Trampoline enclosure
Although it’s uncommon for children to bounce off a round trampoline, the consequences can be very serious, so we decided to get a netting enclosure for our trampoline.
The same design of trampoline is sold under various brand names, which gave us a large choice of supplier for the enclosure. Prices ranged from £100 to £300 for what appeared to me to be very similar enclosures, so we shopped at the lower end of the price range.
The one we purchased was marketed as being for a Dragon brand trampoline, which provided some mirth when the packing slip arrived, describing the contents as “Cage for 14 foot Dragon”!
It took an hour or two to assemble, which was straightforward except that one of the U-bolts had a faulty thread and was unusable. That kind of quality control failure really shouldn’t happen nowadays.
The finished item seems to do the job nicely.
One consequence of having an enclosure is that the children feel safer and I guess are less worried about falling off. Therefore, they bounce less carefully, and as a result of this have already bounced into the net a few times.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Yes the 14ft dragon safety net is a good enclosure at a very good price at just over £100. We send out lots of these and have found that they fit a wide variety of trampolines with 38mm diameter legs. One feature I like about it particularly is that it has a cord at the bottom that means that effectively you “sew” the net into the trampoline bed. Some other enclosures have a large gap between the bed and the safety net which makes it a good place to wriggle through or worse get your head stuck while someone else is bouncing & you’re trying to get off! I’m not referring to myself of course but I have seen many children do this.
July 19th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I agree with Ellie Louis that the cord that weaves the net to the base is a good idea. It works well. The only downside is that it’s not quite so easy for kids to just “blow” spiders out of the trampoline anymore because the attachment is virtually continuous.