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MAINTENANCE MANUAL
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PROTECTING YOUR SURFACE
It is good business to protect the investment in your play-
ing surface. To do this most effectively,
KEEP IT CLEAN
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The following maintenance precautions are advised:
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Control access to field
• Keep your surface free of litter, mud and debris.
Provide ample garbage receptacles.
• Post signs prohibiting smoking and carrying food or
drink onto the field.
• Properly monitor the use of motorized vehicles on
your surface.
• Repair minor damage promptly.
• Follow suggested maintenance and cleaning
procedures.
• Budget approximately one hour of inspection and
maintenance for every 10 hours of playing time.
General Cleaning and Stain Removal
For outdoor surfaces, rain is your best cleanser. Rain-
fall gently cleans the fibers of dust, pollen and airborne
pollutants in a way that is difficult to duplicate. In areas
where rainfall is scarce – or during prolonged periods of
drought – an occasional watering is beneficial to cleanse
the synthetic surface. Listed below are the suggested
precautionary maintenance practices:
• Keep trash and litter containers on site.
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Route fields access traffic in such a way to minimize
mud/dirt tracking on the field.
• Set up drinks for athletes during practice breaks off
the synthetic surface if possible.
• Enforce a smoke free environment and discourage
the use of chewing tobacco, gum and sunflower
seeds.
Dailycare
Daily Care is truly on going care, it does not necessarily
mean care each and every day. The amount and frequen-
cy of daily care is dependent on not only on the surface
selected, but also by the volume of use and the type of
use. Act Global recommends that every Act Global sports
surfacing system be periodically vacuumed to remove
litter and dust etc…
Litter Removal
For Non-Infilled Systems, Light trash (paper, peanut
shells, sunflower seeds, athletic tape etc.) and airborne
dust can be removed easily with a lawn sweeper, mainte-
nance sweeper or a motorized vacuum.
For Infilled Systems
Light trash (paper, peanut shells, sunflower seeds, athlet
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ic tape, etc) can be removed most easily by gently using
a shop vacuum and angling the hose so not to vacuum up
the infilled material.
