Playground Flooring

Playground flooring design and how to choose the floor?

Safety Flooring for Playgrounds

You need to choose a flexible material to absorb the impact on the floor for playgrounds. Here are suitable materials for playground floors.

In the old times’ playgrounds were on solid ground or sand or wooden mulch.

Now we start to use rubber flooring which is more durable and more effective on impact.

Rubber Floor Tiles for Playgrounds Flooring

Rubber floor tiles for playgrounds are indicated with Critical Fall Height, these values are tested regarding EN 1177:2008 standards, this is a value in cms, like 120 cms, this means you can use this tile with playground equipment with the maximum height 120 cms.

Artificial Gras for Playgrounds

If you want to design a playground with artificial grass than you need to use an antishock underlayer to reach the critical fall height.