Playground & Park Cleaning Cardiff

Wetpour is not paving

Wetpour and rubber mulch surfaces are bound rubber crumb, and they are designed to absorb impact. High pressure tears the binder, lifts the crumb and leaves loose patches, and once the surface is open it holds water and grows moss faster than before. It also affects the critical fall height the surface was installed to provide, which is the entire reason it is there.

So wetpour is a low pressure job with the right cleaner and a soft rotary head, working across the surface rather than into it, and the moss and algae are treated so they do not come straight back.

Moss on a play surface is a safety issue

Green growth on wetpour, on rubber tiles and on the tarmac paths around a play area is slippery when wet, and play areas are used in all weather by people who are not watching their footing. That is usually the real reason a school or a council calls us, and it changes the priority: treat the growth properly rather than wash off the visible layer.

What we clean in a play area

• Wetpour, rubber mulch and rubber safety tiles.
• Play equipment, frames, slides and climbing units.
• Artificial grass and its infill.
• Paths, gates, fencing and seating.
• Skate parks, MUGAs and ball courts.

Products and re-opening

Everything we use in a play area is chosen so that the surface is safe for children once it is dry and rinsed, and we will tell you the re-opening time before we start rather than leaving you to guess. Where a site is used by a school we work in holidays or outside hours as a matter of course.

In the holidays, or before the gates open

For a school the obvious window is the holidays, and for a public park it is early morning before the site fills up. Either way the area is closed off while we work and handed back only once it is dry, because a wet play surface is exactly the hazard we are there to remove.

Rubber crumb, and keeping it out of the drains

Cleaning wetpour and rubber mulch releases loose crumb, and that must not end up in the surface water drainage where it becomes a pollutant and a blockage. We filter and collect it rather than washing it towards a gully, which is also why we work at low pressure: less crumb comes free in the first place.

Child safe products and re-opening times

Everything used in a play area is chosen so the surface is safe once rinsed and dry, and we tell you the re-opening time before we start rather than leaving you to judge it. For school sites we can supply DBS status for the operatives attending, along with RAMS and insurance.