This are the photos of our lovely playground. We have a sandbox, a see-saw, a tree house, a bridge, a slide and around back where you can't see in the photos a swing set. The round structure where the slide comes from is made out of unused sewage pipes. The tires are keeping in the sand in the sandbox and used to keep a lot of the other structures together.
It was actually pretty interesting to have the slide made by a welder because he had never seen a slide before and was not really clear about what it was going to be used for so it was quite interesting describing what we wanted to him. Needless to say he did not get it right on the first try!
Also all of the sand in the play ground needed to be imported from the beaches down south and shoved in. That was quite a project!
But as you can see the kids really loved it and took to playing on it very quickly. Hopefully the school will be able to keep up the maintenance of it, because the weather out here is pretty brutal and even with all of the hard work and extra though put into it, it could easily fall apart in 6 months! But it isn't too bad. This one cost 40,000 baht to make the maintenance is only 2,000 baht a year.
2 comments:
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Liz, this playground looks lovely! And as far as maintenance goes, a lot of Taiwanese playgrounds I've seen are also made of those types of materials, and it looks like they've weathered the years without much upkeep.
Keep blogging, this stuff is really interesting. Also, can I put you on my blogroll?
Take care,
Vicky
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