For many city dwellers, the cottage is a favorite vacation spot. When a family has children, then you need to come up with activities for them in nature. Great for giving a children's slide. It can be playgrounds, sports complexes, swings. Their features and choices are described in the article.
Safety standards
When deciding to purchase children's slides and swings for giving, you need to weigh a lot of nuances. It is important to determine the location of the structure. It is necessary to choose the type of slide, because they are made of different materials and in various design solutions.
An equally important point is familiarity with the safety requirements for children's slides for summer cottages. You will need to test the purchased game complex. The main safety rules include:
- The stability of the structure, so it is qualitatively fixed on the base.
- Reliability of the product so that it can withstand increased loads.
- Safety of the gutter descent (the surface should be flat, without nicks, nails, sharp edges).
- The presence of a softening mat in the area of touchdown. It can be a natural material, for example, grass lawn.
- The presence on the stairs of a comfortable railing for the growth of the child, wide low steps. The design does not have to be very cool.
- If a children's slide for a summer residence is made independently, then it is necessary to accurately determine the angle of inclination of the gutter for descent.
Where to place?
It is important to determine where the children's complex will be located for giving with a slide. To do this, do not forget about the safety of the child. There are several location recommendations:
- Products must be located so that the site of their location is visible from all sides. This is necessary to control the games of the child.
- Slides are usually included in a game or sports complex with different swings, horizontal bars, stairs, so you should place them so that they do not overlap with the places where the child moves around the site.
- If the children's slide is the only object, then you need to place it on a certain hill, in a lighted and ventilated place, near the garden.
- It is undesirable to install the complex near household facilities: sheds, garage, toilet. These places are considered dangerous for the baby.
The choice
When buying a game complex with a children's slide for a summer residence, you need to pay attention to the following nuances:
- The height of the structure should be appropriate for the age and height of the child. If children are of different ages, then you should choose such a product model, where there are several descents that differ in coolness and height.
- By design, a railing should be created that reaches the baby’s chest.
- It is important that all structural parts have smooth edges.
- Material and paint are taken into account, where there should be no toxic components. Although the design is on the street, toxins can penetrate the baby's body through close contact with parts.
Types of fixtures
Children's slides are different in the following ways:
- Isolation (there are separate, included in the sports complex).
- Material: plastic, inflatable, metal, wooden.
- Height: high and low.
- Season: winter and all season.
The cost of structures depends on their complexity. More expensive are complexes with a swing. Depending on the materials, the products have their pros and cons.
Metal
The advantages of these attractions include a long service life, reliability, stability. The main thing is that the correct installation is performed. But to execute it yourself is difficult, but expensive to purchase.
In winter, the metal is very cooled and there is a risk of the child “sticking” to the handrails at sub-zero temperatures. In the hot period, with such material, you can get a burn during the descent along the hot cloth. Corrosion of metal parts should be taken into account, which requires spending on painting.
Plastic
Most plastic slides have bright colors, and they are also safe. The material allows you to make a descent of any shape: screw, rotary, in the form of a pipe. Plastic is not able to heat up in the sun and freeze in the cold. Such an attraction will be comfortable.
But there are drawbacks to these designs. They are quite expensive, but the price of all manufacturers is different. The cost is affected by the height and construction of the slide, the quality of the plastic, and the durability of the material. By cons include the operational life of plastic slides. But they do not need complicated care.
Wooden
Wood is considered an environmentally friendly material. Such products are sensitive to changes in temperature, radiation from the sun, to moisture. Due to precipitation, they rot, parts begin to deform. Due to solar radiation, overdrying of the wood and its cracking are observed. This adversely affects the quality of riding.
Wood does not freeze in frosty weather and does not overheat in the heat. But she needs constant care, which includes treatment with waterproofing impregnations, painting.
Inflatable
Recently, such complexes are one of the most popular. Children's inflatable slides for summer cottages have soft edges, making them absolutely safe. You can purchase sports inflatable slides with a pool.
These designs are more suitable for hot days. Skating on this hill ends in the pool, so you can refresh yourself and cheer up. To slide along the slope of the hill, cooling let water. Such a vacation will be enjoyable.
The advantage of this complex is safety, but with the right mount. The inflatable product is bright and interesting, it can be folded for the cold time, saving until the next season. This increases the shelf life of the complex.
Do it yourself
If you wish, you can make a slide for your own summer. For this, wood or metal is suitable. You can create the complex yourself or buy some parts. What will be the attraction depends on the imagination. But it should be borne in mind that children are growing rapidly, and that the complex is useful for a long time, you should arrange different swings, a sports corner.
For self-manufacturing, the following rules should be considered:
- You need to choose high-quality material. For the base, a beam is usually used. It is reliable, strong, durable. The upper platform is made of thick, durable boards. Materials must be impregnated with protective equipment.
- It is especially difficult to make a descent. The tree is not perfectly smooth and sliding, so for comfortable sliding you need to perform cleaning and grinding.
- You can purchase a polished descent.
- Outside the caps of nails and bolts should not be visible.
- If a metal complex is to be built, a reliable foundation is required. It can be simple filler without formwork or columnar.
- On the one hand, a ladder is welded to 2 pipes for climbing the hill, and on the other, a descent.
- If you do the descent with your own hands, then you need to do this from a solid sheet of metal.
- At the end of the assembly, the welding sections are cleaned and ground.
If the product is purchased, it remains to correctly install it, fix it. Only then will it be safe for riding.