What is it ?
How it Works !
Coverage requirement per 1 square metre @ 20% resin | ||
40mm depth | 16 kg mulch with 3.2 kg resin | |
50mm depth | 20 kg mulch with 4 kg resin |
* prices excluding carriage and VAT
The Benefits !
Resists compaction
Dries quickly
Resists freezing
Not rot or blow away
Rubber mulch Is made from recycled solid rubber from vehicle tyres. It is coated in a polyurethane flexible paint. This paint is safe for children and the environment, containing no heavy metals. However, as with all painted products, it will oxidise and need recoating. We would recommend every three to four years. The rubber mulch should continue performing its primary function of critical fall height safety for many decades. However when the paint wears off, it can cause a blackening, like when you rub your fingers along a car tyre. The advantage of rubber mulch is that it is simple and cheap to lay, requiring no ground preparation other than a heavy duty porous membrane. Whilst rubber mulch is entirely suitable for use as a playground surface, it will wear more quickly than a coloured wet pour surface. Therefore, it is recommended that areas of very high use (e.g. below swings, adjacent to roundabouts, at gateways and at the base of slides etc) are completed using a wear pad of coloured EPDM.
Disclaimer: This system is designed to be installed for a wide variety of applications, subject to the performance requirements for your particular application and your existing site conditions, the degrees of preparation may vary.
This is a new system being tested and so far shows the same performance as Bonded Mulch whilst saving over 20% in costs. For example our tests show a that a 40mm bonded mulch system can perform exactly the same as a hybrid of 20mm top layer bonded mulch (with 20% resin) and 20mm base layer 2-6mm rubber crumb (10% resin).
After all, the more expensive coloured bonded mulch can not be seen 20mm down and the resin to hold the rubber together is not as critcal in the base layer as the top layer.
The only downside may that laying may takes 2 days instead of one because the base needs curing firstly. Also if the same mixer is being used it will need cleaning out after the laying the 2-6mm crumb SBR base layer. Please enquire for more information.
Depth mm | Fall Height | Make Up |
45 | 1.2m | 45mm mulch |
70 | 2.2m | 45mm mulch & 25mm SBR 2-6mm |
130 | 3.1m | 45mm mulch & 25mm SBR 2-6mm |
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