Bunkers built to last more than a season.
A renovated bunker should hold its shape, drain in a downpour, and stay playable through the winter. Too many do not. We rebuild bunkers properly, with the Capillary Flow system, so the work holds for years rather than seasons.
BOOK AN ASSESSMENTWhy bunkers fail.
Most bunker problems come down to water and what sits under the sand. After heavy rain the sand washes down to the base and piles at the edges, so the greens staff are out raking and barrowing it back before the course can play. A poor liner holds water in instead of draining it through, and the bunker stays wet for days. Within a few seasons a bunker built on the cheap is back on the list to be done again.
A bunker rebuilt properly should not do any of that. It should drain quickly, keep its face and its shape, and ask far less of your greens team week to week.
The work, step by step.
Every bunker is taken back to the ground and rebuilt in order. The shape is not only about how it looks, it is what keeps the sand in place and moves water where it should go.
We take out the old sand, remove whatever liner is in there, and cart it away.
We mark the bunker out to the shape the club wants and cut a shelf around the edge to work to.
We dig and blend the bunker down into its finished form. The shape keeps the sand where it should sit and moves water around the bunker rather than letting it pool. We keep the faces within a workable angle, because too steep and the sand simply washes off.
With the shape right, the drainage goes in, and the Capillary Flow concrete liner is laid over it.
The bunker is faced, with synthetic turf or natural grass depending on the look and upkeep the club prefers, and the surround is turfed back in. Sand goes in last. What you are left with is a bunker that drains, holds its shape, and looks the part from the tee.
Concrete, and a guarantee behind it.
The liner is a Capillary Flow concrete system, and concrete is what we have worked with all our lives. Rather than simply lining the base, it moves water both ways. It holds moisture in the sand when conditions are dry, and drains water away quickly when they are wet, so the bunker stays consistent through the seasons.
Installed as it is designed to be, with the Capillary Box, the system carries a fifteen-year guarantee. That is the difference between a bunker you rebuild once and a bunker you keep rebuilding.
Drag the slider to see the difference.
The same bunkers, before the work and after, rebuilt on the Capillary Flow system. Drag across each image to compare.
Bunkers giving you trouble?
Tell us what they are doing after rain, and we will come and look. You will get a straight assessment of what is causing it and what we would do, with no obligation either way.
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