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Welcome to Soft Surfaces Ltd, home of Wet-pour Impact Absorbing Safety Surfacing

Soft Surfaces Ltd was established in 1997 and we have over the last decade progressed to become one of the leading playground surfacing installers of wet-pour, resin bound rubber crumb, impact absorbing safety surfaces in the UK.

Soft Surfaces are committed to offering ‘Best Value’ through our commitment and technical excellence. Soft Surfaces have a wealth of in-house expertise and our friendly, long-serving, knowledgeable staff, are available to assist you with all your playground and impact absorbing surface requirements.

We are Playground Construction Specialists and our ‘core’ business activity is the installation of wet-pour in-situ safety surfaces, we can assist you, with any element of your outside play area requirements.


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Below are some of the main service and products which we can offer, please ask if what you are looking for is not listed below :-

  • Wet-pour In-situ Rubber Soft Surfacing (Safety Surfacing) – Applications include Playground surfacing; Golf Walkways ; swimming pool surrounds
  • Wet-pour impact absorbing safety surfaces
  • Rubber Spheres
  • Ground Works Preparation / Landscaping / Sensory Garden Areas
  • MUGA and Sports Pitches, including Polymeric & Shockpads (Multi Use Games Areas), full construction
  • Play Equipment – Swings ; Slides ; See-Saw ; Roundabout ; Tower Units ; Springers – We can offer installation and/or Supply & installation as well as the required impact absorbing surface
  • Fencing - Bow top ; timber Lolly pop ; feather-board fencing ; Picket Fencing ; Mesh security Fencing ; Rebound sports fencing ; Goal End Units
  • Seating - Picnic Benches ; Benches, Playground Bins etc
  • Canopies / Gazebos / Shade Sails / Outdoor Classrooms
  • Playground Markings / Games – Thermoplastic / Playground Surfacing
  • Line Marking – Football ; Tennis ; Basketball ; Hockey ; Netball etc
  • Artificial Grass Surfaces / Synthetic Surfaces / Playground Surfaces / Polymeric surfaces / Impact absorbing artificial grass
  • Other Impact absorbing safety surfacing products include: Play Bark ; Play Sand ; Eco-Mulch ; Rubber Tiles ; Wet-pour Soft Surfaces; Grass Mats ; Rubber Mulch ; impact absorbing safety surfacing ; Playground Surfacing ; Soft Pour ; Rubber Tarmac
  • Tarmac / Macadam Surfacing – Tennis Court Surfacing
  • Resin Bound Stone – Around Tree Guards ; pathways


Soft Surfaces have been members of the (API) Association of Play Industries for over a decade, as well as being CHAS accredited (Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme). We are also a Construction Line approved contractor in Wet-pour Safety Surfacing.

 

Below are the main Sports and Safety Surface services and products which we can offer, please ask if what you are looking for is not listed below :

  • 3G, 3rd Generation Artificial Grass Pitches, for use of:- football pitch ; hockey pitch ; rugby pitch ; MUGA's

  • Synthetic Sports Surfacing, for use of:- five-a-side football pitches ; hockey pitches ; basketball pitches ; netball pitches ; cricket wickets and pitches ; tennis courts ; bowling greens ; Pitch & Putt & Crazy Golf ; MUGA's

  • Polymeric Sports Surfaces, for us of:- Netball Pitches ; Basketball pitches ; five-a-side football pitches ; Tennis Courts and Athletics including Long jump run ups ; pitch & putt golf ; MUGA's ; crazy golf courses

  • Macadam Sports Courts, for use of:- Basketball pitches ; Netball pitches ; tennis courts ; five-a side football pitches

  • Natural Turf Sports Pitches, for use of:- Football pitches ; rugby pitches ; cricket wickets and pitches ; hockey pitches ; athletics ; bowling greens ; pitch & putt golf areas ; MUGA's

  • Shockpad Installation which can be installed on both engineered or dynamic sub base, for use below 3G artificial grass surfaces ; sand filled synthetic surfaces ; sand dressed synthetic surfaces ; needle punch synthetic surfaces ; MUGA's

  • Fencing - weldmesh fencing, chainlink fencing, rebound fencing, recessed goal mouths, goal end units, pedestrian guard rails, dug out team benches, metal bow top, multi-sports fencing ; 3m high rebound fencing for MUGA's ; Single leaf gates ; double leaf gates ; kickboards

  • Floodlighting -, Static floodlights ; hinged floodlighting ; LUX illuminations ; professional sports floodlighting for MUGA's

  • Sports Equipment - Freestanding football posts and nets ; fixed football goals ; freestanding tennis nets ; fixed tennis nets ; basketball goal ends ; Netball posts for use with Multi Use Games Areas (MUGA)

  • Cricket Wickets - Practice nets ; two bay, three bay, four bay practice nets ; cricket wickets ; cricket nets ; roof nets for cricket

  • Long Jump / Athletics - long jump run ups

  • Bowling Greens / Tennis Courts - Natural bowling greens ; synthetic bowling greens ; synthetic tennis courts ; pitch & putt golf areas, full construction of tennis courts including drainage and line marking

  • Maintenance & Repair - we offer a wide variety of  maintenance packages for all synthetic, artificial grass and 3rd Generation MUGA pitches, from drag brushing, infill levels, chemical treatments to full renovation power sweeping

 

The table below identifies the general suitability of the main types of playing surface discussed on this web site, for a range of sports, although this will also depend on the standard of play that is intended. Please note that these descriptions are provided as a general guide only and are not necessarily indicative of the views or requirements of individual National governing Bodies of sport:

Sports Surface/ MUGA Type

5-a-side
Football

Tennis

Mini
Tennis

Netball

Basketball

Hockey

Rugby
Training

Athletics
Training

Football
Training

Macadam (Type 1)

4

1

1

2

1

4

4

4

4

Macadam (Type 2)

4

2

2

1

2

4

4

4

4

Polymeric (Type 3)

3

2

2

1

2

3

4

3

3

Polymeric (Type 4)

2

3

3

3

2

3

3

1

2

Sand filled synthetic turf (Type 5a)

1

4

4

4

4

1

2

3 (excluding spikes)

1

Sand dressed synthetic turf (Type 5b)

2

3

3

4

3

1

3

3 (excluding spikes)

2

Needle- punch synthetic turf (Type 5c)

2

3

3

4

3

2

3

3 (excluding spikes)

2


1 - Preferred Surface
2 - Suitable Surface
3 - Possible surface though less suitable
4 - Unsuitable surface