On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 4:28:27 PM UTC+1, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:50:56 +0200, MysticalGandy
wrote:


Hi all, we have a trampoline in our garden for the kids (although after
a few beers an a BBQ I have been known to use it).

The other day our 10 year old fell out of it where the join in the
netting is... She whacked her head and ended up with concussion.. I
started looking on line for an alternative and came across "sunken
trampolines".

My question is.. has anybody got one in their garden for their kids? and
what do they think to them? They do look a lot better..

These are the ones I've seen 'Sunken Trampoline Supplier - Sunken
Trampoline Installer' (http://www.sunkentrampoline.com)

ta

andy

Not so good when the hole fills with water...

We sank ours. Well, it was given to us by a friend and the netting was all borken so it seemed the easiest option. We're on very sandy soil so there is no drainage problem, in fact the bottom of the pit is in the pure sandy layer of the old Mersey flood plain. We dug it roughtly conical, with holes for the trampoline legs to go in and buried the legs, so there's only a deep hole under the middle. Being conical, the edges don't fall in despite the pit being unlined. It's dug deep enough that when an adult bounces, they don't quite touch the ground underneath. We piled some of the spoil in a ring around it and turfed over, so it's not actually quite at ground level.