10 Things you might not know about wet pour! From Soft Play Safety Surfaces

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 both safe and durable. This makes it suitable for it to be laid around complex playground equipment and used for all sports surfaces including football surfaces and golf walkways. This surface is so versatile it can be used in many different areas including multi use games arenas, Soft Play 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…might you not know about wet pour?

1. Wet pour has a long life spam, which could help save money further down the line; all Soft Play Safety Surfaces come with a five-year guarantee on coloured rubber and three years on black.
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 safety surface.
5. Some coloured rubbers are more sensitive to ultra violet degradation than others, please ask Soft Play Surfaces about this on 0161 973 0010.
6. Removal of pollution or leaves should be the only necessary maintenance annually, by power washing but this has to be done in the right way, so it does not damage the safety surface. Soft Play Surfaces can offer a maintenance service see out website for more at www.softplaysurfaces.com
7. VIRGIN EPDM – is a term used to emphasise that the granules are not recycled SBR.
8. EPDM – stands for Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer, which is synthetically manufactured rubber, formed in sheets and then cut into granules of varying sizes.
9. SBR - Styrene-butadiene rubber, which is 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 forms the foundation.