Trampoline

[PumpkinP]

Has anyone put a trampoline together by themselves? Am I being ridiculous in thinking to attempt this? I’m a single mum so no one to help, has anyone put one together on their own?

Before anyone starts about it not being essential I have an 8 year old who has to self isolate for 12 weeks due to the CV and he is considered extremely vulnerable and I need to encourage him out into the garden to exercise as if he had it his way he would sit watching tv all day as he doesn’t usually like going into the garden so I think this will help him.

I guess it depends how strong you are but I would have struggled to put mine together. I could have done all of it apart from the springs.

It is possible to put up a trampoline in your own. Look on YouTube for videos on the best ways to do the springs, as it can be really hard if you get the pattern wrong. I have assembled a couple of trampolines on my own in the past.

Yes, I've done it twice (there's a 2 metre one the kids are using right now)

It's fine - lay out everything, take it slowly.

The difficult bit is getting the springs on - definitely start in one place and work round, or, like me, you might discover you've gone and mis-counted and have to re-do a load.

I think the bigger trampolines are actually easier to do than the smaller ones - I had to go away, rest my arms, and come back to do the last springs on the little one!

I would recommend wearing gloves if you can (I have some of those gardening/work gloves where the fingers/palm have been dipped in rubbery stuff - I got them in lidl, in the right size, and they've been fantastic for everything) - and just being careful, if a spring slips off the hooky thing then it really pings - keep your face away, and don't put your hands near no matter what!

Thanks glad to hear people have done it themselves, not so good about the bigger ones being easier as I was going to go for the 8ft as there is only one place in the garden it can go, as we only have grass at the back and the rest is patio, so it needs to fit on the grass, think 10 ft may be abit big.

I put together a 14ft one by myself.

Tape was useful to hold some bits together whilst putting bolts etc in place.

I would disagree with starting in one place and working round with the springs - it can be really difficult to pull the ones into place on the far side if you do. It might be better to work round with every 10th spring or whatever - easy to count. I'm sure I've made that mistake before!

yeah.. it was bigger than I realised (I got confused converting feet and metres) and I only just squeezed it in!

With the first one I thought I was going to have to give in and get someone to help, but I just needed a break and managed it the second time round.

I would disagree with starting in one place and working round with the springs - it can be really difficult to pull the ones into place on the far side if you do. It might be better to work round with every 10th spring or whatever - easy to count. I'm sure I've made that mistake before!

Yeah - every few springs and then going back and filling in is probably a good idea.