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Synthetic turf replacing lawns?
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Not just for athletic fields
- Duration 2:30
- Date Jun 7, 2012
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-- your sports like what about your backyard -- spent nearly thirty billion dollars.
On lawns and -- in the past year what if I could tell you that you might that never have to mow your lawn -- -- -- again but yet it's always green.
Even in the winter Jennifer all this.
-- act global sports and -- Sternberg a perfect turf we're here to tell us how we're actually on your material.
Welcome David and -- yeah get a -- and -- CNN what are you holding your hand.
Out of all the landscaping turn this is a great option for your back yards -- Hussein.
Let me start putting himself safe to buy down the water so get this state -- but first a waiver so a trip to the backyard Brady Bunch and it looked way too green -- -- Very real -- not synthetic surface come along way in in the last five years the industry has developed very realistic looking -- that even feels soft it's really.
Become very well except what is this something I get it you know I would get in the stadium.
Not completely different the stuff in the stadium does not have this that's -- it has robber and you've seen that from Robert come up.
This has -- that's where that holds the blades up it looks like the dead grass at the bottom of your life bright so we were the winning -- this seems they had a great idea I know some people that happened but how pervasive is it at this point.
And it's easy to install yourself so -- some people do themselves or -- -- -- sellers like David solid it's time it's easy maintained you don't have limited maintenance.
You can but and this.
Even he -- he I don't know how you can.
If you do it yourself don't you certain rock and soil and -- Just have to be -- perfectly happy to let yourself we tell people if they're doing a small job maybe 20300 square feet they can do it over the weekend and they can excavate their -- didn't really over the weekend exactly isn't like cooperatives got to be flat.
You don't need a pro about how the knot no no it's much easier than that just -- -- cutter and putting down some crushed rock and on the turf on top of that anything over 3400 square -- people actually get a perpetually not registered record -- over in Newark, New Jersey other places in inner cities would make him put turf down in a parking keep -- going twenty hours a day the kids come out city getting into trouble.
They'll play and -- played in the Clark played all types of games.
Soccer football and -- And everything that.
Sexism a lot of candidates right now -- -- municipalities.
To look at this as an option and for offering rebates or incentives to install this -- thank you so much for coming -- drink it.
Thanks so much everybody just you for -- concerts they.
Great atmosphere -- back to you guys inside all right -- great idea but you don't ever have to -- one more time with your family all right sounds good and that's either good.