Reduce Maintenance Expenses With Softball Field Covers

To protect your field of play from the elements and improve player safety, consider investing in good quality protection. With daily use, your field can sustain significant damage over time that is difficult to contain. Winter rain and precipitation is especially harsh on baseball and softball turf. Facility managers who use these specially designed field covers to cover playing areas spend significantly less time and money on maintenance. Let’s take a closer look at some of the short- and long-term benefits.

Benefits of using a softball field cover

• Protects your grounds from rain, hail, sleet, ice, occasional snowfall, wind and UV exposure

• Reinforced polyethylene fabric prevents water from collecting when it rains

• Saves you from avoiding rain stoppages and rain delays between games

• Protects bases, home plate and pitcher’s mound when not in use

• Reduces damage caused by weather in the winter months

• Protects your indoor field from excessive foot traffic

• Gives your turf a chance to recover from play

• Helps maintain ideal playing conditions and reduces the risk of player injury.

• Reduces maintenance effort and cost while maintaining high value

Having the right type of equipment can save you a considerable amount of time, money, and stress in terms of maintenance tasks. In addition to this, you should also consider mound and stain covers and plates for added protection.

When you go shopping, it is highly recommended that you buy quality products made from a single piece of material. Reinforced polyethylene cloth or vinyl work best. Having heavy stitching on the edges helps keep the cover in place. You can also use sandbags or stakes to keep it from moving. Make sure the seams are heat-sealed and double-stitched (to prevent splitting) and have sturdy grommets (preferably brass) for stakes.

Since these come in many sizes, it’s important to know the dimensions of your flooring before you head out to make a purchase. It may be worth investing in canvas rollers which reduce the time required to deploy covers and limit product damage, as well as making storage easier.

Where can you buy these field covers for your installation? Buy from an established sports equipment dealer that offers quality products and consistent service. Cheap, poor quality field covers won’t last too many seasons.

Help outfielders keep bases, batter’s cages and the pitching mound protected with a quality softball field cover.