Trampolines

Delray Beach: A Lakeside Trampoline

A 10×17′ rectangle in a yard that backs onto a lake, done in a day and a half. Where the water goes, and the sprinklers that had to move.

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A rectangle in-ground trampoline set flush in a lawn, sprinklers running beside it, with a hedge and palms behind and a crew member at the far end

This one went into a back lawn in Delray Beach that runs down to a lake: a 10×17′ rectangle, between a pool deck on one side and the water on the other. It took a day and a half from the first cut to the sprinklers running again.

Two things made it different from a plain lawn install. The water had to go somewhere, and the irrigation was in the way.

Laying it out

The frame goes down on the lawn first, so everyone can see exactly where the trampoline will sit before anything is dug. Here it runs alongside the paver walk, with the lake beyond the fence.

A rectangular metal frame laid out on a green lawn beside a white paver walk, with a chain-link fence, palms and a lake behind The frame laid out on the first afternoon, before the dig.

Where the water goes

A pit is the lowest point in any yard, so every pit needs somewhere for water to go. This one has a sump pump. Its basin sits at the bottom, in a bed of gravel on the liner, and it pumps what collects there out to the lake.

Inside a lined pit: a coiled black hose resting in a patch of pale gravel on black fabric, between the sandy wall of the dig and a sheet of liner The top of the sump pump basin at the bottom of the pit, its hose coiled ready to connect.

Two crew members kneeling at a chain-link fence beside a lake, with a fresh trench and lengths of white pipe across the lawn in front of them Trenching across the lawn to the fence line by the lake.

We covered why drainage matters in what goes under an in-ground trampoline.

Moving the sprinklers

The irrigation ran right through the spot the trampoline needed. So it was rerouted around the pit before the lawn went back down.

A rectangle in-ground trampoline in a freshly patched lawn with sprinklers running across it, a crew member kneeling at the pad and another standing by the hedge The second evening: the lawn patched up to the pad, and the rerouted sprinklers on.

The finished yard

The mat sits level with the grass, so from the house it reads as part of the lawn, not a piece of equipment in it.

If your yard is long and narrow like this one, the 10×17′ rectangle is on our shop with its full specifications. Every yard is its own job, though, which is why we come out and look first. Ask us for a quote, or price your yard for a rough idea.

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