A rubber playground slide mat can provide safety benefits including shock absorption and non-slip traction. Made of durable and reliable rubber materials, outside safety mats for playgrounds are versatile indoor/outdoor products that can stand up well against damaging environmental factors. Shock absorbent rubber ground mats are available in a range of thicknesses, allowing you to provide sufficient shock absorption according to the height of the equipment found in the playground. In addition, the padded play mats will also actively prevent slip and fall accidents by remaining a non-slip surface even in the presence of moisture and wet weather. Furthermore, rubber playground covering options are easily customized according to the size of the slide and the use zone around the exit and overall structure.
Playground Slide Landing Mats
- Traction Qualities: The surface texture of the rubber mats makes for a slip-resistant surface that will help reduce trips and falls and kids land on the mat.
- Increased Safety: The rubber surface reduces the uneven ground surface that may have developed due to wear and increase safety by evening out the ground level.
- Ground Wear Protection: The 5mm thick rubber playground slide mat is the ideal gauge to added a layer of wear surface above your playground surface.
Inexpensive Floor Protection:
A rubber mat for bottom of a slide is an ideal way to protect playground floors. Playground slides mats are a useful tool in maintaining the lustre of a playground and adding life to heavy impact and traffic areas under playground slides. Wear by abrasion will cause erosion over time. In a playground play areas will wear from repeated impact and contact. This form of wear is caused by contact between shoes and playground floor material. Since the landing area of a slide is immovable, the surface around the landing location will always suffer more damage and ear than other parts of a playground. If a playground’s floor surface is made from rubber tiles, pour-in-place rubber or turf, this abrasive wear will cause a loss of material by the passage of hard shoes over the surface. The damage to playground flooring can be expensive and pre-empting the damage by using a rubber mat for the playground slide’s landing surface that will protect your investment.
What Do You Put at the Bottom of a Slide?
You put a rubber playground slide mat at the bottom of a slide to increase traction and provide sufficient cushioning in case of a fall. Because slides are commonly found in outdoor playgrounds, placing shock absorbent and non-slip rubber ground mats at the bottom of a slide is extremely important in maintaining safety against the hard original surface. It is also important that you use materials that can withstand abrasive environmental factors. Rubber playground flooring is made of resilient recycled rubber, allowing it to be used outdoors without worry of damage caused by environmental factors. When used outdoors, a recycled rubber playground slide mat will resist degradation caused by UV rays, ozone, oxygen, and wet weather conditions. Vehicle tires frequently experience abrasive terrains and weather conditions – this same durability is seen in the performance of rubber outside safety mats. Damaged and uneven matting or surfacing at the bottom of a slide can cause tripping hazards that may cause a fall. It is important to have a traction-enhancing playground slide mat at the bottom of a side to prevent dangerous slip and fall accident from occurring. Rubber is a moisture resistant material that will retain its grippy surface even when liquids are present on its surface. Because children will be coming down the slide at a certain speed, a grippy rubber playground slide mat will prevent children from slipping on wet surfaces. It is also important to place shock absorbent mats underneath slides in case of a tumble. Not only can children get hurt when exiting a slide, but they can also fall off the standing platform of a slide and injure themselves. Rubber padded play mats are available in set sizes or interlocking tiles so that you can customize the mat to the appropriate size according to the fall height of the structure. Generally, it is recommended to place rubber ground mats underneath the entire slide structure in case of a fall off the standing platform. Interlocking tiles are customizable playground covering options that allow you to change the size of the rubber surfacing according to the size of the slide structure whereas mats of set sizes are perfect for smaller areas.
Rubber Swing Set Mats 54” Diameter
What Do You Put at the End of a Playground Slide?
You put a rubber playground slide mat that is large enough to cover the use zone of the slide to provide sufficient safety padding at the end of a playground slide. A padded rubber playground slide mat can provide a durable barrier between the force of an impact and the hard subfloor. Rubber playground tiles are available in 4 thicknesses, including 3/4″, 1”, 2.5”, and 3”, allowing you to choose the correct thickness to provide sufficient shock absorption according to the height of the slide. Their interlocking mechanism makes it easy to customize the size of the surface. Case in point, “The cleared area in front of the slide should extend a distance equal to the height of the slide platform” (healthychildren.org). Therefore, if the platform of the slide is 6 feet high, then the shock absorbent surface in front and around the entire slide structure should extend out at least 6 feet. Because the original surface of a playground may be rough or filled with rocks and pebbles that may cause injuries, it is important to put rubber ground mats at the bottom of slides to cover rough surfaces. For instance, “Make sure there are no rocks, glass, sticks, toys, debris, or other children at the base of a slide. These could get in the way of a child landing safely” (healthychildren.org). An interlocking playground slide mat can also help prevent serious life-threatening head injuries. Due to the material’s excellent shock absorption properties, “Rubber tiles are popular in playgrounds as protective surfacing to reduce the incidence of head injuries caused by children falling from equipment” (worldscientific.com). Rubber playground tiles can prevent dangerous head injuries by absorbing the force of impact and providing an overall softer landing surface for children to land on without worry.
Interlocking playground covering options are the ideal surfacing option for flooring at the end of and around a slide. Made of durable and reliable recycled tire rubber materials, outside safety mats will remain intact in the face of UV rays, ozone, oxygen, and moisture, allowing for long-lasting safety in outdoor settings. Rubber’s shock absorption properties help prevent dangerous life-threatening injuries from occurring while its moisture resistant non-slip traction helps actively prevent slips and falls. The interlocking mechanism of the rubber ground mats, it is easy to customize the size of the slide surface according to the fall height of the slide structure. A rubber playground slide mat is designed to provide a safe, shock absorbent surface for children to safety land on when exiting a slide.
“Eco-Sport 1-inch” Interlocking Rubber Flooring Tiles
- This rubber surfacing can be permanently installed using adhesive glue
- Great for use as gym flooring, flooring for a basement, outdoor deck surfacing, playground surfacing, trade show floors, and more
- Ramps available upon request. The sloped ramps are great for use as safe entry points and are useful for getting wheeled equipment onto the mats
Surface Protection: Since these rubber floor tiles are 1″ thick, each outdoor tile is perfect for protecting the base surfacing of an area. Heavy objects and/or a high volume of foot traffic can damage surfaces like wood. By installing this durable rubber surfacing, you are essentially adding a barrier between your area’s base surfacing and outside stresses like treadmills or sofas.
DIY Flooring: Another feature that makes these recycled mats so popular is their ease of installation. It makes a great do-it-yourself project, saving you the unwanted additional expenses of hiring third party installers. Each outdoor tile comes with pre-drilled holes on each side. These holes are meant for special connector pins (sold separately) that hold each tile firmly together. The beauty of interlocking floor tiles lies in their easy to install nature. Save yourself some extra time and money with these rubber floor tiles!