; the green itself needs no different prep.
Right after the storm
Once it is safe, the first pass is heavy debris: branches and larger limbs off the turf, lifted rather than dragged so a sharp edge does not tear the fibers. Note any standing water and where it is sitting; that tells you where to check the base and drainage once things dry out.
Brian prices it by square foot before any work starts, and every job ends blown clean.
The full cleanup sequence
- Heavy debris off first: branches, limbs, anything that landed with weight.
- Blow off loose material: leaves, pine straw, light litter.
- Walk every seam and edge for anything that floated or lifted while the ground was saturated.
- Flush salt spray and windblown sand through the infill with a high-volume rinse, not a pressure washer.
The two-week window
Hurricane season on the Grand Strand runs June through November and peaks in September, the same stretch our maintenance calendar flags for storm risk; South Carolina has never had a landfall after October 31. Salt spray dries into a crust that bonds to infill and fibers, and windblown beach sand settles into the fiber base and gets harder to flush out the longer it sits. Flushing within roughly two weeks of the storm is the difference between a rinse and a job that needs a power brush to break the crust loose.
What a post-storm visit checks
Edges that floated and did not settle back flush, seams that opened under standing water and may need a repair, sand or salt pushed into low spots, and infill that has compacted from being saturated or left water pooling on the surface. A yard that was only sprayed with salt is usually an Essential Clean-band job; a yard that actually flooded gets a Premium Restoration with antimicrobial treatment.
When to call us
Call within a couple of weeks of any named storm. A storm-and-seasonal cleanup starts at the $199 minimum visit for salt and sand flush, moving to a full Premium Restoration at $399 for 501 to 1,000 square feet where the yard flooded or a seam opened.
Free quote, priced by square foot. You approve any add-on before we do it.
