Turf cleaning in North Myrtle Beach

A short-term rental is under 90 days and needs a city business license; a 2021 ordinance requires listing on-site parking at application. Turf is the surface guests judge first from the back door.

We run pre-season cleans in late May, turnover Essential Cleans by square foot, and post-storm checks — a portfolio on one schedule.

Retirees around Barefoot Resort and Tidewater put greens in the backyard, under pines and live oaks. West of the Waterway they also get Bull Creek water only, higher in sodium than the beach-side blend.

A green blown off weekly and top-dressed once a year holds its speed; one under straw all winter is slow and bumpy. Putting green restoration.

Cherry Grove and Ocean Drive turf gets salt spray on every onshore wind; a storm leaves a white film that bonds with the infill if left through a dry fall. A fresh-water flush within a few weeks and it's gone.

No dogs on the beach 10 a.m.–4 p.m., May 15–Labor Day, so the backyard turf gets the rest. Storm cleanup and pet odor removal.

The city's illicit-discharge ordinance bans anything but stormwater or approved water into the storm system, with exemptions for irrigation, car washing and pool water — not turf rinse with pet residue and treatment products.

So we bag solids, let treatments dwell instead of flushing to the curb, and keep rinse to what the lot absorbs. It's also why we skip bleach two blocks from the ocean.