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Sandpit from Tchibo

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SoupDragon · 06/04/2005 09:29

I got sent a Tchibo catalogue through the post last week and in it they have a fantastic sandpit where the lid folds bak to form 2 benches. Having looked via Google, it's a bargain.

Why can't I find it on their website?? I much prefer ordering online as I hate phoning up

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Pamina3 · 06/04/2005 15:56

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choccychic · 06/04/2005 16:09

Tchibo sandpit looks great but has anyone seen a similar one with a base ? Our garden has such a high water table that after a day or twos rain the pit would be flooded!

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SoupDragon · 06/04/2005 19:11

The only other ones I saw exactly like this were £80 and had no base. Recommended the weed control membrane stuff. I guess you could use that rubbery pond liner though.

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bundle · 06/04/2005 19:13

pamina, do tell re: touchable bubbles

hoxtonchick · 06/04/2005 19:17

touchable bubbles are very strange, rubbery. ds got given some & i had to surreptitiously throw them away as they stained everything.

bundle · 06/04/2005 19:20

my girls love bubbles, was thinking of getting a bubble machine

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SoupDragon · 06/04/2005 19:21

The ELC bubble machine is fantastic. Highly recommended!

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bundle · 06/04/2005 19:21

soupy is it pricey?

bundle · 06/04/2005 19:22

soupy is it pricey?

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SoupDragon · 06/04/2005 19:22

£15
£15

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bundle · 06/04/2005 19:23

wow

wow

i have this image of bubbles floating across the garden in the summer, girls laughing, me with a pimms in my hand...sigh

bossykate · 06/04/2005 19:26

soupie, stoppit, stoppit, stoppit!

tassis · 06/04/2005 19:27

Choccychic, we've just got one from B&Q for ds that has a base. It's wooden and about a metre square. Comes with a cover. There's one similar in Argos that has benchy bits at the side and it's £40. The B&Q one comes with a gazebo as an optional extra.

hub2dee · 06/04/2005 20:44

Soupy, just to advise: a pond liner will hold water and make it hard for your sand to dry out (which is the aim of the game).

A weed membrane is porous so allows passage of water through it....

If you've only got pond liner / tarpaulin, you can use it but puncture with plenty of holes first.

pixel · 06/04/2005 23:13

I've just ordered the sandpit for ds's birthday!

Argos does sand for £2.50 but they are only 15kg bags. Our local garden centre has 25kg bags, 3 for £10 (proper play sand) so it is worth looking around.

ladymuck · 06/04/2005 23:42

I have tended to use Argos sand, but only because they deliver (and even carry it through to the grden or store in the garage as you prefer). Definitely a perk to have someone else doing all that lugging around (especially as this size of sandpit requires about 10 bags for a reasonable fill). Just got this year top-up of another 5 bags delivered.

I too tried Dh on the fort Soupy, but he wasn't having it. I might try again next year. Ds2 (2) is still happy with the Little Tikes cottage thing.

SPARKLER1 · 06/04/2005 23:50

I saw this sandpit in the Tchibo magazine that fell out of the Sunday paper last weekend. It caught my eye too - but I got put off with the fact that it didn't have a base and the lid wasn't watertight.

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SoupDragon · 07/04/2005 09:14

hub2dee, I suggested pondliner as an alternative for Choccychic to stop the sandpit flooding from underneath. I'm going to use the weed stuff because our garden is over chalk and drains well.

Sparkler, the non watertight lid doesn't bother me because it will drain (and therefore the no-base bit is really a plus). I do kind of wish there was a base but I'm happy to use the weed membrane as the pit is otherwise perfect.

No word from DH on the Fort or house-on-stilts, Ladymuck - I think he's ignoring me! The fort is pretty much what I wanted to build for them from scratch (with the potential to link up to the treehouse I'm planning for them!)

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flashingnose · 07/04/2005 09:15

I want to come and live in your garden SD - sounds great!

flashingnose · 07/04/2005 09:17

Out of interest, whe the benches fold over the sandpit, would that make it totally cat-proof (my big bugbear at the mo )?

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SoupDragon · 07/04/2005 09:19

Ah, but all these things are in my head at the moment! I lack the skills to put them into reality. OUr garden's pretty long with a huge beech tree at the end. There's a good sized space behind a hedge and to one side of this treee where we plan to hid all the kiddy stuff. It will be their area. I'd love to link up a fort type structure with a platform round the beech tree in the next couple of years (at 4, DS2 is a lttle too young and daredevil!)

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SoupDragon · 07/04/2005 09:20

I need hub2dee to come and sort my garden out

I think it would make it catproof insomuch as the cat couldn't get at the sand. I guess they could wee/poo on the wooden top but don't think they'd do this sould they?

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flashingnose · 07/04/2005 09:38

Flipping well hope not . GRRRR!!!!