Over the last few years synthetic bowling greens have grown in popularity allowing club members to play competitive bowls most of the year round, excluding days when the green is covered with frost or deep snow. Performance of these surfaces is improving with various shock pads giving control of the speed of play. These types of synthetic grass surfaces have a distinct advantage over natural grass surfaces which require a high standard of maintenance to retain the playing characteristics, where a synthetic grass surface is not so demanding, at least in the first few years.

However with time all of these surfaces are beginning to look tired and impossible to play on with moss and algae growing all over the surface making even walking on them a hazardous operation. Add this to the absorption of biological contamination then you quickly have a slippery and unsightly surface developing which is no good to the club and extremely expensive to replace.

The Hydrofast System (see http://www.sweepfast.com/index.php?webpage=synthbowlsrefurb.html) from Sweepfast can easily and economically remedy this problem in just 2 days with the removal from the surface of the contamination, moss and algae, leaving behind a spanking clean bowling green that will be a pleasure to play on once again and, with some maintenance, stay this way for many years to come.