Sandbox

For many people say colloquially sandbox sandbox or sandbox. In most cases, the sand pit a demarcated area bounded by wooden boards or stones. It is usually something built into the ground. Ultimately, the field will then have filled with sand. As a rule, a sandpit, a square shape, but there is also the option to individually create and to vary the shape.

A demarcation of the area is then possible for example with the help of palisades. Sand boxes can even be created as mentioned above, or the decision is in favor of a finished model. This is a prefabricated form mostly from hard plastic material, which can then only be filled with sand. A sandbox is to serve as a playground for children. He is mainly for children who find themselves in an age before enrollment.

The places where sand boxes are to be found primarily, playing fields, playgrounds and, indeed, domestic gardens. It is a guide, after a sand pit should be filled with a minimum of 40cm in the deep sand. There was even a DIN standard, namely 18 034, according to one grain of sand in the sandbox have a diameter of 1-2 mm. This is not unimportant, as the past has shown that difficulties can arise, especially in larger children when they dig caves and holes in the collapse of these buildings and severe injuries. One way to prevent such accidents is to install a gate or composite stones, the water pass underneath the sand. On a public playground should also sand at least every two years to be replaced.