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<big sigh that this is what my life is reduced to, posting questions about kids bloody trampolines. I used to be young and thrusting once upon a time>
What can the hive recommend? The household debate is whether we buy the £120 8ft one or the £250 8ft one.
I'm of the opinion that the extra quality from the more costly one is worth it given the environment it's going to live in, whereas the wife, being of Scottish descent, thinks the cheaper one is (always) the way to go.
Both are galvanized (Plum Products); anyone have any experience of these things?
Post Script: Neither are rated for lardy ass types like me so the whole thing is moot in my view anyway!
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/trampoline-recommendations ]My thread a few weeks ago.[/url]
The thing I particularly like about our new one is that if it's likely to be very windy I can take the side netting down in less than 2 mins. It also means I could take it off during the winter and store it inside thus prolonging it's life.
I bought a secondhand £35 12 foot one off fleabay and its been great.
We have a Plum Products trampoline in our garden. Looking at the website it is more basic than either of the two on offer, and must be three or four years old. Have to admit that it has had a tough life. It is left out all year through the Scottish winter and 'summer'. We hadn't even taken the net down or the pads off.
Last winter, after rolling around the garden in the wind and coping with -20C the uprights buckled and the pad around the edge got torn. As we felt that the kids were old enough (7 and 9) we have now just removed the uprights and safety net and replaced the pad with a new one from Argos. It is still working well and showing remarkably little sign of rust.
My point is that even treated very badly our cheap Plum Products trampoline is still going strong, if you look after it then I should imagine either will give you enough years of bouncing to see the kids through... although the flip side of the argument is that if you take Sharbaits advice then you won't have to leave the darn thing blowing around your garden through the winter gales 😉 .
Pretty much all of our neighbours have trampolines for their children, it's quite disconcerting to see their heads repeatedly bobbing up and down over the fence FOR HOURS! 😆
Seriously, we need to figure out some way of generating electricity from them. Energy crisis solved!
FOR HOURS!
Well that is precisely what we're aiming for. The longer it keeps them entertained the better!
We've got the 8ft Plum one, bought it using clubcard vouchers from Tesco direct. Kids love it, seems nicely made and robust enough. I'd get yourself a little ladder for getting on and off if your kids are young (mine are 3 & 2 and it's just a little high at the moment).
Never had trampolines when i were a kid..
Get a 10 foot or 12 foot one. Otherwise, what's the point if you can't [s]embarrass yourself in front of the neighbours[/s] join in the fun?
Also - don't jump drunk, and don't jump in the pitch dark with torches. My kids still talk about that particularly dangerous suggestion of mine two years on...
We got a 14" trampampoline from B&Q. Got a few years out of it. When it became unsafe, last year, we replaced it. Best thing we ever bought for the garden, kids love it!
We got a 14" trampampoline
Is it for gerbils or something?
A friend of mine had the genius idea of hiring a mini digger and sinking the trampoline in the ground. Then he didn't need the netting around it and it can't see it when looking out into the garden (he's got quite nice garden). His kids now build ramps and jump onto it on their bikes and ping off the other side!!!
He has to rescue the odd hedgehog which falls in the hole every now and then mind.
Big TP here and got great value out of it, the kids love it..
We have had a 14 ft trampoline for a while. Spent about £400 or so on it about four years ago but has been well worth it.Has been used more than anything else we have bought for them.I have three boys now aged 12, 15 and 18 and whilst elder two now mostly grown out of it the youngest still uses it all the time and is fantastic on it.
Would say that you should get the biggest that you can fit in your garden. Safer and more fun for everyone.
As said get the biggest you can fit in the garden we had an 8 foot that was upgraded to a 12 ft, if we had space I would have gone bigger.
Mind you my daughter loved it so much she started to go to a trampoline club and now enters competitions, but cannot practice properly on the garden trampoline due to size and the lack of bounce compared to the club ones.
We bought an 8ft Plum (cheaper model) earlier this year and it has been fine.
It was a bit of a pain to set up but since has been trouble free.
Daughter (5) loves it and it is the right size for her over the next few years.