In my past articles I’ve been showing different applications for rubber flooring. I will be talking today about another aplication of it on tracks for golf courses. I started learning and playing golf and Pitch & Putt, about 20 years ago and I can tell you at some golf tracks I have collected in myContinue reading “Rubber flooring for Golf Course tracks”
Category Archives: wetpour rubber
About Critical Fall Height on playground safety surfacing
Frequently, the clients ask us for the certificate of critical fall height and thickness of safety surfacing for playgrounds made on samples with our materials. As I have repeated it many times to different clients, I have thought that I better explain here some relevant information about this issue. In the future to those whoContinue reading “About Critical Fall Height on playground safety surfacing”
Alternatives of top layer materials for wet pour flooring
In one of my previous articles on this blog, I discussed the most common materials currently used as granules for the top wearing layer of rubber wet pour flooring in playgrounds, fitness areas, water parks, pool decks, multipurpose areas and leisure applications. These were the ones I have used more frequently on real projects. AlthoughContinue reading “Alternatives of top layer materials for wet pour flooring”
Tires or not Tires, that is the question
Sorry in advance for adapting the most famous expression at Hamlet tragedy. It was the only way I found to start a maybe long post that is around an old discussion I have been hearing and reading during the last close to 20 years. Rubber recycled from tires has been used in playground surfacing andContinue reading “Tires or not Tires, that is the question”
Cracks in the top layer of a rubber wet pour (pour-in-place) playground flooring
Why do you get cracks on pour-in-place rubber flooring?
How to design the wet pour safety flooring of a playground to fit the available budget
Deisgn wetpour rubber surfacing for a budget
Why to use smoothing agents on rubber wetpour surfacing
What I’ve seen at installer’s job sites Now that we must be confined at home due to this COVID-19 pandemia, I really miss a lot visiting the job sites of my rubber surfacing installer’s projects. To be honest, when I was very often visiting playground sites I was not always happy and one of theContinue reading “Why to use smoothing agents on rubber wetpour surfacing”
Recommendations for flooring solutions using EPDM recycled top layers
Recommendations for flooring solutions using EPDM recycled top layers
Comparing loose fill and wetpour rubber surfacing
One of the quite common impact absorbing surfaces in playgrounds is that using natural loose fill materials such as sand, gravel, bark, woodchips or engineered wood fibres. This type of surfacing provides a natural appearance, has an interesting recreational value, a low initial installation cost and children loves it, especially the little ones. However, theContinue reading “Comparing loose fill and wetpour rubber surfacing”
What we will do here?
I will write about materials, installation procedures, techniques, projects, surfacing alternatives and whatever other issues related to the flooring for playgrounds and leisure applications. Apologies for my mistakes. English is not my first language. I will do my best to fix the bugs as soon as I am aware of them. You can subscribe toContinue reading “What we will do here?”
Why a new blog?
I did my first one near 10 years ago and was posting regularly once per week for about a couple of months. Then I started a new responsibility and I had no more available time for writing, so I just stopped to post. The blog is still there, is in Spanish and it was mainlyContinue reading “Why a new blog?”
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