Cohousing-L Mailing List: Rubber Mulch {Was Pea gravel "pit" around playstructure]

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

Some of the mulch sold is very small -- 5/8 of an inch. I would 
recommend larger chips, more like pieces of bark. Ours is 3-4 times 
that size. It is less likely to be tracked about in shoe treads or to 
float away in the rain. Ours, as I mentioned before, is Treadspread -- 
playground quality.

If you have a large area, you can find suppliers for school playgrounds 
who will bring in a truck and back right up to your space and dump it. 
Very easy to spread from there.  We had a whole bunch of bags delivered 
on palettes, formed a chain to pass the bags to the tot lot, and spread 
each bag of stuff. It only took an hour or so. Preparation is digging 
down 4 inches (or 12 for big kid stuff) and putting out weed cloth.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org