Author Archives: francescruz

I had my 65 years birthday party just a few days ago. The letter from the Spanish Social Pension System explaining me that I can now happily retire with a modest but reasonable pension is still somewhere on my home office working table, but I had already decided that I would delay my retirement atContinue reading “About retirement, a famous song and my next planned activities”

Those of you that are also followers or contacts of my LinkedIn profile, maybe know already that I recently signed an agreement with a new customer to complete my freelance activities portfolio. It’s the European company PlaySafety Systems from Croatia that has developed a great Maintenance Management System specifically focused to safety management, maintenance andContinue reading “Maximizing Efficiency of Playground, fitness, and Sport areas maintenance: The Advantages of a specific CMMS (GMAO) System”

The City of Palmerston backed and funded by the Australian Government and the Northern Territory Government recently opened a first-of-its-kind adventure playground and a multi-level water play-zone, at SWELL that offers the ultimate water and high-ropes fun for the young and young at heart. SWELL means Swimming, Wellness, Events, Leisure and Lifestyle. This is Palmerston’sContinue reading “The Palmerston, state of the art SWELL aquatic facility”

It’s not every week that you have the opportunity to complete and hand over a safety flooring project of over 5.000m2.This Project recently completed by Polysoft in a space in Kuwait called Messilah Beach has two large playgrounds, two Waterplay and splash areas, a huge pool deck, plus three separate fitness areas and one adventureContinue reading “An impressive safety surfacing Polysoft project in Kuwait”

It seems incredible how fast this year 2023 has passed, we are in the last couple of days and it seems like a good time to share the blog statistics of visits and views, with you, my appreciated readers. For the first time from the start of this blog I used AI from ChatGPT toContinue reading “Beyond Numbers: A Gratitude-filled Recap of 2023. Insights from Our 2023 Blogging Journey”

I am very happy to announce that I have signed an agreement with the Spanish company KRYPTON CHEMICAL, as Safety Surfacing Consultant for the line of Polyurethane binders used at wetpour (PIP) rubber flooring and decorative stone pavement applications usually sold under the brand name RAYSTON. For the last five years, as a freelance, IContinue reading “My next professional project now disclosed”

A few months ago I was asked by one of my readers about why I did never talk about a good system based on tiles that they are installing as safety flooring on water and splash parks with successful references. I explained him that the main reason is that my blog has been usually moreContinue reading “Interlocking Tiles and my plans for future professional activities”

As flooring specialists, Polysoft sometimes is requested to make special custom colours for certain customers and projects in order to get the right harmonisation with surrounding spaces imagined and designed by the architects. This was the case on this iconic site in Riyadh that is a deck fountain as part of Lower Wadi Sports Park.Continue reading “Completed one of Polysoft latest iconic sites in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)”

When a safety surfacing material or system is in contact with water in public spaces as swimming pools, waterparks, or splash parks it is essential to assess that there are no inorganic chemicals that may leach out from the product to the water over the product life, creating potential health problems. Picture from Drew HaysContinue reading “Health testing of materials for safety surfacing applications”

PolySoft completed a few years ago the Waha Bahrain, one of the biggest splash pads. The Bahraini climate begs opportunities for kids to play with water and Premier Q, long-time partner of PolySoft in developing splash pads in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, has made water play available to all families living in or visiting theContinue reading “Waha Splashclub’s water wonderland.”

PolySoft has partnered with a leading Australian swimming pool paint company, to bring to the market a range of high-quality pool paint colours that are complementary to PolySoft Surfacing portfolio. The Byron Pool Paint Range offers a Premium Finish for Pools and other Splash Installations and is suited to application over both old and newContinue reading “Paint to improve a swimming pool surfacing.”

Approximately in 2013, Kompan launched its own brand and system of wetpour materials, after several years using all kind of solutions from different manufacturers. To launch Flexotop, Kompan selected the best quality materials available on the world market. As a manufacturer of children’s play, multi-sport areas and outdoor exercise equipment and considered to be ofContinue reading “Kompan Flexotop Surface Academy. Near a decade training to install wetpour rubber safety surfacing”

In the world of fashion, the most used colours tend to change every season or year, without anyone knowing very well the criteria on what this preference or fashion wave is based. Organizations such as PANTONE or RAL also used to publish the most fashionable colour for each season. There is an interesting phenomenon inContinue reading “The colours on the flooring and fashion.”

A couple of years ago I posted an article in this blog about safety in playgrounds. You can find it here: https://francescruz.blog/2021/03/01/safety-in-playgrounds One of my dear readers from Pennsylvania sent me a few days ago an email with some interesting insights about Concussions in infants and toddlers that are a bit scary. Not only isContinue reading “Again, about Safety in Playgrounds, Splash parks and Waterparks.”

Fall attenuation, slip resistance on wet and dry, cool temperature on barefoot, colour stability, lifespan and an easy to clean surface are the main required specifications when designing the flooring for a playground or a waterpark, but sometimes and in certain applications aesthetic appeal has been the main criteria for selecting a Polysoft system inContinue reading “When you look mainly for an aesthetic result”

The slip resistance of a flooring is an essential property for its safety and comfort of use. Dry slip resistance is not an indicator of wet slip resistance — in fact they often vary inversely — so valid wet slip resistance testing of floors is needed. In applications around water, such as splash, water parksContinue reading “Measuring slip resistance of a flooring system on dry and wet. The Polysoft choice and results”

I often visit playground projects that were completed by KOMPAN A/S many years ago and the quality of the playground equipment is so extraordinary that it still looks great several decades later. However, for the safety flooring, only the projects that were installed with the best quality products and by good, experienced installers continue toContinue reading “The lifespan of safety flooring systems and how Polysoft test it”

As flooring specialists, Polysoft sometimes is requested to make special custom colours for certain customers and projects in order to get the right harmonisation with surrounding spaces that have been imagined by the architects or landscape designers. This has been the case at some of the iconic sites in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that IContinue reading “Completed several Polysoft iconic sites in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Bahrain”

As I explained at some of my previous posts in this blog, to obtain a beautiful visual finish, usually, the wetpour surfacing installer spends most of his working time, on his knees, laying and smoothing the top layer with a hand trowel. It is hard work and after a few hours doing it you canContinue reading “Some useful wetpour flooring tools you can get from Polysoft.”