Indoor turf for Myrtle Beach gyms and studios, planned around your building office's answers.

Myrtle Beach, Conway and Horry County work from the state's code.

Under South Carolina law, every city and county enforces the building and fire codes the state adopts from the International Code Council. The Building Codes Council's regulations bar local governments from writing their own building codes, and a local change needs the Council's approval. So whether your space is in Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway or elsewhere in Horry County, the office that covers it applies the state-adopted code.

The Council must adopt the latest editions at least every four years. When a new edition takes effect, work with an approved permit is finished and inspected under the code in effect when that permit was issued. Ask the building department which edition will apply to your permit.

The fire rules track the same books. The State Fire Marshal's regulations, last amended in 2023, adopt the latest codes the Council adopts and make the International Fire Code the minimum fire-safety standard for the buildings they cover.

In Shallotte, North Carolina's code and Brunswick County apply.

When we checked in September 2026, the NC Office of State Fire Marshal listed the 2018 North Carolina codes, built with the 2015 International Codes, as effective since January 1, 2019 and still current.

A 2024 North Carolina Building Code, based on the 2021 International Building Code, has been approved. The office's March 31, 2025 letter says it takes effect 12 months after the State Fire Marshal certifies that certain events have occurred. Until then the 2018 code governs, unless a building owner or their agent asks for the 2024 code on the project. The office's March 2026 newsletter called that start date still moving.

Shallotte sends building-inspection questions to the Brunswick County Building Inspector. The county's jurisdiction table lists the county for both building and fire inspection in Shallotte. Its Code Administration department covers building inspections, central permitting and the fire marshal.

Ask these before you choose a turf and pad.

Turf is not wood, vinyl or tile, so don't assume it is reviewed like them. Ask the office for your address three things. Does it treat a turf floor as a floor covering? Which fire-test reports does it want? Does the report need to cover the turf and the pad together?

Then ask whether the rating it wants changes where the turf reaches a hallway, an exit route or a room open to one, and whether sprinklers in the building change that. Our article can artificial turf catch fire? explains what the common small-flame pill test does and does not show.

Bring what the answers depend on: the address, a floor plan, whether the building has sprinklers, and what the space was used for before. Ask too whether a turf floor needs a permit at that address.

Bring the answers, and we plan the floor around them.

Book the free visit once you know which office covers the space. We measure the training area, check the floor the turf will sit on, and draw a custom layout you approve before work starts. Then we lay, seam and edge the turf, add infill only where the product calls for it, clean up, and walk you through the care it needs.

Our main indoor turf page covers sled lanes, pads, markings and logos. The Grand Strand page covers the rest of what we install here.