ADA Compliant Playground Turf Installation Built to the Fall Height
A play surface soft enough to take a fall and firm enough to take a wheelchair, which is a harder pairing than it sounds. We build to the fall height of your specific equipment, over a rated shock pad, and we hand you the numbers we built to.
🛝 Built to Your Equipment's Fall Height
🛡 Rated Shock Pad Under Every Play Area
♿ Firm and Stable for Wheelchairs and Walkers
📋 Written Specification at Handover
Accessible Playground Surfacing with Synthetic Turf
Every child should be able to reach the swings, slides, and play structures, including kids who use wheelchairs, walkers, or other mobility aids. Loose materials like mulch and sand shift underfoot and make it hard for wheels to move. Accessible playground surfacing needs to be firm, stable, and smooth enough for everyone to get around safely. A synthetic turf playground meets that need with a surface that stays even and does not scatter. Accessibility still depends on the full system, the site, and how the play area is laid out. Turf Restoration and Design plans each playground turf installation with access routes in mind and explains the options honestly before work begins.
Turf Restoration and Design builds play areas as a specified system rather than a turf job with a pad thrown underneath. We measure the fall height of every piece of equipment before we quote, select the pad thickness to match rather than defaulting to one size, and we never use crumb rubber infill in a space where children sit, crawl and put their hands in it. At handover you get a written record of what went in, including the pad rating and the fall height the system was built for, so you are not taking anyone's word for it.
Our Services
Play area turf is one of five residential systems we build, and it is the only one with published safety standards attached to it. Each system is specified separately.
Backyard Putting Green Installation
One of the few features that works for adults and children in the same small footprint, since kids will putt on it long before they take up the game properly.
Pet Turf Installation
In a household with both children and a dog, the sensible move is to separate the two areas rather than let them share one surface. We build the dog zone with its own drainage
Pool Turf Installation
Where a play area and a pool sit in the same yard, the surfaces should carry the same logic. Poolside turf gives wet bare feet better traction than coping or sealed concrete drains splash-out straight.
ADA-Compliant Playground Turf Installation
A tested system built to the fall height of your equipment, firm enough to meet accessibility requirements and documented in writing at handover.
Lawn Turf Installation
The rest of the yard takes a beating from children too, particularly the running routes between the play area and the back door. A full lawn conversion holds those lines without wearing
Synthetic Playground Turf with Shock Pads for Fall Zones
Falls are a normal part of play, so the surface under equipment matters a great deal. Synthetic playground turf is usually installed over a foam shock pad that helps absorb impact. The thickness of the pad should match the height of the equipment above it, since taller structures need more cushioning. Turf alone does not provide this protection, so the full layered system is what counts.
Turf Restoration and Design is licensed, insured, and a member of the National Synthetic Turf Council. We review your equipment heights and fall zones, then recommend a pad and turf combination that fits the playground layout.
Benefits of Our Service
Artificial Turf for Playground Upgrades from Mulch, Rubber & Pea Gravel
Many playgrounds still use wood mulch, rubber mulch, or pea gravel, and all three need constant attention. These materials get kicked out of place, pile up in some spots, and leave thin areas under swings and slides. They can also hide trash, sharp objects, and animal waste. Switching to artificial turf for playground areas removes the need for regular top-ups and raking. The surface stays neat, and it is easier to spot and clear debris. Turf Restoration and Design removes the old material, prepares a proper base with drainage, and installs the new turf using our own team and our own equipment.
Turf can also go underneath a raised trampoline, which removes the dark, damp space that usually collects debris and stops anyone having to crawl under there with a strimmer. For in-ground trampolines we handle the retaining and drainage around the pit as part of the same build.
Commercial Turf Installation
Retail spaces
Restaurants & Hotels
Office buildings
Apartment & Condos
Malls & Commercial outlets
Athletic Facilities
Entertainment Facilities
Places of Worship
Schools
Malls & Retail Plazas
Residential Turf Installation
Backyard Lawns
Backyard Putting Greens
Pet Friendly Turf
Poolside Turf
Playground Turf
Commercial Playground Artificial Turf Installation for Parks & Daycares
Public parks, daycares, apartment communities, and neighborhood associations all need play areas that handle daily use from many children. Commercial artificial turf installation gives these spaces a clean surface that dries quickly after rain and stays open more often. Bright colors and patterns can also mark play zones, pathways, and gathering spots.
Our owner spent more than twenty years working with turf before founding Turf Restoration and Design in 2020, and that experience helps us handle larger turf for playgrounds projects with care. We also offer school turf installation for recess areas and artificial turf for churches with children's ministry play spaces.
Our Work Process
01
We Measure Every Piece of Equipment
Fall height is measured from the highest designated play surface, not from the top of the frame, and it varies piece by piece. That measurement sets the pad specification for the whole use zone.
02
We Build the Base and Lay the Rated Pad
The base is excavated, graded and compacted to drain, then the shock pad is laid across the full use zone rather than only directly under the equipment, because children rarely land where you expect.
03
We Fit the Turf and Document What Went In
The turf is seamed and anchored flat with no lifted edges anywhere a child runs, then infilled and broomed. You receive a written record of the pad rating and the fall height the system was built for.
Artificial Turf Rolls for Playground Backyard Projects
Many parents look at artificial turf rolls for playground backyard projects and consider installing them on their own. Rolls alone rarely give good results without proper grading, base preparation, drainage, and padding under the play set. Without that groundwork, the turf can ripple, hold water, or offer too little cushioning in fall areas. A professionally installed artificial turf playground stays flat, drains well, and looks neat for years.
Turf Restoration and Design is a family owned company, and our turf is made locally and is 100 percent recyclable. Every backyard play area includes a 15 year material warranty and a 5 year labor warranty, and our residential turf installation service can finish the rest of your yard.
Frequently Asked Questions
Legally, no. The ADA governs public accommodations and government facilities, so a private family backyard is not covered by it. Building to the standard at home is a choice rather than an obligation. It becomes worth making when a child or a regular visitor uses a wheelchair or a walker, when the area sits in an HOA common space, or when you run a licensed daycare from the property. Plenty of families also simply want the accessible option because it costs little extra to specify at the build stage and cannot be added later.
Ask for it in writing, from any installer. The rating belongs to the installed system, meaning the base, pad, turf and infill together, so a turf product with a certificate attached to it tells you nothing on its own. What you want to see is the fall height the system was specified for and the pad rating used to reach it. We measure your equipment, build to that number and hand the specification over at completion. Third-party verification such as IPEMA on the components is a reasonable extra thing to ask about.
Engineered wood fiber can perform well on impact when it is fresh and at full depth, so the honest comparison is not about day one. It is about month eighteen. Loose fill scatters, compacts and thins out precisely under the swings and slides where it is needed, and unless someone rakes and tops it up on a schedule the rating quietly disappears. It also struggles on accessibility. A bonded system holds its depth permanently, which is why the performance you buy is the performance you still have in three years.
No, and this surprises people. A properly specified pad is firm underfoot because it is engineered to absorb a high-energy impact rather than a footstep, which is the same principle as a running track. If a surface feels soft and bouncy when you walk on it, that usually points to an over-thick pad or a poorly compacted base rather than good protection. It should feel solid to walk across and only do its job in a fall.
It should, and the standard exists precisely because materials change behaviour with temperature. ASTM F1292 requires testing at 25 degrees, at ambient temperature and at elevated temperature, so a compliant system has to perform across that range rather than only on a mild day. Some rubber products stiffen in the cold and soften in high heat, which is one of the reasons we specify the pad rather than using whatever comes bundled with a turf order.
Is Your Play Area Actually Rated for the Equipment On It?
Contact Us
Most home play areas have never been measured, which means nobody knows what the surface would do in a fall. We will measure the fall height of what you already own and tell you plainly what your current surface is and is not doing.
678-227-9446
info@turfrestorationanddesign.com
Area We Serve
Play areas are the jobs we are most careful about scheduling, because the work has to be sequenced around the equipment and the family using it. Keeping our radius tight means our own crew handles every one of them and we can be back on site quickly if a piece of equipment changes and the use zone needs extending.
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Milton, GA