Artificial Turf Cost Estimator

Get to a realistic number before anyone comes out.

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What Will Turf Cost in Your Yard?

Most turf pricing online quotes national averages that have little to do with what anything costs here. Set your project up below and you'll get a Portland-metro range, along with an honest view of what pushes it up or down.

What are you installing?
sq ft

Not sure? Pace the area out, a normal walking step is close to three feet. Length times width is close enough for this.

Site access
How the yard drains
What's there now

Ballpark range

$13,500–$17,000

800 sq ft of artificial grass lawn, about $17.00–$21.00 per sq ft installed.

This is a planning range, not a quote. Real pricing depends on what we find on site, grade, subgrade, drainage outlets, and turf specification. We've never charged anyone for finding out.

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Includes excavation, haul-away, base, drainage, turf, infill, and edging. Excludes permits where required, irrigation changes, and hardscape work.

What Moves the Price

Four Things Decide Your Number

Turf specification

Face weight, pile height, and backing type set the material cost. A pet-specific backing or a nylon putting surface costs meaningfully more than a standard landscape turf.

Excavation and haul-away

How much material comes out, and what it costs to dispose of, is often the single largest labour line. Removing concrete or pavers costs more than stripping sod.

Drainage work

A lot that drains naturally needs a standard base. A lot with heavy clay and a low spot needs French drains and a piped outlet, a difference measured in thousands.

Site access

A yard a compact machine can reach is dramatically cheaper to build than one where every yard of rock and every load of spoil moves by wheelbarrow. This surprises people most.

A note on suspiciously cheap bids

A bid meaningfully below this range is almost always cutting the invisible parts: shallower excavation, aggregate with fines in it, compaction in one pass instead of in lifts, no drainage design, staples through the face instead of glued seams. None of it shows on the day the job finishes. All of it shows within a few seasons.

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FAQ

Questions About Turf Pricing

How accurate is this artificial turf cost calculator?+
It will put you in the right ballpark, and that's all it's meant to do. The ranges come from real Portland-metro installed pricing, and the multipliers reflect the site conditions that most often move a bid. What it can't see is your actual grade, your subgrade, where water can be routed to, or how much turf you'll want once you've handled samples. Treat it as a planning number, not a quote.
What does the estimate include?+
Excavation and haul-away, the compacted aggregate base, drainage, the turf itself, infill, perimeter securing, and edge detailing. That is the complete installed price. It excludes permits where a project requires them, irrigation modifications, and any hardscape work like patios or borders.
Why is the range so wide?+
Because being falsely precise would be worse. Turf specification alone can swing material cost substantially, and two yards of identical size can differ by thousands depending on access and drainage. A narrow number would look more confident and be less honest.
Why do small projects cost more per square foot?+
Fixed costs don't scale down. Mobilising a crew, running a dump trailer, and hitting disposal minimums cost roughly the same for 200 square feet as for 800. On small jobs that overhead spreads across very little area, which pushes the per-square-foot number up.
Do you offer financing?+
Yes. We offer flexible financing options. Turf is a one-time cost that replaces years of watering, mowing, reseeding, and moss treatment, and spreading it out makes that trade easier to act on. Ask about it when we come out.

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