What to put under a children's climbing frame?

starmirror

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We are in a bit of a dilemma. We have just bought a used heavy duty climbing frame (so heavy it takes the weight of adults and doesn't need anchoring). It will take up most of our garden space at one side of the house. Ideally want grass as wood mulch will attract cat poo, rubber mulch is still mulch and messy and expensive. Apparently you can get very good artificial turf but again expensive.

Right now we only have mud. There was grass but the builders killed it during the house renovation.

We think grass might be the way to go but it will be expensive to lay turf which will most probably get knocked around and flattened by the kids. Grass seeds will take too long to grow.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Hannah

Ebe_Scrooge

You could try rubber matting. If you google "Rubber matting for playgrounds" there's any number of places to get it. It's not cheap, but it sounds like it'll do what you're after, and I imagine you don't have a huge area to be covered ?

LandyAndy

Depends on how much you like the children.

shellsuit

Turf isn't that expensive.

Our back garden is 8x5 metres and we turfed the lot for £90, plus £10 delivery.

wonderwatty

starmirror wrote: »

My first post

We are in a bit of a dilemma. We have just bought a used heavy duty climbing frame (so heavy it takes the weight of adults and doesn't need anchoring). It will take up most of our garden space at one side of the house. Ideally want grass as wood mulch will attract cat poo, rubber mulch is still mulch and messy and expensive. Apparently you can get very good artificial turf but again expensive.

Right now we only have mud. There was grass but the builders killed it during the house renovation.

We think grass might be the way to go but it will be expensive to lay turf which will most probably get knocked around and flattened by the kids. Grass seeds will take too long to grow.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Hannah

Been looking for a similar thing.
Sick and tied of mowing a 3m x 5m garden and am looking for an alternative. Decking or artificial grass. Found a local company that a friend had fitted, looks great and thought I would mention that they do 'safety surfaces' especially for playground etc. check out nomow for your climbing frame.

mensaboy2004

You can buy rubber paving stones and also you can get the same stuff, granulated that you mix with a resin and trowel it out so it looks like black tarmac. I understand recycled tyres are used to manufacture it. Not sure of any brand names but a google search for play ground surfaces or rubber paving should produce some results.

inamegajam

Do you know any one who works for your local council, they use rubber mats in the playgrounds. Sometimes if they are renewing some they will let you have the older ones cheap & they are usually in good condition. but you could always ring them and ask where they get them from. We had our mats off the council & they out lived the climbing frame :beer:

cyclonebri1

Sounds temporary?

Get the rubber chips rather than bark or whatever.

Softer to land on and if you go permanent, good below pavers