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Holiday park play area inspections
Quiet all winter, then hammered from Easter to October. Park play areas need a different rhythm from a village site — and a repair response measured in hours.
Cornwall's holiday parks, caravan parks and campsites run the most concentrated play-area usage anywhere in the country. Equipment sits idle through the winter, taking salt air and weather with nobody on site to notice what it is doing, then gets used relentlessly for six months by guests who chose the park partly because of it.
Both halves of that cycle cause problems. Winter is when corrosion, timber rot and foundation movement happen unobserved. Summer is when wear accelerates and when a failure costs you most — a taped-off play area in the first week of August is a review problem as much as a safety one.
How the year runs
- Pre-season operational inspection — winter damage, corrosion and rot caught with time to fix them
- In-season checks timed around your occupancy and the school-holiday peaks
- Your maintenance team trained and set up to record the routine daily checks in-house
- Fast repair response through the season, quoted from photographs where it saves a day
- End-of-season report so winter works can be planned and budgeted properly
- Multi-park operators: one programme, one report format, one contact
The coastal problem
Salt air corrosion
Fixings, chains, bearings and steel uprights degrade far faster within a few hundred metres of the coast. Surface rust is cosmetic; section loss at a fixing is not, and telling them apart is the job.
Timber at ground line
Wet Cornish winters rot posts from below the surface upward. A unit that looks sound at eye level can be structurally finished at the base, which is where we probe first.
Surfacing wear
Six months of concentrated use compacts and displaces impact-absorbing surfacing under the busiest units — measured against critical fall height, not judged by eye.
Inspection and repair from one contact
In season, the gap between finding a fault and fixing it is what actually costs you. Because we repair as well as inspect — equipment repairs to any manufacturer's kit, plus wetpour, resin-bound rubber and rubber mulch surfacing — a finding can be quoted and closed without waiting on a second contractor to come down from up country. Repairs are quoted item by item against the report, photographed on completion, and the record sent for your files.
Scope and cover
Outdoor equipment only — playgrounds, MUGAs, skate ramps, outdoor gyms and trim trails. We do not inspect indoor soft play. Routine and operational inspections are carried out under our own RPII registration; the independent annual main inspection requires the separate RPII Annual grade, which we do not hold, so we arrange that with an Annual-grade inspector from a separate practice and invoice it as one job.
Across Cornwall, plus the Tamar border into Devon as far as Launceston, Saltash and Torpoint.
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Questions
Frequently asked
When should a holiday park book its pre-season inspection?
Late winter, with enough margin before opening to get remedial work done — February or early March for an Easter opening. Booking it the week before you open leaves no room to fix anything that turns up.
Something has broken in August. How fast can you get here?
Send photos and we will advise the same day. Being Cornwall-based means response is measured in hours rather than next week, which is the entire point of using someone local when a taped-off play area is costing you reviews in peak season.
Do you inspect indoor soft play?
No — outdoor equipment only. Many parks have both, and the indoor side needs a different competence and a different standard, so we say so rather than take it on.
We run several parks. Can you cover them all?
Yes. Multi-park operators get one programme, one report format and one contact, with visits grouped so travel is not billed separately against each site.