Indoor paintball - help needed

[Dougal]

Guys,
I need some advice pronto. Possible indoor paintball site being considered, but it has a concrete floor.
What is the best and cheapest floor covering available to minimise risks to health and safety, and to make the floor really 'playable?'

Cheers

Dougal

 

[sjt19]

Carpet, when it gets wet with the paint it becomes slick and is great to play on.

Or cover the floor in about 10 inches or so of sand, like playing on the beach

 

[le-pig]

stj19

i hope your being sarchastic,slidey and hard =owwwwww
sand =bye bye marker(if you dive /fall)

dougal
cover the floor with saw dust,absorbent and soft

 

[Ambush Paintball]

Won't be any softer than concrete, but they used to paint pub/club cellars with a special easy clean, damp proof paint - might be worth looking at modern equivalents.
Would have though the ideal surface would be that squashy tarmac stuff they use on childrens playgrounds - probabaly expensive though.
Where is this potential site??

 

[D6]

What about the wood-chip they use in kids playgrounds?

 

[sjt19]

stj19

Originally posted by le-pig
i hope your being sarchastic,slidey and hard =owwwwww
sand =bye bye marker(if you dive /fall)

dougal
cover the floor with saw dust,absorbent and soft

no, skyball in canada had carpet on the floor and it aparently was not paintfall, and was great for slides.

sand would be great to, Huntingdon beach NPPL was played on the beach, few complaints there. Saw dust would not be any better than sand in terms of gun wear.

how about fake grass? or astro turf?

 

[ChrisWhiteSTEL]

Just use this stuff...

http://www.astrolawn.com

I was originally proposing an idea to someone i knew but we both went on to other things and never got round to trying it out..

They use it for all sorts of playing fields and gardens.

 

[L J]

Originally posted by ChrisWhiteSTEL
Just use this stuff...

http://www.astrolawn.com

I was originally proposing an idea to someone i knew but we both went on to other things and never got round to trying it out..

They use it for all sorts of playing fields and gardens.

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do you get free hands with it?

 

[ChrisWhiteSTEL]

Well... prosthetic hands are available on the NHS and i think there policies relate to that when it crosses the Atlantic.

Ahh well... some people are stupid enough to cut with there hands in the way or with a blunt blade which is loads more dangerous!

Safety Warning - Just to give an example, the one time my uncle was cutting some
pvcu cladding with a blunt blade. He was off work for the day and was at home alone (auntie gone out). So... he put his knee on the work bench and cut down the plastic cladding on da workmate (bench). He slipped and put the knife right through his entire upper thigh. He quickly held it together with electric tape (wicked stuff for cuts or open wounds ) and called the ambulance. Dont cut towards yaself and/or with a blunt blade!

It comes with instructions Jon give em a break its yankee doodle!

 

[Ms Bossy]

You will have insurance problems with using woodchips or bark.