PlaySmart’s Grass Mat Innovations
As the UK’s leading expert in grass mat safety surfacing, PlaySmart is dedicated to providing you with all of the information and tools you need. Our team is here to help you make an informed decision on the right surfacing solution for your outdoor area.
We recommend our rubber grass mat technology as an exciting innovation for price, durability, and function in playground safety flooring. Our grass mat range provides an ideal safe playground for any outdoor area looking for a cost-effective surface solution.
EcoSmart
EcoSmart Grass Mats are the intelligent choice for safety surface grass matting. The recycled rubber honeycomb structure surfacing are an eco-friendly, easy-install option for any site. Old-fashioned flooring like hard plastic or tile are less durable and less effective than long-lasting naturally shock absorbent rubber.
Long-Lasting
EcoSmart offers a 10-year product and 5-year installation guarantee. This means that they are one of the most durable and reliable surfacing options on the market. However, our focus on quality and innovation in our products helps to avoid this issue. With suitable grass mat maintenance continued on the surface, your playground remains reliably high-quality throughout its lifespan.
One of the things our customers love most about our EcoSmart Grass Mats is the low maintenance requirements. The porous surface prevents puddling and flooding. Also, as the grass grows through the mat, all you need to do is mow when required, simple!
Safety Specifications
Our number 1 priority in our safety surfacing is to provide the best surface for children’s play areas. We do this through effective and top-of-the-line slip and fall protection.
Critical Fall Height for EcoSmart mats is up to 2.25m with a good grass base in independent, reliable field tests. However, in areas with variable weather and ground-quality conditions, we recommend a SmartPlay shock pad underlay to ensure increased fall protection for these heights.
Meeting and exceeding British Standards in slip and fall resistance is a mission to which PlaySmart is dedicated. We carry out testing in accordance with BSEN:1177 for fall protection, and BS:7188 for slip resistance for rubber mat flooring.
Other Benefits
Among the many benefits of EcoSmart Grass Mats are:
- Year-round installation
- Grass, soil, and land erosion control
- Working with the natural grass growth to provide a natural look
- Minimal groundwork costs and time
- Hard-wearing
- Low maintenance
- Perfect for any outdoor area, including areas with equipment, skate parks, recreation grounds, outdoor gyms, and play areas for any age group.
FireSmart
A great innovation, unique to PlaySmart’s rubber mat provisions is our fire-resistant rubber grass mats, FireSmart. Now an industry standard for fire retardant surfacing, FireSmart rubber grass matting provides up to 3m of Critical Fall Height protection with a good grass base in addition to its fire resistance.
Fire-Resistance Technology Innovations
These fireproof mats are essential playground surfacing ideas for areas prone to vandalism, around timber play equipment, or dry vegetation.
The ingenuity of this surfacing solution is in its self-extinguishing properties. FireSmart is accredited to British Standards of flammability performance of full extinguishing within 60 seconds of ignition. The 10mm outer wall of a unique rubber blend provides strength and durability suitable for all applications with great value for money as a reliable, long-lasting option.
We have conducted rigorous independent testing to ensure that our rubber mat design achieved our goals of providing the best-quality fire-resistant innovations, protecting your playground for years to come.
SmartPlay
Our patented SmartPlay shock pad underlay is an innovative and unique addition to provide extra protection from falls from increased heights than our other grass mats. Installed with our EcoSmart or FireSmart grass mats, they can be effectively used with no additional maintenance or intrusiveness for any playground site, creating a natural-looking grass area with an extra safe layer of protection.
Improved Critical Fall Heights for Grass Mat Safety Surfacing
Our key aim in designing and manufacturing our SmartPlay shock absorbent surface underlay was to improve the safety of everyone on the playground in all ground and weather conditions.
For areas that require above a 2m Critical Fall Height, we recommend using our SmartPlay system because it can offer more security in the event of changes to conditions of the grass, soil, and rubber quality. In cold conditions, frozen ground can reduce the effectiveness of the fall protection of basic rubber mat surfaces, but with an extra layer of protection, risks can be mitigated no matter the weather!
PlaySmart offers two varieties of shock-absorbent protection: SmartPlay 25, and SmartPlay 45. Independent tests for BS EN 1177 (2018) accreditation have found that SmartPlay 25 improves the Critical Fall Height performance of conventional EcoSmart grass mats by 1.15m on concrete, and 0.65m on grass. Whereas SmartPlay 45 increases concrete base critical fall height by 1.75m, and over 0.75m on grass.
Patented SmartPlay Technology
SmartPlay’s innovative system has a registered European patent (Number 2794257), as a high-quality innovation to safety surfacing. The foam shock-pad system uses a unique perforated structure and design to work with and enhance both natural grass and the conventional rubber grass mat. Our expert installation team is able to effectively and non-disruptively install the system to the high quality that PlaySmart is always able to offer based on our 20 years of experience.
Choose PlaySmart for the Best Grass Mat Safety Surfacing
If you are looking for expert advice and playground consultation services, you can fill in our handy contact form or give us a call at 01564 742811.
