I ordered artificial turf this week to be installed in my backyard.  What I found in my research and with help of my sales rep from Global Syn Turf and their Texas Turf Distributor is that 100% of the times the artificial turf install pays for itself every time.   I was searching the internet and found Global Syn Turfs Calculate Savings Application on their website.  It is amazing, all you do is put in your square footage and zip code and it tells you the estimated cost of the artificial turf installation and the savings of having no water, no gardener, no fixing sprinklers, no fertilizing and week control and no pesticides for the Pest control.  It ends up I will save $41,964 and 897,120 gallons of water in 20 years.  So it says my installation would cost about $10,000 so it would pay for itself in five years.  I really enjoyed working with Global Syn Turf and their Distributor here in Texas.  Our sales rep Seth was amazing and was with us every step of the way in deciding what turf to install, how to design the yard and over see the installation of our artificial turf.