Playground Question

[Familycare71]

Those of you who don't have to have tremendous amounts of mulch or sand under your equipment are very lucky. We can't even have small climbers placed on grass area's. They have to be placed on surfaces. I would love to get a large play set for my DCK's but can't afford the space or materials to make it up to code.

Agree! I sold my play set because I was going to need 12' of mulch 6" or more deep! So I have been looking for alternatives for my dck's... I purchased a teeter totter that they LOVE only to be told that needs 6" of mulch under it too! If their feet can leave the floor mulch (or substrate) is required now! The inspection lady said they even required it for a little tikes alligator teeter totter!!:confused:

[Blackcat31]

Agree! I sold my play set because I was going to need 12' of mulch 6" or more deep! So I have been looking for alternatives for my dck's... I purchased a teeter totter that they LOVE only to be told that needs 6" of mulch under it too! If their feet can leave the floor mulch (or substrate) is required now! The inspection lady said they even required it for a little tikes alligator teeter totter!!:confused:

The information in this thread is probably still relevant but the post you are quoting is from 2010.

[JLH]

We're getting our ground cover in this weekend. We have to have 9" of approved material with a 6 foot fall zone surrounding any play equipment intended for climbing. We are putting in a 25' x 30' wood enclosure filled with pea gravel. It will cost about $1,000 by the time we pay for the gravel and lumber. This is all for a little tikes 8-in-1 playground climber for toddlers. Since we are going to the expense of putting in the ground cover, we will probably upgrade the little tikes toy to a big wooden playground in the near future to keep up with our competition in the area. We decided to use pea gravel instead of wood chips because pea gravel doesn't need to be topped off and maintained as often as wood chips.

[originalkat]

This post is old...but I just wanted to update my information on the outdoor carpet under the play set. I ended up putting pea gravel over the outdoor carpet (4-6 in deep). That was 3 years ago. I have never replenished it and NO weeds have grown into the rocks because of the outdoor carpet. BEST choice I could have made. I highly recommend it.