Once the tape on your floor says 120 by 110 fits, the five large frames are the same size. What you will live with for years is the wood, and what is actually in the box.
I get asked which is "the best." There is not a best. There is the one whose wood you still like when the novelty is gone, and whose pieces match the way your children play. The slide can be a different material from the frame. That is normal. Ask what the frame is. That is what they stand on, and what the screws have to hold after a year of every afternoon.
How to choose by age and by room, before you fall in love with a grain, is in the buying guide. This note is only the wood.
| Set | The wood | What the play is |
|---|---|---|
| Classic | Solid pine | Ramp, ladder, rope net, swing. The straightforward gym. We have not published an age. Buy it because you want pine in the room. |
| Rock | Araucaria pine | A wall with geometric openings. The climbing is the point. About 1.5 to 7. |
| Rainbow | Beech, and multilayer poplar on the materials list | Coloured rack, double-sided slide, rings, swing. Frame 200 kg, swing 50 kg. About 1.5 to 7. Beech is dense. Gyms have been made of it for a reason. |
| Sun | Beech, with multilayer poplar and birch | A platform. In the box: frame, slide, pad, wooden swing, play curtain. The hammock, tent, baby swing, magnetic board, mattress and rings are separate. About 1.5 to 7. Free shipping in the United States. |
| Walnut | Black walnut and beech. Slide in pine plywood. | The dark frame. Water-based finish. Frame rated to 200 kg. No age published. Choose it for the wood you want to look at. |
What I would tell you in the showroom
Run a hand along the frame, not the slide. Pine is lighter in colour and in feeling. It is the Classic, and it is a complete gym: ramp, ladder, net, swing. Araucaria on the Rock is there because the wall is a climbing wall, openings to find, not a ladder you already understand. Beech, on Rainbow and in Sun, is the hard one. If more than one child is going to treat this as furniture, density matters. Walnut is the one people choose when the room is already a certain kind of room. I would not talk you into it for a feature. I would talk you into it if you already know you want that wood.
Two limits, on Rainbow, Sun and Walnut. The frame is 200 kg. The swing is 50 kg. They are not one number. An adult sitting on the swing to test the "200 kg" is testing the wrong part. The triangle, if you are still on a first climber, is birch, 60 × 90 × 70 cm, 50 kg for the set.
All of them are tested to EN71, ASTM and CPSIA. The finish on these frames is water-based. Grain will vary. Two sets of the same name will not be twins. That is wood, not a flaw in the photograph you ordered from.
It means the frame holds fasteners and takes knocks. Safety is also the limit you respect, the mat, and you in the room while they are small. Beech does not supervise anyone.
The frame is natural beech. The colour is the climbing rack. That is the rainbow in the name. If you want no colour at all, look at Classic or Walnut, and accept that the play is different, not just the paint.
Same floor. Different wood.
120 × 110 × 110 cm, five ways. Choose what you can stand to see every day.
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