A full-yard synthetic lawn built on a proper base, so it drains, stays flat, and doesn't need a drop of water once it's down.
Residential turf installation replaces your living lawn with a synthetic surface built in layers: a compacted road-base foundation, a crushed-rock drainage layer, then the turf itself, seamed and secured at the edges and infilled to hold the blades upright. Done right, water runs through it, not off it, and it doesn't shift, wrinkle, or trip a puddle in your yard after the first winter.
In Chino Hills, that base layer matters more than most installers admit. A lot of yards here sit on graded hillside pads with retaining walls close by, tracts like Rincon were cut into the hills in the 1990s and 2000s, and turf laid straight over sloped or compacted fill without real drainage prep is the single most common reason a synthetic lawn looks great for a year and then starts holding water or sliding at the edges. We build the base first and treat the turf as the last step, not the whole job.
We walk the yard, measure square footage, check slope and drainage direction, and flag anything that affects the base (retaining walls, existing sprinkler lines, low spots).
Square footage, turf grade, base depth, and a flat price in writing before anything is dug up.
Remove the existing lawn, excavate to depth, compact a road-base foundation, and grade for real drainage, not just a flat-looking yard.
Turf is rolled, seamed, stretched, and secured at every edge, then infilled and brushed to stand the blades up.
We walk the finished yard with you, check the seams and edges together, and confirm drainage before we call it done.
The per-square-foot rate lives on our homepage, $8-14/sq ft installed, Inland Empire pricing. Below is what that actually turns into for a real yard, since a rate alone doesn't tell you what to expect to pay.
Get my flat written quoteQuality residential turf typically holds up 15-20 years before the fibers start showing UV wear. The base underneath, if built correctly the first time, lasts the life of the turf and doesn't need to be redone.
Yes. A typical 1,000 sq ft California lawn uses an estimated 40,000-70,000 gallons of water a year, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California estimates about 44 gallons saved per square foot per year after converting to turf. The savings show up directly on your water bill rather than through a rebate check.
Not through the City of Chino Hills' turf-removal rebate program. That program specifically pays up to $2 per square foot for replacing lawn with organic, drought-tolerant landscaping, and explicitly excludes synthetic turf as a qualifying conversion. Your savings come from eliminated water and mowing costs directly, not a rebate check. We'll tell you straight if a program doesn't apply rather than let you assume it does.
Under California Civil Code 4735 (AB 349, signed into law in 2015), an HOA cannot prohibit artificial turf outright, any governing-document provision that bans it or has the effect of banning it is void and unenforceable. Your HOA can still require architectural approval and set reasonable rules on appearance, color, or how it blends with the community's design standards, but it cannot flatly deny your project just because it doesn't want turf. Given how much of Chino Hills is HOA-governed, this is worth knowing before you assume you need to fight for approval.
It runs warmer than living grass in direct August sun, that's real, especially south-facing hillside yards. Lighter-colored infill and a slightly longer pile height both reduce surface temperature, and we'll talk through options if you have kids or pets using the yard in peak afternoon heat.
Removal and base prep are part of the installation, priced as one job. You don't need to do anything to the yard before we arrive.
Same business day, Mon-Fri.
