Worley Construction
Playground installation
Start with the site, clearances and anchoring before the equipment arrives. A good installation follows the manufacturer plan and leaves room for safe use and maintenance.
Service scope
What Worley can help with
Site & assembly
- Layout and site preparation
- Playset and equipment assembly
Safety details
- Anchoring and clear zones
- Surfacing and final inspection
Plan the work
What matters before the work
A play structure arrives looking like the whole job, and the structure is the smallest part of it. Bolting a wood or steel kit together is straightforward work with the instructions on the ground beside it. What decides the cost is the ground it sits on and the surfacing around it.
The ground here moves. Valley yards get watered hard through a long dry summer and then freeze through the winter, and shallow set timber and footings get lifted by the freeze and thaw.
The sun does more damage to play equipment in this country than the rain does. On the order of eight to ten inches of precipitation in a year and a long run of clear hot days means ultraviolet is what works on the plastic.
Questions
Questions about playground installation
The practical questions worth settling before the work starts.
What actually decides what a playground install costs?
The site work and the surfacing, not the equipment. What the set costs is known from the catalog before anyone starts.
Access is the quiet one.A play area behind a narrow side gate means every yard of fill and every bag of concrete moves by hand, and the volumes are bigger than they look.
How much room does a play structure really need?
More than its footprint. The use zone is the clear ground around the equipment where a falling child lands, and for home equipment the usual figure is six feet of clear space on all sides. Swings need more.
That area has to be clear of what a yard is already full of: fence panels, retaining walls, tree trunks, raised sprinkler heads, the corner of a concrete patio, the propane tank.
What surfacing works in this climate, and how deep does it go?
Depth decides how much protection there is. The material decides how much work it is to keep. Loose fill covers engineered wood fiber, rubber mulch, sand and pea gravel, and for home equipment it goes in at around nine inches behind a border.
Rubber mulch does not rot and stays put better in wind, though it gets hot in full afternoon sun, which is one more reason shade matters here.Sand and pea gravel drain well and cost little, and both travel in shoes, and sand draws cats.
Does the equipment have to be set in concrete?
It depends on the equipment and who it is for. Residential kits generally ship with ground anchors or auger stakes matched to that set, and on firm, level ground those hold the structure down well.
In this climate those footings go below the local frost depth, so a winter cannot lift one leg and rack the frame.
Registration and coverage
- Washington general specialty contractor registration WORLEC*798DS
- $30,000 bond, per the Washington contractor registry.
- $1M liability coverage, per the Washington contractor registry.
Where Worley Construction works
- East Wenatchee, WA (home base)
- Wenatchee, WA
- Malaga, WA
- Rock Island, WA
- Orondo, WA
- Entiat, WA
- Chelan Falls, WA
- Chelan, WA
- Waterville, WA
More on the areas Worley Construction serves.
Other services
- Concrete flatwork
- Remodeling
- Windows & doors
- Drywall
- Cabinet installation
- Trim & finish carpentry
- Flooring
- Junk hauling
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