Sunk in trampoline?

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Anyone have any experience with an in-ground trampoline? Are they any good? Do they last? Any idea of costs involved etc. What's the maintenance like?

Is there any way in which to use the space they're in for anything other than bouncing on maybe by putting something over it?

Thanks!

I’ve been looking at one of these recently. They look great and my kids loved trying them out in the show room. The in ground trampoline was approx £800, but the professional installation by the same company is £1600! Spending nearly £2.5k on a trampoline seems excessive. I need to get another quote for installation. We’ll be having skips delivered for other groundworks soon, so it may work out cheaper for me to ask my contractor to install the trampoline instead.

You’re looking at at least a day for a person with a digger. £350 for that at least then you’ll need the much removed which you’ll need to pay for and some sort of drainage put in too I think or at least some gravel. So easily talking at least £500 for something that seems really simple, just digging a hole!

I really wanted one and DH talked me down. I think they look so cool!

Or you could get a couple of skips and get a shovel and start digging ????

Those i know who've had them did it themselves.

You do need to think about drainage
You need to check whats underground too ( i looked into it but there were drainage pipes running in that spot so not possible)

Dh did ours. Farmer and digger driver. Took him most of the day. Huge amount of soil. Then as a pp said drainage. I've seen so many with no drain, really stinky and dangerous. Reseeded round edges, grew in quick. It is great, just messy at first.

I think if I had to do it again I would still have a net. My DC are little, so bounce, bounce, crash. They can't yet differentiate between trampoline and grass. They also are a danger elsewhere as not used to raised ones.

Yes you 10000000% still need a net!

We have one, it was here when we moved in.
We don't have a net

We don't have a net

The problem with that is the kid bounces 5 feet in the air and lands on the grass. They could actually break bones. Net all the way.

I grew up when there were no nets, and we did land in the grass/through the springs/into a bystander/garden....
Over the years I recall at least two kids needed casts, three with stitches, and one lost a tooth

We sunk ours because the netting was becoming unsafe. Never had an accident on it, come to think of it. Been sunk in since youngest DC was < 2yo.

Ours is a standard one placed in ground, DH dug the ground out by hand (had dug a pond there before, though.

Build an escape route for critters that fall in, if yours has open space all around like ours. I have to rescue odd things from underneath, sometimes.

The only type of trampoline my family has had personal experience of injurie with is a sunken one. Parents think because they’re in the ground kids can’t get hurt so they don’t get a net and stop supervising and before you know it the child has a broken jaw or shattered cocyx. As long as you put in a net and actively supervise it should be ok

We bought a big trampoline and DD3 bounced on it before we put it in the ground. It was really bouncy and she loved it (she used to do trampoline club). As soon as it was in the ground, she complained that it wasn't bouncy any more. We took it back out, and it was lovely and bouncy again. So I wonder if there is a design feature of in-ground trampolines that avoids the loss of bounce? We filled the hole in again.

can i recommend you google the springfree trampolines