Any ideas to cover the outdoor school?

[ttt]

I was thinking about some sort of ground cover for part the outside school to try and protect it from the ice and snow to enable more use during this weather. Has anyone tried anything or do you have any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[Lucinda_x]

Havent tried this as we dont have a school at the yard but a swimming pool cover maybe? as there designed to be moved about

 

[Happy Hunter]

I know all the racing tracks have a good cover of fleece over the turf - seems to do them the world of good

 

[custard]

Someone on the BD forum has laid a 2 metre track around hers with builders polythene, you need two people to fold it between uses but the snow just slides off. I reckon bubble wrap would be equally good and less than £50 for a 100 metre roll.

 

[Jayde87]

A miracle?!

Or an indoor school... If only.

I think taupaulling used to cover swimming pools would blow away?

 

[ttt]

Many thanks for the ideas.
Swimming pool cover too expensive.
Fleece cover, polythene and bubblewrap being looked into now.
Jayde87, it is Christmas so you never know

Thanks.

 

[Happy Hunter]

Mum uses miles of the stuff in her garden (Were not talking a terraced house postage stamp here)

Horticultural supplies being a good place to start the hunt Try your local centre or ebay??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/7775345.stm

 

[La Fiaba]

I used to work at a yard where we used tarpaulin, however it is very heavy, very time consuming and not very effective in a total downpour. In the end we used it just to cover the track, helped a bit.

 

[spotty_pony]

You could put some plastic sheeting down and place bricks/large stones on it to hold it down.

 

[HKJ]

We did make a cover for our 20 x 40 sand school a few years ago. We brought siledge plastic sheets. Brought on rolls from a farming shop.
We covered ours because the drainage became very bad.
It worked really well, but was rather heavy to fold up. We also had to put tyres over it to stop the wind blowing it away!

You have to allow 15 mins for 2 people to get the cover off before use.

Go for it!