State-of-the-art aeration and drainage

Which Sport?

Golf

Drill n Fill and Deep Drill 60/18 aerators can bring dramatic improvements to golf green turf.

These unique aerators can make a major contribution towards the green's ability to withstand the demands of a prolonged playing season and adverse winter weather. Reducing waterlogging and flooding will allow the green to stay in play. This not only minimises temporary pin placements, it also produces greens of a higher standard earlier in the spring. Similarly, excess water from torrential downpours will disappear faster, resulting in fewer closures and cancellations. Greens will be finer and firmer.
The aerators operate throughout the ranges of:
11-16cm hole to hole spacings
2-45cm duct depths
1-3cm diameter drills
The Ecosol System does not create uneven surfaces, rippling or areas of subsidence detrimental to play. The result is a perfect surface capable of accommodating play within hours of the work's completion.

Cricket

The Deep Drill 60/18 Aerator can bring dramatic improvements to cricket square turf, eliminating sparse grass growth, uneven bounce, divoting and compaction.

This unique aerator can improve the square's ability to withstand the demands of an intense playing season and difficult summer weather. Modern square construction using stronger loam often leads to difficulty in conventional aeration without surface damage. Insufficient root penetration is a major problem.

The Deep Drill will encourage deeper rooting, resulting in healthy grass growth and a stronger soil structure. The machine gently removes soil from the holes, relieving compaction and creating a channel that penetrates through any layering or breaks. It aerates in conditions where machines such as the punch spiker cannot operate. .

The grass' natural geotropic response leads to roots developing and bridging the breaks and loam layers, encouraging mobile soil platelets to knit together. This action creates a denser soil profile that produces greater ball bounce and quickening of pace. "Low and slow" wickets can be transformed and grass health reinvigorated.

Bowls

The Drill n Fill Aerator can bring dramatic improvements to bowling green turf.

These unique aerators can improve the green’s ability to withstand appalling winter weather.  Reducing the incidence of waterlogging and flooding  on the green will lead to earlier, stronger and more vigorous growth in the Spring. This then produces greens of a higher standard, even earlier.  Similarly, torrential mid-season downpours will disappear faster, resulting in fewer closures and cancellations.

• Drill, extract, aerate and backfill all in one action!
• Break through clay bands, thatch, black layer and other zones that cause waterlogging.
• Accelerate water movement away from the green’s surface down vertical drainage channels into the gravel carpet or clinker layer beneath.
• Hold open the vertical ducts by using the Drill n Fill Aerator’s unique ability to backfill them with a free-draining sand or sand/amendment blend…so the improvement lasts for years.
• Increase plant health and vigour by improving nutrient infiltration, percolation and gas exchange up to 325mm deep.
• Improve water penetration, reducing the green's susceptibility to dry patch.

Rugby

Ecosol Turfcare has a growing portfolio of rugby club clients and is being increasingly recognised for its work improving the quality of their pitches. Whatever your requirement or problem, we have a system or machine to sort it out and a track record to trust.

Compaction and overuse are the primary issues that clubs have to deal with, and specific hard wear areas such as the 5 to15 metre-from-touch channels present particular problems. Waterlogging and bare/weed infestations are the bane of any club. .

Our contracting service features a raft of specialist equipment. We operate the Soil Reliever aerator and decompactor on behalf of the RFU, which is a subsidised service to any club. Conducting anything from aeration to drainage projects; de-stoning to scarification; fertilising to seeding; fraise mowing to sand banding - Ecosol Turfacre can provide it. We also operate the revolutionary Koro Field Top Maker that can strip the top off a pitch and remove all vegetation to any depth. We can introduce a secondary drainage system using a sand slitter, to turf already containing a primary system of pipes and gravel. We can even perform laser grading to create the perfectly levelled pitch! .

Ecosol Turfcare have the ability to dramatically improve your facility. And we are happy to advise and quote for anything - from a specific problem to a complete end-of season renovation or in-season maintenance to complete rebuilding.

Satisfied customers include Bath Rugby, Swansea Neath Ospreys, Yatton, Salisbury, Chippenham, and many other local clubs in Wiltshire.

Football

Ecosol Turfcare was founded around the needs of clubs ranging from Premier League to semi-professional league clubs who all wanted better playing surfaces. We understand the requirements that a club has - grassed surfaces, longevity and playability over a long and busy season. Our long list of football club clients has enjoyed dramatically improved pitch quality following our operations and programmes, leading to league promotions, long cup runs and more media coverage. Whatever the requirement or problem, we have a system and the equipment to sort it out and a track record and reputation to trust.

Compaction and overuse are the primary issues that clubs have to deal with, and specific hard wear areas such as the goalmouths and centre circle present particular problems. Waterlogging and bare areas/weed infestations are the bane of any club.

Our contracting service features a raft of specialist equipment. We operate the verti-drain and Shockwave aerator/decompactor machines. Ecosol Turfcare can provide the answers - aeration programmes to drainage projects; de-stoning to scarification; fertilising to seeding; fraise mowing to sand banding. We also operate the revolutionary Koro Field Top Maker that can strip the top off a pitch and remove all vegetation to any depth, enabling new grasses to replace the weak easily kickedout varieties. The Blec Sandmaster can introduce a secondary drainage system, using a network of sand slits, to turf already containing a primary system of pipes and gravel. Even laser grading to create the perfectly levelled pitch! Extreme mid-season problems can be overcome using the Drill n Fill aerator, so no matter when there is an ailment, we have the medicine.

Ecosol Turfcare are happy to advise and quote for anything - from a specific problem to a complete end-of season renovation or in-season maintenance to complete rebuilding.

Satisfied customers include Manchester City FC, Sunderland AFC, Swindon Town FC, Southampton FC, Swansea City FC, Woking AFC, as well as many local clubs in Southern England and South Wales.

Racecourses/Polo

The clatter of metal-shod feet at full gallop pose their own maintenance challenge for racecourse and polo ground staff. This task is made near impossible if there is serious compaction, surface flooding and poor root growth.

Ecosol Turfcare are able to help with the revolutionary Drill n Fill aerator. This can penetrate problem areas to relieve compaction, insert permanent drainage ducts and backfill with soil amendment which improves the rootzone and encourages grass growth.

Where over-hard surfaces are the issue, we use the Shockwave decompactor to relieve pressure. In addition, soil relieving can break through hard pans, improve grass growth and introduce more oxygen into the soil. This is vital for root survival.

Satisfied customers include Brighton and Fontwell racecourses and Beaufort Polo Club.