Buying for a sensory room/gym

[Mamma27373]

I would love some advice on where to get the following. I have a small budget (£2-3k) to outfit a small room in my home for my 8yo autistic and sensory child. He loves climbing, swinging, jumping and crashing into things and building. I’d love to get:

Padded floors and wall cushions
Swedish ladder and appropriate cushion to jump onto
Monkey bars on the ceiling and bouldering on the walls.
Hammock to chill and spin
Cushions to build (like possum play) and make dens and tunnels
Possibly a small trampoline
Other things like non-glass wall mirrors, lighting, sensory floor tiles.

I’m just a bit wary of being ripped off - I know anything marketed as “sensory” comes with a premium. As we have a budget I would like to get things that last and wont rip or lose their shape after a year. And obviously I want it to
be safe. I’ve seen some lovely Swedish ladders on Etsy but I have no idea how resilient they are. I want a decent crash mat and thought about looking on gymnastics sites (gymnastics direct?) but I’m not sure where to start and my brain is a bit fried looking down various rabbit holes. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed looking at all the different options.

We’d consider secondhand too but doing want to drive too far so it limits our options.
Bonus, DH wants to use a Swedish ladder as a pull up bar. They sell them on Decathlon but he doesn’t like the look of them as much as the wooden ones. Some of it can be used as soft play stuff for my younger child as well.

ANY recommendations for quality equipment would be very grateful for. It does’t have to be super fancy and pretty, just safe, long lasting and functional.

How old is your child? We bought a Swedish ladder from etsy when our son was about 12, installed it ourselves, had to have it reinstalled about a year later by a full on builder with crazy ties into the wall and we have just had to decomission it 4 years later because it was falling apart. To be fair it has been in use pretty much continuously and it has put up with a large, strong teenager swinging from side to side with his full body weight! I am thinking of upgrading to a metal one now. The ladder was really good value so I would say etsy is fine for stuff like that.

Old sofa cushion might be good if you can get hold of them? You could always recover them.

Have you got a local SEND Facebook group. People are often selling equipment like that on ours or may have local suggestions for purchasing & fitting.

We have had a possum play sofa and another brand for years and it is used daily. The possum play one has held its shape really well (we got the double thick one). We actually use the play sofa cushion below the Swedish wall bar as a crash pad as well.

Have you looked at things marketed for schools ? They are designed to be robust. The reason its often expensive is because they are designed to take a battering.