- Before – plastic timbers made it impossible for children with walkers or wheelchairs to access all areas of the playground.
- THIS is what made all the work worth it!
Many, many thanks to everyone who helped to make our playground project a reality! Our playground shade structures, surfacing, and equipment have all been installed. Phase 2 of our project will be to replace our fence and our storage shed.
Shade structures and the tire swings were purchased from Grounds for Play. Surfacing and the rock wall tunnel were purchased from Playworld Carolinas. FunHoop was purchased from PlaygroundPackages.com. The equipment and surfacing installation was completed by Reese Construction out of Apex. Many thanks to John Payne, the Lee County Kiwanis Club, and the Lee County Parks and Recreation Department (to whom we donated the plastic timbers and the arch climber) for saving us money by completing the demolition work!
Toddler Town "before" shot
- Infant area “before” shot
Future location of tire swings
Future location of Fun Hoop
Future location of Rock Wall Tunnel
Demo begins!
Demo
- What a mess!
Sub-base before being crushed flat
The CRUSHER!
Starting to install the bonded rubber
"FunHoop" with the big mixer in the background
A dream fulfilled
Close-Up of the surfacing - rubber mulch and glue bonded together and smoothed out to form a solid surface
This was a LONG process
Watching them get the holes level in order to install this tire swing post was fascinating
This guys worked hard...and it was HOT!
Beautiful! There can only be so many inches between the exit of the slide and the top of the surfacing so this was the most challenging area...it wasn't like we could change the height of the slide!
- Safe place for infants to crawl? CHECK!
Somewhere for the kids to throw balls other than over the fence? CHECK!
Swings that are safe and fun for all? CHECK!
Awesome climbing structure? CHECK!
Ready for the kids!
September 11, 2009 at 9:11 pm
this is thrilling! love the pictures
December 5, 2009 at 1:33 am
We came across your playground project while researching the use for rubber mulch. Great job on the project! It really came out great!
Okay, with that out of the way I am not trying to find out what type of epoxy (glue) to hold the rubber mulch together? I have a small area to do at my in-laws and we were looking to do the same with the rubber mulch.
Thanks,
Rick
December 9, 2009 at 6:33 am
Thank you! We love it a lot! My super scientific answer is that the contractors took huge bags of rubber mulch and barrels of glue and mixed them together in an agitator! I wish I could tell you more, but you can contact Reese Construction and they should be able to help you: http://www.reeseconstructionllc.com/Home/tabid/4328/Default.aspx
Good luck!