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TigerMulch® and wet pour can be used to provide good access and pathways to and within public open space, parks and woodlands
,which is essential to obtain the maximum benefit to the people who use them.
Pathways provide an effective means of allowing people to move within the space as well as to use different parts of it,
with the minimum impact on the spaces maintenance and upkeep. In order to prevent erosion, pathways need to be a durable hardwearing surface
that fits in with the surrounding green landscape. TigerMulch® is ideal for pathways and erosion control.
Here are just some things that may have an impact on the maintenance of pathways and open spaces;
- Traditional materials such as gravel and wood chippings can erode and will need regular top-ups.
- Some areas will be frequently used due to the nature of the space.
- Play space, gateways, landscape areas, picnic areas and benches get particularly heavy use.
- When grass is eroded it leaves hard compacted soil that does not drain.
- Grass encrouchment and weeds can becoming established in loose pathway material and edging.
- Tarmac or concrete used as a pathway requires longer time scales to be laid than that of loose materials.
- Loose materials may foul or damage grass cutting machinery.
- Most pathways need an edge to retain the pathway's material, which may damage grass cutting machinery.
- Wheelchairs and buggies find it difficult to negotiate loose surfaces.
- Root heave can crack and create hazards on hard surfaced pathways.
- Non-porous pathways may form puddles that can be a hazard in cold weather.
- Hard pathways can look like an un-natural scar cutting through a green space.
TigerMulch® provides solutions to help keep costs down;
- TigerMulch® is a bound surface that stays where it is put.
- TigerMulch® has been in use since 2001.
- TigerMulch® has been tested and conforms with the Performance Specification of BS EN1177 and BS 7188.
- TigerMulch® can be used as a mowing strip around uprights and along the edge of traditional paths.
- Grass encrouchment and weeds will not become established due to the free draining nature of TigerMulch®.
- TigerMulch® is quick and easy to install by our trained teams.
- Grass cutting machinery can sweep over TigerMulch® with out damaging the surface or machinary.
- No edge is required in a grass area with TigerMulch®..
- Wheelchairs and buggies find TigerMulch® easy to negotiate.
- TigerMulch® is a rubber material and therefore stretches to accominate root heave and tree girth enlargement.
- TigerMulch® is permeable and drains freely.
- TigerMulch® provides a dureable natural looking path in keeping with the natural environment.
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