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What Do You Put at The End of a Kids Slide?

Playground Slide Landing Mat In Front of the End of a Orange Slide

A rubber slide mat is an impact absorbent safety mat that is designed to provide a safer landing surface for children when they are exiting a slide. Rubber it the best material for creating playground safety surfaces as it can offer both shock absorption and non-slip traction. Impact absorbent surfacing for playgrounds is available in the form of rubber tiles for playgrounds, making it easy to customize them according to the size of the slide structure. Additionally, rubber is ideal for playground fall protection as it not only provides a shock absorbent and traction surface, but it also provides a long-lasting and durable playground floor that will remain reliable for years in abrasive indoor or outdoor settings. Furthermore, rubber playground matting is easy to install with the use of small plastic connector pins.

“Eco-Sport 1-inch” Interlocking Rubber Flooring Tiles

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What Do You Put at The End of a Kids Slide?

You put an impact absorbent rubber slide mat at the end of a kids slide to provide a safe and cushioned landing surface. It is important to install rubber playground matting at the end of the slide to prevent dangerous life-threatening injuries. In addition, the ground at the end of the slide can be covered with abrasive factors, such as sticks and pebbles, that can cause scrapes and scratches. A rubber slide mat will provide a barrier between abrasive factors and will keep children safe from scrapes as well as impact injuries, including bruising and head injury. Because children will be coming down slides at different speeds, it is important to install safety surfacing that extends far enough to provide sufficient playground fall protection. 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, then the cleared surface at the end of the slide should extend out 6 feet as well. Rubber tiles for playgrounds will also provide durable, impact absorbent playground safety surfaces between the force of an impact and the hard subfloor. The rubber material possesses a low compression set which allows it to be a buoyant surface that will be safe to land on without worry of injury. Not only does a rubber slide mat offer excellent impact absorption, but they also offer non-slip traction. Because children will be coming down the slide with a bit of momentum, a grippy rubber slide mat will prevent children from slipping on wet surfaces. Rubber retains a natural high coefficient of friction which allows it to retain its grippy surface even when moisture is present. The process of re-adhering recycled rubber crumbs back together to form slide mat tiles produces a textured surface that further enhances the tiles’ traction properties.

“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!

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One Candy Corn Colored Eco Safety 3 Inch Tile On Top of a Blue Steel Colored Eco Safety 3 Inch Tile

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What Do You Put Under a Slide?

You put rubber slide mat tiles under a slide to create playground safety surfaces under and around playground equipment to reduce chances of serious, life-threatening injuries in case of a fall. It is important to install impact absorbent rubber playground matting as most playground injuries are the result of a fall off playground equipment and onto a hard play surface. For instance, falls account for 90% of the most severe playground-related injuries (brainline.org). So, not only can children get hurt after a tumble when exiting a slide, but they can also get injured after falling of the slide platform as well. With interlocking slide mat tiles, it is easy to create a safety surface that can sufficiently cover the required area around the slide structure. It is easy to customize the size of the playground floor with the use of interlocking rubber tiles for playgrounds simply by connecting the tiles together with the plastic connector pins used to connect them. Interlocking slide mat tiles are customizable playground flooring options. To customize, simply continue adding tiles until you have reached your desired size – they can even be made smaller later by removing tiles as needed. Additionally, rubber playground tiles are available in four thicknesses, including 3/4″, 1”, 2.5”, and 3”, allowing you to choose the correct thickness according to the height of the slide structure.

It is important to place an impact absorbent and non-slip rubber playground safety surfaces at the end of a slide as well as around the entire slide structure. Made of durable recycled rubber crumb, rubber tiles for playgrounds can absorb the force of an impact which significantly reduces chances of dangerous life-threatening injuries. The composition of recycled rubber crumb gives the tiles a unique surface texture that adds to rubber’s natural traction-enhancing capabilities. Rubber playground matting tiles are made of tire-derived recycled rubber crumb which gives it excellent resistance against harsh environmental factors, including UV rays, ozone, oxygen, and moisture. They are also available in 4 different safety-tested thicknesses, allowing you to create the perfect slide mat for the height of your slide.

 

  • 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.

Rubber Swing Set Mats 9mm x 48″ Diameter

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Playground Slide Landing Mats – 29” x 32”

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