Many of our customers are individuals who have been delegated the task of creating or updating a space with school playground equipment but do not know where to begin. But we are here to help you every step of the way!

Our comprehensive product range takes in traditional outdoor play equipment – either manufactured out of traditional timber or more frequently these days from recycled plastic play equipment as it has numerous benefits over other materials – outdoor classrooms, eco classrooms, outdoor shelters and canopies, school classroom buildings and nature play areas. We don’t particularly like selling off a “catalogue page” with a pre-determined packaged product as a lot of the work we undertake is on a bespoke basis where we work with the school and the children on designing unique and creative play areas based on their and our own ideas and concepts. We like to be original you see!

For example, we are currently researching the idea of having a Food Education Classroom Building – where children can grow their own food on site, prepare it, cook it themselves and then either sell it on or consume themselves. This is a far better way of teaching children about food education, where it comes from, how to eat food which is good for you etc rather than downloading some resource which simply tells them.

School playground equipment is also an area where we can potentially help with funding and we have worked very successfully in the past with both schools and their PTAs on how to raise the necessary funds to pay for our equipment. This includes grant funding, crowdfunding, hosting novel events, corporate sponsorship and other revenue generating activities.

The Benefits to Schools of Recycled Plastic Playground Products

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We consistently hear from schools that one of the most important aspects to consider when buying equipment for the playground – be that outdoor play equipment or table and bench seating – is on-going maintenance. How long is it really going to last? What do we have to do each year to maintain it? Will you do this or does our site manager have to do it? These are all questions we regularly get asked every single week.

So this is the great thing about using recycled plastic as an alternative material to traditional timber. Quite simply – it needs little or none on-going maintenance as it doesn’t rot, splinter or degrade over time. Of course, it has other attractive properties such as it is less flammable than wood, is water, frost and damp resistant and is very eco friendly as it is made out of recycled plastic bottles.

This is why we are looking to manufacture more and more of our products in this material! Plus your caretaker or site manager can rest easy in the knowledge that he or she will not have to spend their waking hours maintaining it.

For further information, please contact Simon Fearnehough on 01865 858982 or email: simon@hideouthouse.com or please visit

recycled plastic play equipment

 

Recycled Plastic Playground Equipment

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On my very many travels round schools, I always see picnic benches or tables which are made out of a re-cycled plastic composite material which does actually look like traditional timber, but isn’t. When I ask teachers why they bought these benches, the response is pretty much unanimous – although they are bit more expensive, the benefits far outweigh the extra cost. They last a lot longer, they don’t rot, crack or discolour, they are eco-friendly but most important of all perhaps, they require little or no ongoing maintenance. Which keeps the site manager or caretaker very happy as it just means another job he doesn’t have to worry about.

So I got to thinking that if these benefits of using recycled plastic mean so much to a school, why can’t you make other products out of this material for the playground? And the most obvious contender of course is adventure or trim trail play equipment especially if you develop these products along the sport and PE fitness lines as those nice and generous people in the Dept for Education are giving schools money for this very reason.

My eureka moment therefore came in the form of developing a modular, multi-faceted fitness centre which is manufactured entirely out of re-cycled plastic so that it will last forever, the children won’t get splinters, we’ve done our bit in help saving the planet (this material is 100% recycled)  and the school site managers of this country can now relax safe in the knowledge that it will require hardly any ongoing maintenance. Win win I would say. Oh and the children will be physically challenged which will help them to be fit and healthy.

For further information, please contact Simon Fearnehough on 01865 858982 or email simon@hideouthouse.com

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Fitness Station

Fitness Station