INSTALLATION SERVICES
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Playground installation is a labour intensive process, and can account 25% to 50% of your playground budget, if not more. Kan-Go-Roo Playgrounds can help you reduce installation costs and help meet your budget without breaking the bank. This document will give you a general idea of what is involved with a playground installation, although for more information please feel free to contact Kan-Go-RooPlaygrounds at any time. We are here to help make your project a reality.
Installation Money Saving Tips
Here are four examples of how Kan-Go-Roo Playgrounds can ensure that the installation conforms to our installation instructions and to the National Standard of Canada CAN/CSA-Z614-07.
Kan-Go-Roo Installers
Kan-Go-Roo Playgrounds has a network of installers across Canada, who can do 100% of the installation.
Supervised Installation
In order to reduce installation costs Kan-Go-Roo Playgrounds can send a playground supervisor to help with he planning and installation. This method helps save money, although you will need to find volunteers to help with the playground and/or site preparation.
Do-It-Yourself Playground Installation
In order to reduce installation costs; you may install the equipment yourself. This is easily accomplished with less complicated structures or if you have experienced volunteers that can install playground structures.
Free standing structures tend to be the easiest to install, and require less labour intensive work.
Telephone Support
Kan-Go-Roo is at your service at any time during business hour. If there are any questions or concern during the installation process, please feel free to contact us, and a qualified person will help you.
Installation Methods: Kan-Go-Roo offers two (2) types of installations.
1. Concrete Installation
Installing a playground in concrete is a labour intensive process, and installers can often run into unforeseen problems during site preparation or digging of holes. i.e. ledge rock, buried pipes, cables, wires, etc.
- Site preparation: Excavation and grading of playground area
- Calculation and measuring: Measuring and marking of playground post holes.
- Drilling post holes: Each post hole must be drilled with an auger, in rocky areas this is where problems often occur. Each post hole must be levelled, and then a tube is installed. In rocky or urban terrains it is advisable to have a freestanding structure.
- Playground assembly: The playground is then assembled and levelled.
- Pouring concrete: The concrete is then pored and left to harden.
- Clean site: The site is then cleaned of any debris that was caused during installation.
- Placing the Border: If you have chosen a playground border then it will be installed at this point.
- Protective surfacing: The protective surfacing is then distributed over the playground area.
- You now have a playground that you can be proud of, your children will have a safe place to play and you can feel confident that you made the right choice with Kan-Go-Roo Playgrounds Ltd.
2. Free standing Installation
Free standing installation is the process of installing the playground structure on a steel sled, instead of in concrete; this is used mainly to reduce the cost of installation, and to avoid problems with rocky locations or underground wire. It is also much easier to move a structure that is installed on a free standing
sled then a structure that is installed in concrete. Often future projects require a play structure to be moved, with a free standing structure this is much easier to do. There is an extra charge for the free standing frame however this is usually offset by the reduced cost of installation.
