Filter Fabric

What do you need?

Filter fabric and weed barrier are both essential products to landscaping but they are not interchangable. Filter fabric is typically used to wrap perforated drain pipe to minimize silt and debris transfer into your piping to maintain a healthy drain flow. Weed barrier is used to block the growth of weeds from below by minimizing light transfer while allowing, air, moisture, and nutrients to pass through.

Filter Fabric

Nonwoven geotextiles from the C Series are permeable technical textiles made from synthetic fibres used in civil engineering, environmental, and landscape architecture projects in order to separate, filter, improve drainage, reinforce, and distribute loads on ground ore effectively. They are permanent and are not sensitive to acids occurring naturally in soils. This gives them an operational life beyond that of the projects that they protect.

Main Functions of Filter Fabric

• Separation: separate two materials having different particle sizes in order to prevent contamination that could accelerate the degradation of the project
• Filtration: allow the passage of a liquid from one soil or material to another, while preventing the uncontrolled passage of particles;
• Drainage: collect, canalise and displace liquids. This allows liquids to be distanced from structures, thus protecting the structure, because the presence of liquids is one of the principal causes of structural degradation
• Reinforcement : allow to increase the bearing capacity of soil by increasing the shear strength and the ability to take a part of the load;
• Protection: create a protective layer that reduces pressure points, eliminating or reducing the risk of potential damage to another layer.