Did you know that having a well-cared for lawn has many benefits beyond making your home and yard look great? One of the major benefits of a lawn is reducing the temperature around your home.
With an average temperature of 90 degrees during the summer months in Spanish Fork Utah, it makes sense to find ways to reduce the heat and save on air conditioning costs.
A well maintained and serviced lawn can decrease the temperature immediately around your home by 7 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit. This is done through a process called evapotranspiration. Through this process of water evaporating off of the grass, a cooling effect takes place reducing the temperature in the air.
Natural, well cared for, green grass has a much cooler surface temperature than artificial grass, dirt and soil, or asphalt and concrete. Surface temperatures over the lawn stay 15 to 20 degrees cooler than artificial grass, 10 to 14 degrees cooler than dirt and soil, and 20 to 30 degrees cooler than asphalt and concrete.
Grass is even more effective at cooling the air than plants and trees. Although trees can provide shade during the hot summer months, the lawn acts like an air conditioner taking in water and evaporating it through tiny holes on the surface of its blades leaving the air cooler. Your lawn air conditioner is working 24 hours day and night so that you can use your home air conditioner even less, saving energy and money.
Another benefit of a green healthy lawn is that each blade of grass varies in size, shape and angle. This allows the grass to disperse sunlight reducing the glare on eyes and increasing visibility compared to surfaces that reflect light causing glare.
The healthier and greener your grass is, the better it can reduce temperatures around your home and reduce glare, giving you and your family a comfortable space to host friends, enjoy summer barbecues, and play in the yard on the grass.
A lot of work goes into keeping your lawn as healthy as possible including fertilization, weed control, and aeration. Lawn Doctor specializes in keeping your Spanish Fork grass healthy so that you can reap the benefits of a cooler yard, less glare, and save on your energy bill. Lawn Doctor can even seed a new lawn for you or help you reseed your lawn to make it thicker, increasing the lawn’s ability to reduce temperature and glare around your home to keep you cool.
