Artificial Grass Cleaning in Newton Abbot

The Moore & Franks approach in Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot's newer estates around Mile End, Decoy and Kingsteignton have taken to artificial grass for the same reason as everywhere — small gardens, busy families, no mowing. But the town's low, damp position in the Teign valley works against it: shaded plots under the heavy tree cover around Decoy and Bradley grow moss into the pile, and leaf fall blocks the drainage backing so the lawn sits wet and starts to smell. We clear the growth and ground-in debris, power-brush the pile back to full, deal with lifted edges and perimeter weeds, and neutralise pet odour at source rather than masking it. Free quote, fully insured, local team.

On the sloping plots climbing away from the valley floor — the gardens stepped up through Highweek and Wolborough — an artificial lawn drains and wears unevenly. Water and loose infill drift toward the bottom edge, so the low corner packs down, stays wet and grows moss while the top of the lawn dries out and thins. Getting a slope like that right means brushing the pile and infill back up the gradient, not just skimming the surface, so it stands and drains evenly again.

In the deepest shade — gardens backing onto the woods on the Milber side of town — you get more than a green film: proper cushions of moss establish on the pile itself, the way they would on a north-facing roof. That has to be broken up and lifted out of the fibres before any treatment can work, otherwise you are just wetting the top of it. We clear it right down to the backing so the surface is genuinely clean, then leave it treated to slow the regrowth.

A lawn in the bottom of the Teign valley simply gets less drying time than one on open ground, so the heavily shaded plots here often do best on a twice-yearly clean rather than an annual one. A good spring visit knocks back the winter's growth, and a lighter autumn tidy clears the leaf load before it beds in. Keeping the surface swept between times makes a real difference to how long the drainage stays free-running.

Our Newton Abbot customers are typically within 30 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ12 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Wolborough, Highweek, Milber, Kingsteignton, Decoy Country Park, Bradley Manor).