Things to know
The following pages give information on our products’ safety, maintenance and guarantees.
Please adhere to the following information!
An element’s required space is made up of the surface area and the specified safety zone, to the fall zone. The fall zones’ intersection/interlocking of several elements is approved on lots of equipment, it should however be omitted with playing equipment such as swings, merry-go-rounds etc (see DIN EN 1176). The fall zone is a painted surface, marked in grey and earmarks the playing area.
Our catalogue contains our standard product range. Furthermore, it is possible, within TÜV critieria, for individual products to meet your requirements. We differentiate here between special designs which are finished as required and special designs which are only available to a limited extent. The latter is subject to external conditions (TÜV, calculations, accessories such as slides or climbing nets). If we take on an order for such a special design, the same prudence is observed as with standard equipment. Since we strive to constantly improve our products, we reserve the right to constructive changes and appropriate price adjustments. In cases where the illustrated diagram deviates, the technical design is standard.
The term “platform” is the upper playing and standing area. Of course, if desired, several platforms can be built into individual play equipment. “Platform height (PH) is the height between the standing area and ground level.
We are happy to assist you with any individual playground planning. In order to implement your technical creativity, we recommend that you create a rough scale map of the available area. Copy the layout of your chosen play equipment and design it to your liking.
Our sales staff are, of course, available on-site for personal consultation.
Things you should know!
Wood is a natural material which is subject to many external influences. From the point of felling, the wood is subject to constant fluctuations regarding its material characteristics. The main problem lies with moisture fluctuations, which affect the wood with regards to volume expansion. With moisture absorption, the wood expands, a decrease in moisture and it contracts. These changes in volume take place simultaneously and three-dimensionally, but with varying intensity. The wood works in the direction of the tree rings mostly with about 10% and about 5% from the core outwards. The length change, in fibre direction, is about 2%.
How do dry cracks develop? The wood moisture strives constantly to balance the environment’ dampness. If the humidity level of the environment is low, the wood moisture sinks until an equilibrium is reached. The wood tries to adjust the loss of space by contracting. The contracting of wood runs in the length slightly, twice in the thickness and four-fold in the tangential diameter. Due to these differences in the degree of shrinkage, the wood will produce different zonal tenseness. Cracking occurs when the excessive moisture loss exceeds these tensions of material strength.
Temperature fluctuations and drying influences cause crack formations, form variances and dimension variances respectively, thereby hardly affecting the functional features and can therefore be no reason for complaint.