Here’s what we’ll be covering in this guide

What are climbing frames made from? - Wooden Climbing Frames - Metal Climbing Frames (types of metal, steel, aluminium) - Plastic Climbing Frames Who will be using your play equipment? Babies & Toddlers Younger & Older Children Adults Garden & Domestic Use Public Commercial Playgrounds Outdoor & Indoor Play Popular Play Equipment Features - swings - slides - monkey bars - playhouses - accessories Locating your play equipment - small gardens - large climbing frames - garden access & safety - Safety Surfacing Types of installation & assembly - DIY flat pack - Build your own - bespoke custom built - modular - Support & Advice Maintenance & Care Routine Maintenance Maintenance Safety Know who you’re buying from - product reviews - UK based company & warehouse ----

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Popular Play Equipment Features

We try to include the most popular play features on all our sets. Our most frequently requested features are swings, slides, monkey bars, integrated playhouses, and accessories.

Locating your play equipment

It’s important to consider where you’ll place your climbing frame once it arrives. It sounds silly, but climbing frames can be pretty big once assembled. We give measurements for each of our playsets, but remember to add an area for safety and movement. The EU guidelines are 1.8m (approx 6ft) to allow for children to swing, exit the slide and jump/fall without injury from ladders, rockwalls or steps.

Small Gardens

We understand that many towns, cities and new-build housing estates have smaller, or odd shaped gardens. Due to this we manufacture a range of play forts with slides, or small climbing frames for those with small gardens.

Large Climbing Frames

When climbing frames include one or two slides, swings and monkey bars they can be quite large. This provides ample opportunity for your children and their friends to maximise their garden play time.

Garden Safety

We always recommend that you leave area around your play equipment for children to move. They need to be able to access the play features without clashing with other users. The last thing you want is children running through swings to get to the slide!

Safe Surfacing

We recommend our climbing frames are installed directly on a flat, level grass surface. Some ‘cutting in’ may be required to ensure the fort is flat and level. Our sets are not designed to be installed on a undulating or sloping surface. Some customers choose to install a special safety surface such as play bark, rubber, sand or soft bond.

Types of installation & assembly

There are different types of climbing frame kits you can purchase. It is possible to commission a unique garden playset which is bespoke and made-to-measure for you and your children. The price is normally prohibitive. It is also possible to completely design and make a DIY climbing frame of your own creation. The time is also normally prohibitive. We offer well designed, attractive, strong, safe and fun play equipment for a fantastic price.

DIY flat pack

Our products are delivered to your door flat packed in a double layered carboard box. This keeps all the wood hardware and accessories together. They arrive completely ready for home build so you’ll not have any hidden costs or need to buy any extras.

Build your own

For those customers who have a dream of building their kids the best treehouse ever will love our playsets. The illustrated manual will help guide you through step-by-step. At the end though you’ll be the kids hero!

Professional Installation

Some customers don’t have the time to assemble their playset, or would rather someone else do it. For these customers we advise you use a local handyman or DIY flat pack builder to assemble your set. Click here for our advice and tips for using professional installers.

Modular Playsets

Many of our products are modular, or semi-modular. This means you can add bits on at a later stage if you wish. Many customers choose their perfect setup from day one, but some choose to add playhouses, or monkey bars at a later date for extra play value.

Support & Advice

Our UK based customer service team are always available to help and support you. Whether it’s choosing a product for your family, or with help and advice assembling your playset. We’re always on live chat to help you.

Maintenance & Care

Every wooden garden product needs care. Whether a shed, fence, decking, or dining table. You climbing frame will also need some care and maintenance to ensure it lasts a long as possible and stays looking great.

Routine Maintenance

Wooden products suffer from weathering. This is due to the harsh and variable nature of our weather. Some days are blisteringly hot, some a freezing cold, some are soggy. This can cause the wood in your set to dry, peel or crack. The effects of this can be minimised by intermittently applying a stain, sealant or wood protector. We offer a Selwood Wood Stain and Protector if you wish to colour match your set. Some customers choose something similar from a local supplier, or change the colour of their set altogether.

Maintenance Safety

Your children and their friends will undoubtedly be using the climbing frame. So we advise checking it throughout the play season to ensure there’s no likely areas for them to injure themselves. Ensure no screws or bolts have worked loose.

Know who you’re buying from

Purchasing a climbing frame is a considered purchase for any family. It is important because it has both emotional value as you will spend so much time with you children. Plus it is a significant investment for many people. Due to this we strongly advise you consider who you purchase from before you commit to choosing a product. We pride ourselves on fantastic service, in addition to our unbeatable products.

Climbing frame reviews

You’ll see from our many thousands of customers that many people comment about us on social media, or share reviews about us and with us. From our product pages you can see hundreds of individual reviews from customers all over the UK, Europe and world. We also have a customer gallery where you can browse all our customer submitted images.

UK based showroom, warehouse & support

We are UK owned and based. Our showroom, warehouse and head office customer service team is located in the UK. We also have customer service staff located in other countries to support our customers all over the world.