Wetpour graphics can be education and fun!

Not only is it a safety surface but also a way to learn and play and stay safe!

Installing wet pour graphics into your safety surfaces designs can help create an educational element for children's playgrounds and play areas. Simple numbers, alphabets, or even words within a themed area can really stimulate a child's thought process during activity at play times!

Is it important to help learning at an early age, whilst capturing the child's imagination and keeping an emphasis on fun, this can often enhances the experience and ensuring vital educational advances in a child's development.

Fun graphics like mock wet pour road lay-outs, whilst incorporating road signs can provide subtle educational tools, which prove invaluable later on in life. You have the freedom to be as inventive as you want in order to create a project that will inspire the imagination of its users, see our gallery section for ideas and all our bespoke and colour wetpour safety surfaces graphics.

Any safety surfaces project you have in mind, we can offer a FREE no obligation quote, see some of our wet pour graphics packages here www.spongysurfaces.com, we offer a bespoke service, for any company logos you would like to recreate within the surface.

Call now for a Spongy Safety Surfaces brochure on 0161 973 0010 or email us at mail@spongysurfaces.com.

Sports Surfaces - wetpour

A Wet pour rubber surface is perfect solution for sporting surface applications, suitable for different multi-sports surfaces, that include football pitches, basketball, tennis, netball volleyball, hockey, running and cycling tracks.

We can supply and install a variety of wetpour sports surfaces relevant to each given sport that are resilient, durable and multi-functional for both indoor and outdoor sports. This wet pour surface is a popular alternative to astroturf as it has many benefits and safety aspects, please see below:

Benefits of using wet pour for sports surfaces:

• Continuous and strong structure
• Slip-resistant & porous for a sports surface
• Complies with all safety surfaces regulations
• Hygienic and virtually maintenance free
• Available in a large range of colours, click here to see our colour chart
• Can be used for both indoor and outdoor sports areas
• Can be used for running and cycling tracks
• Can be laid around complex sports equipment
• Educational and fun elements can be added for an infant sports surfaces
• Wet pour sports lines and designs are permanent, so once laid the sports
surfaces are there to stay!

See our sports surfaces projects page, it tells you all about the project from start to finish.

Alternatively see our website for other products and services at www.spongysurfaces.com
T: 0161 973 0010

10 Reasons to install artificial safety grass with Spongy Safety Surfaces

• It is approved by Local Authorities.
• Synthetic safety grass can be applied to any surface.
• Very little maintenance.
• Have a mud-free lawn with green all year round.
• Tough, durable and weather proof.
• Drains quickly.
• Can be used both outdoors and indoors safety surfaces.
• Child and pet safe surface.
• Luxury of grass without all the hassle...
• Great appearance!

Artificial safety grass can be a perfect solution for a safety surface as it is maintenance free and can transform your playground or play area into large green lawn, keeping your playground play area mud-free all year round.

It can be applied to any surface and can also be installed for play equipment, depending on the height of the play equipment; this is why it can be an ideal solution for nurseries and schools as an alternative to natural grass as natural grass is not always practical.

It is local authority approved, durable, tough and weather proof, so general ball sports and football can be played on artificial safety grass making it another sports surface option, with a great appearance!

As it is an artificial product it doesn't have to be used outdoors it can be used indoors to give an outdoor theme. It can be used for many other areas including, exhibitions, patios, around swimming pools, around water features, studios for photo shots or filming, dog runs, apartment complexes, decking cover and all corporate events.

If you are looking for a safety surface solution and don't have time to mo your lawn or just need to brighten up the decking area in your garden, artificial safety grass can be installed and yes...you can have all luxury of grass without all the hassle...

If you are interested in safety artificial grass please call us on 0161 973 0010 or email us at: mail@spongysurfaces.com
Alternatively see our website for all other safety surface solutions here…www.spongysurfaces.com

Wetpour repair kits from as little as £55.00 per repair kit!

The most effective way to repair small areas is to get a wetpour repair kit from as little as £55.00 per repair kit.

Each wet pour repair kit can repairs up to an area of 1m2 which includes binder and gloves and full instructions. They are available in a full range of colours, yellow, red, blue, black and green.

If you are interested in a Spongy Surfaces wet pour kit or if you would prefer onsite wetpour repairs which we can also provide, please call on 0161 973 0010, email us at: mail@spongysurfaces.com or alternativity see our website at www.spongysurfaces.com

Winter special wetpour safety surfaces offer!!!

Save money with our winter special offer - with the credit crunch well under way, we are giving you the chance to take advantage of our special winter offer, from the dates October 31st 2008 to December 31st 2008, we have wetpour hopscotches to give away, all you have to do is place an order between the dates above for a wetpour surface and receive a free hopscotch. Tel: 0161 973 0010 or see our website for details at www.spongysurfaces.com

Terms and conditions apply - All orders must be made between the offer dates of 1st October – December 31st 2008. Colours of hopscotches may vary depending on availability. All orders must be over the £1,500.

Things you didn’t know about wet pour…

Wet pour rubber is a porous system that is mixed on site and poured into place to form a continuous bound together rubber surface that is safe and durable. This makes it suitable for it to be laid around complex play equipment, in fact this wet pour system is so versatile it can be used in many different areas including:

• Playground safety surfaces
• Leisure or children's indoor climbing centres
• Leisure and sports surfaces
• Swimming pool surrounds
• Spa & hot tubs
• Golfwalk ways
• Domestic pathways and patios
• Multi-use games arena

Spongy Safety Surfaces recently completed a big job were they laid wet pour rubber for this use, click here to find out how it went on.

So what facts…did you not know about wet pour…

1. Wet pour has a long life spam, saving money down the line; all Spongy Safety Surfaces come with a five-year guarantee.
2. Wet pour is continuous, keeping it free of seams or joints.
3. Wet pour systems cure rapidly, after mixing; this is why we have to mix system on-site near the play area.
4. CFH stands for Critical Fall Height this is the maximum height of fall from the play equipment onto the ground or impact absorbing wet pour surface.
5. Some coloured rubbers are more sensitive to ultra violet degradation than others, so please ask Spongy Surfaces about this on 0161 973 0010.
6. Removal of pollution or leaves should be the only maintenance necessary annually and this can be effected by power washing or the application of a washing detergent, so it has to be done right so not to effect the surface. Spongy Surfaces can offer a maintenance service see out website for more…www.spongysurfaces.com
7. EPDM – stands for Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer, which is synthetically manufactured rubber, formed in sheets and then cut into granules of varying sizes.
8. VIRGIN EPDM – is a term used to emphasise that the granules are not recycled SBR.
9. SBR - Styrene-butadiene rubber, which are former tyres is environmentally friendly, as it is recycling, rubber from tyres and re-using them for black base in the surface.
10. Wet pour can be laid on almost any surface but if no hard base exists then excavation to reduce levels is required and a minimum 150mm depth of MOT type 1 stone is be provided as a foundation.

More about wet pour and safety surfaces here...

Safety must come first….but keep the element of play in playground…

How to make a playground safe.

Safety is the biggest issue that should concern any playground safety surface installer, ok so if it looks aesthetically beautiful this can add value to the play project, but safety and fun should be top of the list….

Did you know…

• A playground can be made safer by reducing the maximum fall height of equipment an example of this would be a tall slide.

• Better design of play equipment and were it is placed can increase safety.

• A wet pour safety surface can be installed in a variety of thicknesses according to the max free fall height.

• Wet pour can be laid around complex playground equipment.

• A wet pour safety surface overall depth is dependant on the playground equipment, as it is the critical fall height that dictates the final depth.

• A fun safe playground can help the promotion of play that can improve children’s health and well-being.

Spongy Surfaces can provide all kinds of safety surfaces including wet pour safety surfaces, safety grass mats and artificial grass mats, see our website for details..www.spongysurfaces.com


More than 38,000 children are injured seriously enough on UK playgrounds each year to have to go to hospital. RoSPA carries out hundreds of playground inspections annually, but believes there is a growing need for local authorities and landowners to be more aware of safety issues at other places where children play, but which are not necessarily authorised playgrounds.

“Play should be about children having fun and learning to manage risk through adventurous activity. This is an essential part of child development and important to the future health of the nation.”

RoSPA

Ten benefits of playground markings…

Want to brighten up a dull playground?

Playtime should be all about enjoyment with an educational element, children learn more when they are having the fun! Playtime can also help with developing children to get along with others, express their creative side and help to develop their physical dexterity.

Spongy Surfaces not only provide safety surfaces but can also supply and install playground markings. 'Thermoplastic Playground Markings' are a perfect way to brighten up a dull tarmac surface not only can it be educational but also very colorful with lots of design to choose from you will be spoilt for choice of what graphical element to add.

Here are ten reasons - why your boring tarmac surface could benefit the children at your school…

1. Free of lead and chromates keeping them non-toxic.
2. Non-slip and self-cleaning.
3. Last up to 10 times longer than paint.
4. Available in over 100 different colours.
5. Suitable for creating different sports surfaces, including tennis, football, basketball, netball hockey and volleyball.
6. You can enhance your company/school logo by adding it to your playground.
7. It can be education for all ages and abilities, by adding letters, numbers, and learning aids even puzzles.
8. It can help to keep children fit by helping them to participate in playground games and fun to increase learning and social skills.
9. The design can bespoke have any graphic you choose, design something yourself!
10. Help increase road safety awareness with STOP! LOOK! and LISTEN! signs.

If is not playground markings you are looking for but playground safety surfaces Spongy Surfaces can also provide this as a service. Wetpour rubber is a porous safety surface that can be applied to most surfaces including tarmac and grass. See our website for details at: www.spongysurfaces.com or email us at mail@spongysurface.com Alternately ring us on 0161 973 0010.