2015年8月26日星期三
As you may know, harvesting rainwater has been a common, practice and essential for everyday life for centuries. Even today, cisterns and other rain harvesting systems are quite common in the Europe, Australia, India, Bahamas, and countless third world countries. In fact, there are still many people around the world who still depend primarily on rainwater as their daily living water.
In addition to offering a practical solution when water supplies become limited or access becomes interrupted, rain water collection systems not only contain storm water runoff, but these systems can store water for emergency or alternative use for irrigation, flushing toilets, pressure washing, or washing cars and clothing. Harvesting rainwater can even be purified and used for drinking water. Now there are few limits to the plethora of ways a stored rainwater reserve can be used to backup your regular water supply with a variety of filtration and processing systems to choose from.
The near neutral PH of filtered and processed rainwater makes it safe for a variety of domestic and commercial applications. Rainwater is soft water, so it is healthy for appliances. Rainwater is free and so can reduce overhead for commercial enterprises, not to mention that using rainwater recycles our natural resources.
What is a Rainwater Harvesting System?
How big the system needs to be is depended on the size of the use. The rainwater collection system can be as simple as one or more rainwater cisterns, or rain water barrels connected to the downspouts of your home gutters. Or if you like, you can construct a more elaborate system like rainwater harvesting module piece by piece.
A complete rainwater collection system could include either above ground or underground storage tanks. And to tell the truth, above ground tanks more easier to install than underground harvesting tank, but they can definitely be more expensive and less attractive. While underground tanks might require some digging, but they are less prone to evaporation since they are underground and not in direct sunlight. Preventing evaporation may be extremely important- especially in drier climates-depending on how much you rely on your rainwater supply.
Install your own Rainwater Harvesting System
You may be both excited and overwhelmed at the thought of collecting rainwater and all the benefits which come along with doing so. Once you are ready to begin building your rainwater collection system, you will be ready to begin a worthwhile, rewarding endeavor.
2015年8月20日星期四
Why Artificial Grass Has More Benefits Than Natural Grass?
As we all know natural grass requires lot of maintenance like weeding, mowing, trimming and it may cause injury to children, pets and animals. These products migrate into the soil, groundwater and unite in lakes, or oceans. People are more and more like to use synthetic turf because natural grass requires lot of maintenance. Most of the builders, landscapers, and sports fields are using artificial grass to instead of natural grass.
Maintenance
To maintain natural grass during dry climate is very difficult. In order to keep the natural grass green, you need to spend lot of time on watering the grass, pesticides, fertilizers, chemicals and mowing . While synthetic turf grass maintenance includes raking, deep-tinning, vacuuming, leaf-blowing, hand picking, wetting, washing, sanitizing and treating for weeds and pests. It requires less maintenance when compared to natural grass. Besides that, artificial turf grass has special UV coating which can protect the lawn against ultraviolet rays.
Environment
It is not easy to maintain natural grass and it is even a very tedious work. Natural grass requires lot of maintenance. Water, fertilizers and pesticides are used in natural grass. But in artificial grass you can save lot of water, and fertilizers, even pesticides are not used. Natural grass can cause more damage to children, and pets when compared to artificial grass turf. Synthetic turf grass takes out Carbon dioxide out of the air like natural.
Safety
Natural grass contains more microorganisms, pesticides, and herbicides which can harm pets and kids. What’s more, natural grass contain hard materials so it may cause injure to pets, children and even players. Natural sports field are not perfectly flat. These develop dips, mounds, bumps, holes as these are used regularly. Synthetic lawn grass is built on top of flat, level ground. Fake grass is made from softer materials PP or PE, so players face less ankle strains, knee and head injuries.
Appearance
Synthetic turf grass comes in different pile height, lengths, colors. It can look like Bermuda, bluegrass, centipede. Artificial grass can look like any type of natural grass. Artificial grass can have a natural grass finish. Artificial grass is always green, but in case of natural if it is maintained properly then only it will look green.
Cost
The cost of artificial grass installation may be high in the beginning when compared to natural grass. But A year after installing, the maintenance fees and running costs of natural grass will cost more than synthetic turf grass. Natural grass have a long process like sow the seed, water the grass, fertilizers, lawn, feed, pesticides etc. But artificial grass does not have such a long process.
Watering
Many countries has no adequate rain so they have to face water shortage problem. So it may be difficult to maintain natural grass because it requires lot of water. But artificial grass remains always green and does not require lot of water.
2015年8月13日星期四
Green The World With Artificial Turf Grass
Increasingly, artificial turf grass is being used as an architectural feature in planning urban landscapes greening. It is becoming an unviable preposition for people to rowing and maintaining natural grass lawns. One of the reasons is that natural grass need more regular maintenance and resources for their upkeep. Maintaining natural grass need water resources and soil quality, these are bare essentials.
With sportsman’s rough use damaging the grass, the managing long stretch of green grass growth required for sporting needs is a big challenge. It is difficult to restore these natural sporting venues, at the same time it requires very long time to redo these stretches of grass growth. With increasing sporting events getting organized restoration has to be instant and the grass quality has to be maintained.
Whether it is maintaining football field, golf greens, soccer field or tennis courts, green grass or landscaping your residential architecture, artificial lawn grass is gaining ground as a good substitute product to growing natural grass. Recently artificial grass has been allowed to make for the architectural feature of a flower show according to the survey by the march horticulture week\, which proves an acceptance of naturalists for adoption of the artificial turf grass.
Adopting greening synthetic grass has undergone various stages of development to retain various features and benefits compared with natural grass. No matter it is draining of water or running storm water on its surface are no more a deterrent in adopting them. No matter the artificial grass is the use of to green sporting venues like tennis or golf or any other sport ground or add to the architectural beauty of your residential property artificial synthetic grass is a well meaning choice.
Although detractors calling for its removal and environmentalists crying foul, millions of square feet of residential lawns use synthetic grass. Artificial grass turfs applying saves a lot of time and money, at the same time it adds up to life time savings. Adoption of synthetic grass offers a convenient choice, people do not need to seeding, fertilizing and trimming for homeowners and frequent cycle of doing that and at higher costs. The little maintenance and the elegant look it adds to the look of the homes is a proposition that makes anyone opt for the artificial version of green grass to maintain greenery.
Artificial grass turfs make greening become so easy.Whether it landscaping, or bring back greenery surrounding in garden, school, or open space at your workplace to getting that low-cost maintenance for long stretches of you soccer, football field, hockey, cricket fields, golf greens.
2015年8月3日星期一
Why Not Use Grass Pavers to Keep the Natural Flow of Your Landscaping Lawn?
When designing our landscaping, one of the choices we must make is how to create our walkway. One of the most popular choices is to use grass grid pavers. When selecting grass pavers, you have to decide on what materials to use. Many people are choosing HDPE material grass pavers which allow for a pleasing, flowing look allowing your lawn to flow through.
One of the great features about greening system grass pavers is that they can be used in many more application. You are not limited to just creating a walkway. As a matter of fact, they can be widely used in walkways, driveways, parking lots, flooring, emergency fire paths, football and soccer field, and even as golf paths.
Grass pavers have many advantages for those people who decide to use them in their landscape design. For one reason is that they are very easy to install. There do not require any tools for installation because they use an interlocking grid system. And they also are pretty simple to cut to the desired size as your need. So when you need to trim one down to fit it won't be a difficult process.
These paving grid are very environmentally-friendly because the grid system is made from100% recycled plastic. And what’s more, turf pavers will allow for rainwater to penetrate and drain into the soil. With this feature, the system allows for the water to be recycled and used to benefit the surrounding area, not down some storm drain and into a waterway.
Grass Protection Plastic Paving Grid Pavers are also needs only little maintenance. Unlike some cheap projects that end up costing a fortune in upkeep, grass pavers are not difficult to maintain, at the same time, the maintenance cost is not expensive. You just need to water and mow your lawn landscaping grass, and that is all you will have to do for maintenance on your pavers grid.
The best part is that the initial cost of reinforced gravel paving grids is relatively low, especially when compared with stone and other pavers. You can expect to pay about 8.6 dollars a square meter. And since you won't have to concern about maintenance and erosion, this is a long term investment that will pay dividends in aesthetics! So what are you waiting for, just contact us for more information if you are interested in creating a greening landscaping in your garden.
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