Turf Care & Advice
STRI works with local authorities, schools and other educational establishments across the UK & Ireland, providing practical advice on how to effectively manage your care and maintenance programmes for sports turf, tailored specifically to meet your quality targets and budgets.
Our specialist turf advisory team provides advice and information on the latest cost-efficient solutions, including products, techniques and equipment that can be used to manage your sports surfaces to achieve safe and good quality performance throughout the year.
We understand the constraints that may be in place in terms of your budget and resources available and offer bespoke and flexible solutions that meet your objectives, budgets and plans that are realistic, providing real results and sustainable solutions.
Annual Advisory Assessment
Our annual advisory service is offered at a discounted price to local authority and educational clients and provides you with a regular assessment on the quality and performance of your sports surfaces, along with a comprehensive report and recommendations plan, detailing the annual maintenance programmes that should be adopted with relevant timings and idea of costs, that could help in planning your annual budget.
As an annual client you automatically qualify to join our STRI Subscription service, which provides other benefits, as well as discounted prices and these include:
- STRI Bulletin – delivered quarterly, incorporating the latest news and articles on turf development and maintenance
- STRI Help Line – telephone support and advice from the team all year round
- Discounted laboratory services – including organic matter and soils physics and chemistry testing
- Discounted training – to help improve your knowledge on care and maintenance of different sports turf
- Access to STRI’s article and advice library
Solutions for Problem Pitches/Surfaces
Our STRI advisors provide support for any of your sports surface problems; these may be related to the performance or aesthetics of the sports turf and water management issues. We will help to identify the problem and provide the most cost-effective solutions to help improve playing qualities and performance.
Some of the most frequent problems we have resolved include:
- Playing surface is too hard or too soft
- Poor grass cover and aesthetics on pitches
- Drainage and water management issues
- Pests, weeds and diseases – we provide an ID testing service and recommendations on how to best manage these.
Contact us on +44 (0)1274 565131 or info@stri.co.uk to discuss how we can help you in the management and maintenance planning for your sports surfaces.
