New Richmond High School is another turf field where the administration did not spend the money to put the hash marks on their field, simple conversation when I spoke with the Superintendent. They simply did not have the extra cash back when they installed the turf 10 years ago.
That's surprising.
I went back and looked at the contracts for the last 4 turf projects we did.
None of them had a charge for the inlaid football or soccer markings.
The purchase orders labeled them as "donated".
The cost for each field constructed from "scratch" was over $525,000.00.
The cost for each field that involved removing and replacing exiting turf was over $350,000.00.
The turf itself was able to be purchased directly through purchasing cooperatives.The cost of turf itself,including infill,is included in the above costs.
We did have to pay for custom midfield logos.
They cost between $9,000.00 and $10,000.00
That comes out to between 2% and 3% of the project's cost.
I would assume that,if you had to pay for permanent markings,they'd be in that range,especially since a significant portion of the markings are now factory installed.
Based on the overall projects' costs,it would seem cost effective to "bite the bullet" and include permanent markings,especially when you take into account the labor and material costs to install temporary markings,given a 12 year+ useful life, for synthetic turf.