Why playgrounds and schools are falling in love with TºCool®.
Synthetic turf is a fantastic option for playgrounds. Less maintenance than natural grass and has the ability to dramatically increase usage and playability for kids around the globe. When choosing a surface for your school’s playground, synthetic turf checks so many boxes.
√ Low maintenance - No need to constantly water or maintain the area.
√ Durability - Time tested synthetic turf system allows for constant play.
√ Safe - Can be designed and engineered for fall height and shock absorption.
√ Clean – No more tracking mud into the school. No more stains on your student or child’s new pair of jeans.
By replacing natural grass surfaces, synthetic turf provides the benefits of cushioning, enhanced durability, fiber support, and easy maintenance... while offering an “all-weather” alternative to the grass surfaces.
Whether you’re a principal, school administrator, or a parent, caring for a kid is obviously a tremendous responsibility. You are constantly balancing your kid’s safety with fun. Ensuring they exercise and develop physically, emotionally and mentally in the process. Playgrounds allow for an environment to do all of these things and most importantly do them safely.
Emergency departments treat more than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger for playground-related injuries. On your school playground, safety must come first to reduce safety hazards for your students and kids and to minimize liability. Synthetic turf can be engineered to create the highest quality, safest, system for your playground.
For decades, however, one negative characteristic of synthetic turf has been experienced but not resolved. During warm weather months or climates, synthetic turf of all types has the potential to get hot, Really HOT…consistently reaching temperatures of 140ºF+!
There has not been a proven, effective, and long-lasting solution to the heat issue to date.
Now there is TºCool®
TºCool , A Synthetic Turf Cooling Infill – Keeping kids cool and safe while they play outside.
TºCool is a revolutionary evaporative cooling technology designed to mitigate the dangerous and oppressive heat on synthetic turf surfaces. The patented technology is the only proven and effective synthetic turf cooling solution on the market today. Reducing temperatures up to 50ºF+ and cooling the synthetic turf surface for multiple days.
TºCool® is a proven, patented, evaporative cooling technology.
Reducing synthetic turf temperatures 35ºF-50ºF for multiple days, TºCool Sand is highly spherical, rounded, dustless, and contains zero acrylic coatings.
“Organic” Infill Versus TºCool Infill
There are infill options available that claim to cool. For example, “Organic” options such as cork, coconut, and walnut.
Without getting too “scientificy”, these infills ADsorb, not ABsorb. Meaning the water stays on the surface of the material and drains quickly. Therefore, on one watering, the cooling benefits they claim are not effective and last minutes, not days.
Click here to learn more about the differences between ADsorb and ABsorb.
Cork, wood, coconut, and walnut. All of these infills will float, degrade, mold, and have to be replaced multiple times throughout the lifetime of the synthetic turf playground area.
Based on basic science, these materials will not provide sustained evaporative cooling.
Pictured left - Coconut and wood infill floating in a cup of water. Perfect example of ADsorb.
With TºCool, the film coating ABsorbs a calibrated amount of H2O. Nothing else. The odor and microbe causing components of dog urine, sweat, dirt, etc do not pass through the T°Cool coating's molecular membrane.
TºCool sand is infused with the EPA certified and bio based Antimicrobial, BacShield. TºCool Sand not only keeps the surface 35-50°F+ cooler, but with BacShield, it adds another layer of protection and keeps the surface free from bacteria and malodor causing substances. Which is now more important than ever.
Playgrounds around the United States and beyond are turning to TºCool coated sand infill to further enhance the synthetic turf system options and ensure they are installing the most optimal synthetic turf surface available.
There are so many choices for infill and turf systems out there, but not one has the proven, long lasting cooling effect and added benefit of TºCool. And TºCool doesn’t just claim these benefits, it has proven them overtime.
√ 100% non toxic / non hazardous
√ Long lasting, yet Biodegradable
√ 35ºF-50ºF cooler artificial grass surfaces
√ Less heat = less friction = less turf burns
√ Bio based Antimicrobial
√ Cost Effective - similar price point to standard performance based infills. But with the proven 35ºF-50ºF+ cooling!
√ Contains zero acrylic coatings / zero microplastics / zero heavy metals
√ Does not negatively impact performance or HIC Fall ratings. The chosen 16/30 grade sand is rounded, well graded, and spherical.
Schools, Playgrounds, families and kids are falling in love with synthetic turf systems with TºCool, because now, synthetic turf playgrounds are cleaner, cooler, and safer for kids.
