I am putting together a Playhouse with rubber tiles underneath. Plenty of room in my dirt yard. My question is would it help to put anything under the rubber tiles? Such as would rubber mulch make it softer and safer?
Putting a soft sub-surface will make the structure less stable, not sure what that is. But probably not do a lot to improve the "softness" of the tiles as well as making them not connect together very well!
Adding a layer of rubber mulch underneath the rubber tiles would add extra cushioning to protect falls. But, that extra cushioning means it will squish and move more underfoot so they may be more difficult to keep in posiiton.
It's going on dirt. I was thinking of adding 2-3 inches of paver base such as this:
It's a mixture of sand and stone, that interlocks. It's the same thing used to level and stabilize retaining walls and pavers. Then put the rubber mats on top of this layer of paver base. I would surround it with lawn edging to keep the paver base from coming out of the sides. Eventually, it will be surrounded by a couple of inches of pea gravel. The outline looks like this.
That material should be compacted. After you run over it with a vibratory plate compactor it will almost like pavement but it's a perfect base. You can also used a crusher run stone which is similar but less expensive.
I have a hand tamper which is working well for the retaining wall that I'm working on. Cost seems to be about the same but I get everything from big box stores.
2x6 joists and ledger. Ledger bolted to cinder block wall every 12 inches. Deck is 10x10. 5) 4x6 outer posts and 2) 4x4 inner posts. On top of joists are sheets of 3/4 plywood and a tile floor. Joists are 24 on center. Will my deck hold 3000 lbs and if not can I add supports so that it can?
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I'm making posts for my new porch stairs and routing the caps out of PVC board, and they look great. but I'm a bit concerned about the exposed surface. is lightly sanding to say 180 enough or should I seal in some way? I dont want the exposed cell structure (or whatever it's called!) to be a place for dirt to gather. should I prime and sand? thx!
12-03-22, 01:16 PM
