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Do-it-yourself playground at the summer cottage
Under the conditions of today's negative environmental impact, regular physical activity, which the human body needs, is a decisive moment in the process of creating a healthy lifestyle and excellent physical shape, and physical exercise in the fresh air is a sure way to excellent health and longevity. That is why the cherished dream of everyone who has summer cottages and country houses with a large personal territory is to equip a sports ground with their own hands on their native and well-groomed land.
Content
- Sports ground at the cottage. Choose the right territory video
- Lawn. We form a coating on the sports ground
- Playground Equipment
- Heating systems. How to make sports year-round?
- Equipment for sports complexes or how to fulfill the dream of professional athletes?
Sports ground at the cottage. Choose the right territory
If your summer house has a territory free of dense thickets, well-lit and hidden from strong gusty winds, consider yourself lucky, as the arrangement of your sports ground in a summer cottage does not require preparatory measures. But remember that the area cannot be less than 40-50 square meters, which sometimes becomes a big problem for owners of small plots. Also, when arranging a sports field with your own hands, it is important to observe several fundamental points, the main of which will be listed below. Arrangement of sports grounds is not allowed:
1. In the lowland, as this prevents the site from drying out after precipitation;
2. On a surface located on a slope, since the sports ground should be located on a strictly horizontal plane;
3. Near water sources and ponds: a ball falling into the water can cause damage to water plants and injuries to the child;
4. In areas characterized by a high level of groundwater. This can cause seasonal bending and skewing of sports equipment.
Lawn. We form a coating on the sports ground
Next, you need to think about the formation of the lawn, which at the moment is almost an indispensable type of coating for the arrangement of sports grounds. The initial aspect of lawn formation is the arrangement of a kind of foundation, which can be either sandy, gravel or drainage. The thickness of such a fundamental embankment should not exceed 5-10 cm. After that, it is appropriate to prepare a layer of earth, whose thickness is 25 cm, and dig it up, during which all available weeds are eliminated.
Sowing lawn grass is the final stage of arranging the lawn. The formation of a high-quality turf layer will take about a year and a half and will make football fans temporarily abandon this sport. However, an alternative to a traditional lawn can be a rolled lawn, the manufacturing method of which accelerates the process of coating formation.
Before laying a rolled lawn, it is necessary to deal with the careful distribution of mineral fertilizers, the presence of which will extend the life of the lawn coating. Types of fertilizers vary depending on the time of year: from May to June, it is preferable to use nitrogen fertilizers, and from August potash and phosphorus.
During laying of a rolled lawn it is forbidden to allow irregularities or gaps, in order to avoid which experts recommend using a knife and a shovel. To ensure effective adhesion of the coating to the ground, a heavy skating rink is required.
Immediately after installation, it is necessary to achieve complete soil moisture. The period during which the lawn is not thoroughly rooted should ideally be associated with daily two-time watering, which implies the mandatory regulation of the amount of moisture depending on weather conditions. At the end of three weeks, sports equipment and outdoor games can be placed on such a surface.
Playground Equipment
The ideal equipment for equipping a sports ground for summer cottages will be horizontal bars and Swedish stairs, gymnastic bars and other equipment.
We must not forget that the important role is played by the location of these sports elements, which also has its own characteristics.
For example, the arrangement of shells should prevent their overheating, and should also meet the requirements for a summer cottage, according to which the location of shells near fruit trees and a fence is prohibited.
A pair of mini-football gates will please football players, and basketball fans will be delighted with the basketball stand.
Heating systems. How to make sports year-round?
If your goal is to create a sports ground in the garden for year-round sports, you can not do without heating systems, which can be both electric and water. They practically do not differ from those that are used for installing a warm floor.
Snow melting systems are represented by a set of connecting and heating cables, as well as devices for protecting and regulating the electrical system. The heat source in this case is an electric cable of a resistive or self-regulating type. In this case, the resistive heating elements are divided into single-core cables, which include a single heating core, and two-core, represented by a connecting and heating core.
Also included in such systems is a device for automatic regulation of the sensor, which is necessary to maintain the set temperature of the object being heated. The installation of the sensor is carried out in places of greatest ice formation, while it must be positioned with the sensitive element up.
We should also talk about the specifics of heating the lawn, which is also characterized by its own characteristics. It is no secret that they consist in maintaining a certain temperature for the aerial and root parts of plants used to create a lawn. To do this, it is advisable to consider the arrangement of automatic thermoregulation in such a way that it includes two sensors, one of which is necessary for regulating the soil temperature, and the second for monitoring the air temperature.
Of course, soil heating is a top priority, requiring more time and material costs. In this case, you can use the liquid heating system, the cost of which is much less.
Equipment for sports complexes or how to fulfill the dream of professional athletes?
Soon, loyal lovers of a healthy lifestyle will have to think about a more serious equipment for the sports field, which implies the presence of entire sports complexes, for example, tennis and basketball courts.
This will require specialized sports equipment, arranging a fence of welded metal structures, as well as a durable synthetic coating, the operation of which is possible within two days after its installation. In order to avoid various kinds of misunderstandings, it is better to entrust the arrangement of platforms for professional sports activities to specialists. The total cost of the sports ground will directly depend on the equipment that was used to equip the sports territory, and on the cost of the work of specialists, if one had to resort to it.
