Geotextile Landscape Fabric

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Geotextile Fabrics

Selected and installed correctly, this fabric will reveal its true value. The first and foremost benefit of polypropylene landscape fabric is soil separation and weed prevention. By separating soil layers, the fabric will prevent soils from mixing.

Before the age of geotextile technology, construction sites struggled with mixing soil layers during construction. When constructing roads, processed gravel applied to the surface would usually sink into the softer subsoils. Most construction workers understood the phrase spread 50 lbs of stone over 50 lbs of mud and you get 100 lbs of mud. What would happen, the heavier stone material would easily sink and disappear into the softer subsurface material.

When geotextile fabrics are properly installed over the subsurface, the process of mixing and contamination are literally eliminated. In order to get the best results, choosing the appropriate, site-specific geotextile fabric is critical.

The two most popular fabrics are woven and nonwoven. Woven geotextiles are made of woven slit film polypropylene material  They combine high strength and low permeability and are extremely effective at bridging over wet or inferior soil layers. On the other hand, nonwoven geotextiles combine the strength of woven fabrics with high permeability making this fabric a better choice when the applications require both separation and filtration. Nonwoven fabrics are made of needle-punched polypropylene that will allow separation and filtration to take place at the same time.

Outside of woven and nonwoven fabrics, there are two other important geotextile product groups that are very important for ground stabilization. These products are woven monofilaments that combine the strength of woven with the permeability of nonwoven fabrics.  That said, spun-bound fabrics combine the toughness of woven geotextiles with the permeability of nonwoven products.

Spun-Bound Geotextiles

Spun-bound geotextiles are used when high strength, durability, and permeability are very important. During manufacturing, the product is spun, rolled, and heated to create a very tough but permeable product. Spun-bound geotextiles are usually specified where high strength and long product life are essential. Spun-bound geotextiles are used in landscaping and recreational applications, septic system construction, and subsurface drainage.