The Pitch…..what can be done about it?

With you there mate.
I had a customer complain about his exterior door we had fit about 10 years before. Out of courtesy i called to have a look and found it still had the grey priming paint we had fit it with, he had never finish painted in all those years and wondered why it had started to rot.

 

Rain again forecast for tonight and tomorrow going to make sure before travelling once again

 

If the ref says ok then we have nothing else to go on.

 

Stop scaremongering Park. There is a tiny bit MIGHT come down during the early hours, other than that - blue sunny cloudless skies

I see you have ignored all the replies to your silly post. I wonder why

 

I feel for you and we wonder why the country is in a mess when people as intelligent as your customer gets a vote.? Aaaargh .

 

BBC weather for Bradford . No rain after 6 am tomorrow ,10 degrees, sunny with light winds.

 

Best thing was, he threatened legal action and getting trading standards in.
I told him to fire way, we still had his quote , invoice and a photo of the said door on completion by ourselves.
Like you say, some people.

 

Dig a trench down about 30 feet on the pitch side of the wall that is supposed to sit below the pitch and was part of the foundations of the original MR stand, drill some bloody big holes in the wall then refill up to about 5ft with gravel. Like a "french drain".

Either that or bite the bullet and install undersoli heating so it doesnt get as wet.

 

I suspect tech has moved on Rod , I can’t seem to find anything to replicate the Filbert St set up for football stadia

I didn’t realise players could train underneath it!

“It features the nationally famous polysphere tent which was unique to Filbert Street and protected the pitch from frost and snow.”

 

Why will undersoil heating stop it getting wet? Will it boil the water off the pitch?

 

No, but it would help dry the surface out better than not having it. No coincidence that PL & CC teams rarely suffer waterlogging

 

No idea what you are talking about surprise surprise

 

Sheffield united have a nice pitch!
That’s going well not

 

Because he is admiring to himself he is silly.

 

Ah here comes SpongeBob with his pearls of wisdom.

 

That's to do with the drainage rather the undersoil heating, also they have heat lamps all over the pitch 24/7 in the colder months which keeps the grass healthy and helps prevent waterlogged pitches. It's no coincidence that in the last few seasons when our pitch has been one of the best in the league we've not had postponements for waterlogged pitch.
For the limited benefit that it would have it's not worth the huge cost of installing and maintaining it.

 

I was going on a cruise in 2015. The ship couldn’t dock very high winds in Southampton. So they put us in the Southampton FC facilities to wait. We went down to look at the pitch like you do, and I was astonished. They had about 10 rows of lamps on the pitch that stretched right across the pitch. It had auto timing and during winter it was on most nights. The ground staff said they have had lush pitches as the lamps provided heat and light so the grass never stopped growing.

 

At some point if we keep drilling holes in the wall it will give

 

Just one issue, heat lamps, and healthy grass doesn’t stop a waterlogged pitch. Ask Colchester.