Unpainted Rubber Mulch

Description

Unpainted rubber mulch

This is the rubber with nothing added to it. No pigment, no coating — the material arrives the color it already was, which runs through charcoal and gray with the variation you would expect from a recycled feedstock.

People choose it for two different reasons. Some want the honest, worked look of an industrial material and would rather the ground read as surface than as decoration. Others simply do not want to make a color decision at all, and unpainted removes the question.

Note on the color guarantee

The twelve-year color guarantee covers the painted colors, because it is the pigment it guarantees. Unpainted carries no pigment, so it sits outside that guarantee — there is nothing applied to it that could change.

A pallet of it

Seventy-five cubic feet, at the same price either way. Fifty bags of one and a half cubic feet, or one super sack.

Take bags if the mulch is going to be carried; take the super sack only where a loading dock, or a forklift and a pallet jack is already on site.

The delivered figure

Freight is already counted in it. Select your state and quantity and the price shown is the price paid, with nothing added afterward.

Orders of one to seven pallets complete on this page. Larger than that and the freight is worked out individually, so send the quantity and delivery ZIP for a figure.

Depth beneath equipment

Cushioning depends on depth, not on appearance. The deeper the installed layer, the greater the fall height it absorbs, which is what every playground specification is built around.

Where the fall height rating and matching depth are needed, they go out with the order — what a school board, an insurer or a licensing inspector will expect to be shown.

In a landscape setting

Unpainted works where the architecture is doing the talking. Against concrete, corten steel, modern hardscape or a gravel garden, a neutral ground plane holds everything together without adding another color to the scheme.

Its behavior in weather is identical to the painted range. It does not float off in a storm and it does not slide down a graded bed.

Working out how much

Area in square feet times depth in feet equals cubic feet. Three inches being a quarter of a foot, a 300 square foot bed at three inches wants 75 cubic feet — a single pallet.

Play areas are installed deeper than beds and so take more for the same area. The calculator does the sum, or send your measurements and we will do it.

How it ages

It does not rot, so nothing is lost to the soil over a season and nothing needs buying twice.

It does not compact. Wood chips break down and press flat; this gives underfoot and springs back.

It does travel in the places that get used hardest — swing landings, slide exits, cut corners. Rake it back, add a little where it has thinned, and the upkeep is done.

What it is made of

Recycled tires, cleaned and shredded, with magnets removing the steel belting and air classification lifting away the fabric.

Ordering

Set the state, the packaging and the number of pallets, and the delivered price appears as you choose.

It ships curbside to the lower 48, where the order is in bags. The driver sets the pallet at the end of the driveway.