This featured install from STI Canada is now 3 years old and according to Carl Macdonald owner of CityFit Professional Training Inc. “The turf is wearing very well, it works perfectly!” The client’s name is Carl McDonald, and according to our installer Scott Smockum of STI Canada, “I know he is happy with the turf…
STI Featured Application: Hawaii, Rory D. Otto
This weeks Featured Application comes to us from Rory D. Otto of NyLawn located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Both of the playgrounds featured are with the Hawaii Dept. of Education Public Schools. The multi-colored playground is Ala Wai Elementary utilizing the SoftLawn EZ Play®, in colors Green and Blue with a combination of Poured in Place…
Featured Application: Central Coast Playgrounds
This week’s featured application comes to us from Steve Strachan of Central Coast Playgrounds. The project was for Peoples Self Help, a Non Profit affordable housing company and this site was located in Casa De Las Flores in Carpinteria, Calif. According to Steve, “We have been doing their playground/site furnishings for almost 15 years now. Two…
STI Featured Application: NP55 of STI Canada
This week’s STI Featured Application comes to us from Scott Smockum of Synthetic Turf International of West Kelowna, BC. The featured product was a 15’x25’ of NP55 in Olive with 600sq.ft of EZPlay® surrounding it. For golfers this a perfect turf for actually replicating real grass and a great practice combo. Again the product was…
STI Featured Application: Peter Albanes of Synthetic Grass – Greens of Greater Maryland Area
This weeks STI Featured Application comes to us from Peter Albanes of Synthetic Grass – Greens of Greater Maryland Area. Albanes installed STI SoftLawn® Pro Cut for American and World Champion Para-athletes Brad Snyder and Lizzie (Elizabeth) Smith. Our SoftLawn® Pro Cut was originally designed specifically for pet facilities and nylon putting green fringes/collars, the short dense construction offers…
Pesticides and How They Affect You
Have you ever wondered how much those expensive chemicals and pesticides are helping or hindering you and your family? Year after year you trek to the store and purchase chemicals and pesticides that are supposed to help your lawn grow, kill weeds and eradicate the insects that invade your lawn and home. However are they…
STI Featured Application: STI Canada
PL906 olive and NP45 turf green. Putting green was 15’x30’ – 450sq.ft Surrounds were about 1000sq.ft The client had recently purchased this home that had been owned by an elderly couple that loved to spend time gardening and tinkering. The yard looked like it had minor but constant additions to it for about 20…
STI Helps Keep the Course in Shape for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay
STI Offers a Few of the Secrets to How the Course Was Kept in Shape for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay When the 115th U.S. Open at Chambers Bay kicks off Thursday, competitors in University Place, Washington will be playing on some unique fairways and greens. The course is made entirely of Fescue grass, which…
Masters for 2015: How to Replicate the Speed of the Greens at Augusta National Recap
Getting an accurate speed for the greens at Augusta National is next to impossible, but how hard is it to replicate? It’s been rated as the number one course in the country, and its fairways, greens, bunkers and water hazards have been seen by more eyes than any other course in the world. Yet, the…
STI University & 2015 Dealer Conference
Over the past 6 months we here at STI have been working long hours in preparation for the STI Dealers Conference and the first STI University (STIU) class. We’ve all heard of McDonald’s famous Hamburger University. Think a similar concept, minus the food accoutrements. The course is a day and half, where STI provides dealers…