rubber chippings for play areas
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hi,
anyone here have any experience of the rubber chippings/bark for play areas?
i'm landscaping my garden and we are having a play area for junior and i am considering these instead of play bark. i've looked on tinterweb for prices and they seem to vary in price b a large amount. the area that will be covered will (roughly) 30m2. how do they hold up to wear, colourchange and most importantly, do they do what they're supposed to? (protect the little loved ones from falls etc....
cheers for the replies in advance.
Al.
anyone here have any experience of the rubber chippings/bark for play areas?
i'm landscaping my garden and we are having a play area for junior and i am considering these instead of play bark. i've looked on tinterweb for prices and they seem to vary in price b a large amount. the area that will be covered will (roughly) 30m2. how do they hold up to wear, colourchange and most importantly, do they do what they're supposed to? (protect the little loved ones from falls etc....
cheers for the replies in advance.
Al.
A.C.E said:
hi,
anyone here have any experience of the rubber chippings/bark for play areas?
i'm landscaping my garden and we are having a play area for junior and i am considering these instead of play bark. i've looked on tinterweb for prices and they seem to vary in price b a large amount. the area that will be covered will (roughly) 30m2. how do they hold up to wear, colourchange and most importantly, do they do what they're supposed to? (protect the little loved ones from falls etc....
cheers for the replies in advance.
Al.
Hi, you could try giving www.tyrerenewals.co.uk a ring. I have done some business with them in the past and remember him saying that they make rubber pellets for playgrounds like you're talking about.anyone here have any experience of the rubber chippings/bark for play areas?
i'm landscaping my garden and we are having a play area for junior and i am considering these instead of play bark. i've looked on tinterweb for prices and they seem to vary in price b a large amount. the area that will be covered will (roughly) 30m2. how do they hold up to wear, colourchange and most importantly, do they do what they're supposed to? (protect the little loved ones from falls etc....
cheers for the replies in advance.
Al.
Might be a bit of an industrial scale but worth a go. The owner is a nice chap.
Tiggsy said:
Waiting for the PH response of "concert the lot, didn't do me any harm"
Just worked out what you meant 
Bark is a lot cheaper than rubber, but has a shorter life. We used coarse bark chippings, much cheaper than play bark, 6" deep initially but has compacted to 4" over 3 years. We'll top it up every few years, but it's still going to work out cheaper over the years.
Did exactly this a year ago. Looked at bark, but it went against it due to the fact it holds moisture, will blow around and also that cats like taking a dump in it.
I bought a 500kg bag of rubber chippings off a eBay retailer in the end. I went for rubber as they were non toxic, don't blow around, don't need to be topped up, quick to dry and don't attract cats.
Having lived with them for a year, I'm sure I made the right choice.
The only downside would be the fact that young kids (as in any age between 1 and 6) do like to throw them about. Drives me nuts getting them off the grass, but wood chip would have been no different.
If you need the eBay retailer details, I can dig it up when back in the country later this week.
They were well priced from memory as I researched them quite heavily at the time. 250 quid springs to mind but can confirm if that helps?
Cheers
Matt
I bought a 500kg bag of rubber chippings off a eBay retailer in the end. I went for rubber as they were non toxic, don't blow around, don't need to be topped up, quick to dry and don't attract cats.
Having lived with them for a year, I'm sure I made the right choice.
The only downside would be the fact that young kids (as in any age between 1 and 6) do like to throw them about. Drives me nuts getting them off the grass, but wood chip would have been no different.
If you need the eBay retailer details, I can dig it up when back in the country later this week.
They were well priced from memory as I researched them quite heavily at the time. 250 quid springs to mind but can confirm if that helps?
Cheers
Matt
matts4 said:
Did exactly this a year ago. Looked at bark, but it went against it due to the fact it holds moisture, will blow around and also that cats like taking a dump in it.
The law of unintended consequences; perhaps there's a market for a chemical which can be sprayed on bark chips that will make them smell like rubber? 
Just used rubber chippings in our garden. We have a friend that works for http://www.ecoscapemulch.co.uk/looserubbermulch.ht... so we got a load of quarantined stock for free!
Looks good but smells a bit funky for a week or so!
Looks good but smells a bit funky for a week or so!
Sixpackpert said:
Just used rubber chippings in our garden. We have a friend that works for http://www.ecoscapemulch.co.uk/looserubbermulch.ht... so we got a load of quarantined stock for free!
Looks good but smells a bit funky for a week or so!
Thats the sort of deal i'm after - is that offer repeatable :-) Looks good but smells a bit funky for a week or so!
I used bark around ours, no problem with the cats dumping in it, and installed a land drain under it which has dealt with water issues. It doesn't blow around either maybe because I am using a woodland bark which has larger pieces?
For the "I didn't have a soft landing when I was a kid brigade" when we first installed the play equipment it sat straight on the lawn, the problem was that underneath the swings and at the stepping points on to the rest of it became a sea of mud, and all the grass was worn away.
To try and install some element of danger the bark is set down into the lawn with a wooden trim easily if falling distance
For the "I didn't have a soft landing when I was a kid brigade" when we first installed the play equipment it sat straight on the lawn, the problem was that underneath the swings and at the stepping points on to the rest of it became a sea of mud, and all the grass was worn away.
To try and install some element of danger the bark is set down into the lawn with a wooden trim easily if falling distance
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