Does having a small garden affect the type of climbing frame you buy? Yes of course it does but it doesn’t mean you cant have a climbing frame at all. The manufacturers like Plum, Action and Selwood Products do make smaller playsets and climbing frames for modern gardens. Long are the days that your forced to concrete in your climbing frames. If you rent a house they would not like the fact your digging holes in their garden so Selwood Climbing Frames sets are actually built onto the top of the grass. This will still kill the grass but when you leave with a little bit of top soil and grass seed you would be able to put the garden back again.
The climbing frame companies are now designing smaller, slimmer climbing frames to make sure you can squeeze them into gardens. Selwood are even making a tube spiral slide to make the overall footprint of the playset smaller.
Best thing to do is not to measure your full width of the garden or length of the whole garden but to stake or pop markers within the area and to measure that space so that you can allow for “play space” around the out side of the climbing frame.
Your children will not appreciate the biggest set you can squeeze into the garden, they will want to run around and chase each other and be able to access all the areas at ease.
