Play area in private garden

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Im looking for advice on how to create a play area surface at the end of the garden this weekend.

I want to have a permanent surface on the ground (ie no grass to cut) that is safe and functional and under €300ish. I know a house that has 804 but I find this messy and also weeds are poking there heads up.

Has any one any recommendation or help. Thanks.
 
Thanks Demoivre, great read.

Had seen them tiles in B&Q and Homebase but very expensive. That why I said €300 is really the budget. Want to do large enough area with playhouse, swing, slide, baby swing/slide etc, will look into that cow mat thing.

Have a large piece of indoor children design lino that is in the playroom (just painted it this week as converting it to spare bedroom and moving practically all kids toys out to playhouse). Wonder would that indoor lino survive outside. dont mind if the design fades etc.
 
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25mm playground tile €30.00
45mm playground tile €48.00
70mm playground tile €70.00

What surface area are we talking about?

I wonder if people sell that rubber mulch stuff, its much cheaper?
 
Surface is at the moment grass but want to save the moving of toys everytime the grass is cut, also my eldest daughter is getting bravier and the swing needs to be concreted in.

Have a friend who has bark but it attracts slugs and also the kids pull it over the lawn in there shoes/clothes.

Have left things to the last minute and Easter hols nearly over and husband going to make the playhouse on Saturday. Panic stations.......
 
Just following up on this, Husband put down black liner, two deckboards high around the edge nailed to little boards into the ground and filled in with kid sized bark from B&Q. Put a paved area at the enterance so kids can shake off any bark stuck to them but found this isnt needed. Also put in a little gravel area for a little kids sized bench.

Fantastic as reduced the requests for driving to public playground.
 
Can I ask Sandals how big an area it is and how much it cost? We want to do the same for the same reasons (no grass to be mowed in the area). Someone mentioned slugs being attracted to bark - have you noticed?
 
ana14 sent u a pm, €120, no slugs at all, finding it fantastic, esp with todays weather......beautiful.
 
Not sure about tiles and stuff but you can put ground cover (mypex) underneath what ever surface you decide upon. This stuff prevents weeds and grass from growing but still lets rainwater soak through. I have it in all our flowerbeds. Its great stuff in my opinion. Any garden centre will stock it.
 
We used just plain black plastic sheet that my dad had (not silage wrap or the like) as it was free and just pin pricked holes in it to let out the rainwater.
 
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