Buyers guide for Wooden Climbing Frames and Playcentres

If you are thinking about buying a wooden climbing frame, you could find this guide useful.Wooden Play equipment offers flexibility, strength and longevity. Unlike plastic or metal, wood ages and weathers without losing its structural integrity. Natural wood tones with the garden rather than clashing with it, and ages much more sympathetically than steel or aluminium.While the benefits of wooden play equipment come at a slightly premium price, it is good value in the long term. Wooden Playcentres use far less energy in their construction than steel, aluminium or plastic, and as they last longer, fewer are needed.Is wood as strong as steel, aluminium or plastic?Wood is stronger. We have yet to come across a metal or plastic climbing frame as sturdy and strong as our range of wooden play equipment. This means that the whole family can play without breaking or bending it.Round or square section timber?The choice here is an aesthetic one, there is no technical reason to choose one or the other apart from the amount of splitting that will occur.As a natural product, timber will shrink in the heat and expand in the wet causing some cracking and splitting. This comes and goes as the weather changes and is taken into account when designing the climbing frame and specifying the thickness of wood. It will not affect the structural integrity.Round log, which is cut from the heartwood of the tree, is more susceptible to splitting than square section timber. This is part of the appeal of the rustic appearance of the round log, so don

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