A recycled rubber playground cover is the ideal playground safety flooring option thanks to its outstanding shock absorption capabilities. Rubber playground material not only provides excellent shock absorption, but it also offers enhanced traction, making it the all-around safety surfacing options for playgrounds. These rubber outdoor playground mats are highly resistant against damaging environmental factors, allowing it to be a versatile indoor and outdoor playground surfacing option. In addition, the recycled rubber material that is used to create a rubber playground cover offers a textured surface that helps enhance rubber’s already grippy surface. Furthermore, the material composition of a rubber playground cover offers a long-lasting surfacing option that is designed to last for years without worry of deterioration.
Rubber Swing Set Mats 54” Diameter
Rubber Swing Set Mats 54” Diameter
- Easy to clean and water-resistant
- Exhibits excellent weathering and UV resistant qualities
Added Slip-Resistance in Landing Areas: By using a rubber mat for under swing landing area, you can increase the anti-slip qualities of the floor surface thereby increasing safety. A rubber mat is made with materials and properties that help reduce the floor’s slipperiness. Rubber has a naturally high coefficient of friction. These properties, in addition to diamond-plated surface texture, provide a roughened and added traction. This helps the users of the swing area to prevent slip-and-fall accidents by being able to stop at the landing area. Rubber playground mats for under swings help by adding much needed traction in areas that otherwise maybe damaged due to abrasion or grassy patches that may be blading.
Water-Proof, UV and Weather Resistant: Using a UV resistant rubber mat for a swing set ground cover is imperative since the swing set mat is expected to protect the floor surface below. This is especially important when the surface below is natural landscaping like grass and the area may have been damaged. UV and weathering resistance refers to rubber material’s ability to resist UV radiation and outdoor moisture (i.e., rain & snow). Having a waterproof rubber mat for swing areas also reduces the amount of water that can puddle up around areas that have been scraped away. This rubber swing set mat is 100% waterproof and any moisture left on the surface of the mat either will run off or will stay on top and will not get through the body of the rubber mat.
What Do You Put on the Ground of a Playground?
It is generally recommended to put a shock absorbent surface, such as a rubber playground cover, on the ground of a playground help ensure safety as children play. Even surfaces that may seem like they will cushion a fall, such as grass or carpet, are not sufficient to prevent life-threatening injuries. Case in point, “Manufacturers of plastic climbing equipment are labeling their products with warnings to NEVER put the equipment on concrete, asphalt, wood, or other hard surfaces and that carpet may NOT prevent injury” (cpsc.gov). A rubber playground cover is the ideal material for use as protective playground surfacing due to its excellent shock absorption properties. The surface under playground equipment plays a major role in the potential severity of an injury as most playground injuries are the result of falls off playground equipment and onto a hard surface. For instance, about 60% of playground related injuries are caused by falls off the equipment rather than from the equipment themselves (cpsc.gov). It is important to use playground safety flooring that retains excellent shock absorbing qualities as the most shock absorbent the material, the less likely a life-threatening injury is to occur.
“Eco-Sport 3/4-inch” Interlocking Rubber Flooring Tiles
Rubber playground material is the ideal material for playground surfacing as it will offer sufficient shock absorption. The shock absorbing performance of playground surfacing should correlate to the equipment on the playground – this is called “critical height”. According to the Handbook for Playground Safety, the “critical height of a surfacing material can be considered as an approximation of the fall height below which a life-threatening head injury would not be expected to occur” (cpsc.gov). A rubber playground cover retains a low compression set which allows it to efficiently absorb the force of impact without becoming damaged or deformed. In addition, it is also important to take into consideration the playground fall zone, or use zone, when choosing playground safety flooring. A playground fall zone, or use zone, refers to “the surface under and around a piece of equipment onto which a child falling from or exiting from the equipment would be expected to land” (cpsc.gov). A rubber playground cover should be thick enough to efficiently absorb the force of impact of a child jumping or falling from a piece of playground equipment. The higher the surface is, the more shock absorbent the rubber playground flooring must be to prevent life threatening injuries.
What Flooring is Used in Playgrounds?
A recycled rubber playground cover is the type of flooring that is used in playgrounds due to its excellent shock absorption and anti-slip properties. Because children will most likely be running and jumping around, it must also have great shock absorption and anti-slip properties as well. Recycled rubber playground material derives from post-consumer vehicle tires making it highly resistant to rough conditions and damaging physical factors, such as impacts and abrasions. One of the main synthetic rubbers used to create vehicle tires, styrene butadiene rubber, or SBR, is made up of a mixture of butadiene and styrene copolymers which gives it excellent wear and abrasion resistance. For instance, “The addition of styrene lowers the price and contributes to the good wear and bonding properties. The addition of styrene also improves the strength, abrasion resistance, and blend properties of polybutadiene” (polymerdatabase.com). The process of making recycled rubber start with grinding the vehicle tires into a fine crumb. Then, it is mixed in with an adhesive to bond the crumb rubber together to form a larger sheet of rubber. Rubber is already a naturally traction-enhancing material; however, the crumb rubber composition of recycled rubber produces a textured surface on recycled rubber product that help add extra grip to rubber’s already naturally grippy surface. These properties allow a recycled rubber playground cover to be the safest playground surfacing option available.
“Eco-Sport 1-inch” Interlocking Rubber Flooring Tiles
“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!
Can I Use Rubber Flooring Outside?
You can use rubber flooring outside without worry of damage thanks to rubber’s excellent resistance against damaging environmental factors. Rubber playground cover tiles are made of recycled rubber which is a type of rubber that derives from repurposed vehicle tires. Vehicle tires are subjected to constant wear and tear caused by environmental factors, such as UV rays, ozone, oxygen, and moisture, as well as rough terrain making rubber outdoor playground mats resistant to the safe damaging environmental factors. Due to its vehicle tire makeup, recycled rubber outdoor playground mats can be used and left outdoors indefinitely without worry of damage. In addition, its resistance to moisture helps it retain its naturally grippy surface to help prevent dangerous slip and fall accidents. Outdoor surfaces, such as grass and dirt, has no shock absorbing properties; therefore, it is recommended to add a shock absorbent playground surface over these areas. Due to its excellent resistance to damaging environmental factors, recycled rubber can remain a durable and reliable playground surfacing option for outdoor settings.
Recycled rubber playground material is the perfect playground safety flooring for both indoor and outdoor playgrounds. Playground safety flooring is designed to absorb the force of impact to help prevent life threatening injuries caused by falls off playground equipment. Being made of post-consumer vehicle tires, a recycled rubber playground cover offers outstanding resistance against damaging UV rays, ozone, oxygen, and moisture as well as excellent shock absorption properties. This resistance against environmental factors allows for indoor/outdoor versatile usage of a rubber playground cover that can last for years without showing signs of damage. Overall, a rubber playground cover is the ideal and best playground surfacing option that will provide a safer play surface for children.