What can I use for a playground surface border?

[WatchingThemGrow]

Wow, you're right! I pulled up my dad's Lowe's in Marietta, and $4 for the same landscape timbers that are $2 in the Triangle. Our ground was low and had to be dug out/filled in with dirt/leveled quite a bit to get the right surface to start our prep. You may just have to get a few pieces of stuff and see what's going to work for your situation. You may have to buy the bigger railroad ties b/c IIRC pea gravel requires greater depth than rubber mulch.

Did you look at the website that tells you the safe depth to fill in the ground?

[JTsMom]

Craziness- it figures. Sigh.

I think we need it to be 6" deep. This is the set:
http://shop.bjs.com/-1199-99-less--1...VVviewprod.htm

I think the highest fall point is about 6'.

[tiapam]

Have you seen this:

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...S&Sp=C&topnav=

and a bit more info, incl videos:

http://www.frameitall.com/

[JTsMom]

Yeah, that looks like the same stuff, but even more expensive! $600. Yikes.

[o_mom]

Craziness- it figures. Sigh.

I think we need it to be 6" deep. This is the set:
http://shop.bjs.com/-1199-99-less--1...VVviewprod.htm

I think the highest fall point is about 6'.

You can still use the landscape timbers from Lowes, just stack them two deep. Basically, you put one on top of the other, drill down through both pieces together and then drive the piece of rebar down through the hole and into the ground. You drive the spike down so it is set a half inch or so below the top and not sticking out.

I think you would need around 20 of those 8' timbers - 5 for each side, so even at $4 each, that's only $80.

ETA: I think they are treated wood, not the creasote of RR ties. Not great, but for edging vs. the actual playset (where they would be grabbing, climbing, etc.) it might be OK.