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Its Indoor Facility Install Season: 5 Things Owners can do Before the Crew Arrives

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Published Oct 27, 2025

  1. Clear & Clean the Area
  2. Ensure Accessibility
  3. Temperature Control
  4. Lighting
  5. Your Time

We all want turf and netting installations to go smoothly.   Owners have Grand Opening dates schedules and are anxious.   Installation crews have other jobs after this one.  Hotel rooms have been booked. Weather issues loom large this time of year and everybody wants to get home safely.  We all have things to do. These pressures are universal to any Owner or Turf & Netting Crew.

The ATXTurf team compiled a short list of things facility owners can do on their end to encourage timely installations and superior craftsmanship.

  1. Clear & Clean the Area

This may seem obvious, but let’s get more specific.  Many types of spaces are converted to Indoor Sports Facilities.   Warehouses, automotive garages, grocery stores, shopping malls…you name it.  Whether it was a previous tenant, or it’s your stuff,  it’s gotta go BEFORE installation crews arrive.  This goes for furniture, cars, garbage, old carpet, tools and pipes sticking out of the ground.  

If a crew from ANY turf company shows up and the space looks like this,  there’s a decent chance they get back in the truck and move to the next job until it’s been cleared.

This also means cleaning the floor.   Dirt, dust, grease spots and debris do not mix well with flooring adhesives and this can affect your seams.  And you don’t want “stuff” under your turf. 

  1. Good Accessibility

Getting Turf Rolls from a truck, or from outside to their inside location is sometimes half the battle. Especially in the winter. And especially if stairs are involved.  

Make sure you, or whoever is there, has keys to the gate and doorways, hallways and parking lots are clear enough to get a truck and trailer as close to the space as possible.   Turf rolls will be 15’ long and CAN be up to 3 – 4 ft in diameter for larger rolls.

Got a roll-up warehouse door?   Make sure it opens, AND opens all the way to the top so bobcats / forklifts can get through.  

If there is a risk of ice, salt the parking lots, stairs and sidewalks.  

  1. Temperature Control

We get it.  Many new construction jobs are behind schedule and so may be the electrician.  But, the power really needs to be on.    If its cold outside, it will be cold inside and that creates 3 problems:

  1. A comfortable crew is a happier crew and that typically means better work.
  2. Turf glues need to be within a specific temperature range to even begin to cure.   
  3. Turf needs to be able to rest after it is unrolled.   We have other articles around this, but it’s harder for turf to “rest and relax” in colder temperatures.  Installing turf in raw cold temperatures can result in wrinkling over time if the turf relaxes “after” installation.

Consider using some space heaters.  These industrial Butane heaters are ideal for warehouses.

  1. Light

Similar to #3,  the power needs to be on.  We have to have light.  We gotta be able to see and it gets dark early and fast this time of year, especially after daylight savings.

Have poor lighting? Or, Don’t have lights yet?  You can get flood lights pretty cheap at Home Depot or Amazon. Delivered before the job starts.

Turfing a Bubble in the Dark

Turfing a Bubble in the Dark

Cutting the factory edges off long rolls of turf is meticulous work. If we can’t see, your seams will show it.

  1. Your Time

We won’t need you on the job site the entire time.   Some crews may even prefer you not be there the whole time.   But, you will need to be there at the end.   

Block out enough of your time for a “final walkthrough” on what you think will be the last day.   The last thing crews want is to book another unexpected hotel room for Sunday night instead of driving home because the owner vanished or was unavailable on the last day.  

Understand that the owner or representative really needs to be there so everyone can agree on those inevitable “last remaining punch list items” and get them knocked out.

Conclusion

Many of our first time facility owners come from unrelated backgrounds in business, academics or athletics and are novices in “facility management.”  

We hope that this list helps as a guide in prepping your space, so that ATXTurf installers can focus on what they are best at, superior artificial turf and netting installation.