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To ask where have all trampolines gone?

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EveningCoffee · 05/04/2020 14:19

Daughter's birthday is coming up, she asked for one since we can't go anywhere. Every single website I have looked at don't have any in stock! I mean decent size ones, not the little one with a handle! Only available ones are expensive, not paying 600 quid for a bloody trampoline. People are really buying them at the moment? I thought everyone is obsessed with toilet paper and soap now?

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Samlew89 · 05/04/2020 15:55

Our dog chewed the net and put holes in ours so I have been on a hunt for one to. They are 100 in asda at the moment. But always sold out by time I get to the shop. They have deliveries most nights, but only a few trampolines at a time if any! Am gutted at I promises the kids one for Easter. Especially now as lockdown.
They do have some in sports direct. But no enclosure and more expensive. Works out over 200 for 12ft and net..
Good luck trying to find one. 😊

Purpleartichoke · 05/04/2020 16:13

Broken bones almost always heal (and dd has had a horrific broken bone so I know how bad it can get and I hope she never experiences trauma like that again).

What really scares me is the brain injury rate with trampolines.

LavenderQuartz · 05/04/2020 16:16

would be a 2 man delivery....how would they do that and keep the required distance?

maybe wait til all this is over

Moreisnnogedag · 05/04/2020 16:17

Please don’t get a trampoline. I’d say most of the paediatric fractures are down to those bloody things - pretty much all the emergency operations I do out of hours on kids are nasty forearm fractures due to them. Particularly at this time you don’t want to have to be in hospital. I won’t allow my dc on them at all.

Malvinaa81 · 05/04/2020 16:17

The fewer trampolines the better!

Moreisnnogedag · 05/04/2020 16:18

Oh and the safety net only stops them from falling out the things and getting head injuries. Loads of kids get injured partly because people allow a second person on it at the same time.

HairyToity · 05/04/2020 16:26

I never bought one as my brother in law who's a surgeon refused to have one for his kids. I can't remember the exact words he used but they often caused a type of break that wasn't a clean break, and more difficult to put right.

myfav · 05/04/2020 16:27

I'm surprised you can't find one. I was under the impression not many people had them anymore due to as pp have said risk of injury. DD2 is obsessed with them at gymnastics but I'd never put one in the garden as accidents are more likely to happen where supervision is more lax. Whatever you end up buying I'd order it sooner rather than later as delivery times are quite long now.

Tulipstulips · 05/04/2020 16:37

We bought a swing and a slide a few days before the lockdown was announced - DH didn’t want a trampoline but I wish I’d insisted now! I knew we wouldn’t be going out to parks any time soon.

Tulipstulips · 05/04/2020 16:38

But now reading this thread, I’m glad we didn’t get one!

ChilliMayo · 05/04/2020 16:43

You could order her a rebounder as a 'promise' for when things are better. These are portable, much safer, you would be able to exercise on it too, and available on Amazon with no delivery issues.

NicLondon1 · 05/04/2020 16:48

Smyths Toys (online) expect to have more in stock this week

notthemum · 05/04/2020 16:51

Have said on another thread. Manufacturers guidelines say.
NO MORE THAN ONE PERSON ON AT A TIME
DON'T ALLOW YOUR CHILD TO DO HANDSTANDS OR SOMERSAULTS
SUPERVISE THE CHILDREN.
Nets are definitely advisable. Have a dgs with autism. He loves it. Can't get out by himself so he is safer in there than he would be elsewhere, but we watch him constantly.

TheletterZ · 05/04/2020 17:06

If you do get one make sure you have enough space, not just for it but surrounding it. Without a net there should be 2.5m clear, with a net at least 50cm clear. It also needs to be on grass, to provide a softer landing. If you have a net it is there for safety not to bounce off.

Only ever have 1 person on the trampoline and just jumping, no tricks.

My daughter got badly injured from falling over a safety net, had a paralysed leg for 3 months, so I am not personally a fan but you can minimise the risks.

oohnicevase · 05/04/2020 17:17

I bought one that can't really fit in my garden but I'll move it on after it's all over . I would think everyone has done the same .. same with lazy spas !!

HoffiCoffi13 · 05/04/2020 17:53

Same here oohnicevase. We didn’t buy one before as there wasn’t an obvious place for it to go. Faced with the prospect of being at home for a long time we moved some stuff around to fit one in. We’ll probably sell it when things are back to ‘normal’.

Birdshitbridgegotme · 05/04/2020 19:28

Look on catalogues. U cab still pay outright but very or littlewoods definitely have some at the moment

pictish · 05/04/2020 19:35

Used to have a trampoline...a ten foot one with a net surround. All three of the kids got hurt one way or another on it.
One day I was sitting at the bottom of the garden when I noticed a large circle of withered grass on the lawn. I wondered what it was until it dawned on me that the trampoline was missing!
No one knew where it went. We still don’t know to this day!
Never did replace it...dangerous bloody thing.

MeanMrMustardSeed · 05/04/2020 19:40

We bought one as soon as schools closed. I think a lot of accidents (not all) occur when there are more than one person on the trampoline, when the net has broken and not been replaced, or when it’s too small for the size of the child.

Ifeelinclined · 05/04/2020 19:43

@pictish, that is bizarre! Did your husband haul it off since the kids were getting injured maybe?

waggydog21 · 05/04/2020 19:49

There was an Irish GP on a daytime show the other day literally begging people not to use trampolines. Even with the net, injuries I’ve known people have include biting through their cheeks or tongues, knocked out teeth, broken ankles fell landing badly, concussion from hitting a pole..it’s just not the time.

pictish · 05/04/2020 19:58

Ifeelinclined - no, he was as baffled as me. We wondered if the wind had picked it up but we are secluded and surrounded by a six foot fence and a wooded bank. It was nowhere to be seen.
Also considered if it was stolen, but who takes a ten foot trampoline over a six foot fence and runs away with it? Certainly wouldn’t fit in a van or anything.
So no, no idea. It simply vanished!

pictish · 05/04/2020 20:02

My son got injured by a twig on it when he was jumping. He fell over, and the twig bounced up, he landed on it and it pierced a hole in the back of his throat. Blood pouring, absolute panic.
He was fine btw...it healed pretty quickly...but yeesh, trampolines...I don’t like them.

Rollercoaster1920 · 05/04/2020 20:10

Wow. The fun police are out today aren't they!