Some children can't slide fast enough, while others prefer it a little slower. If you know what your kids want before you build it, it's easy to customize the slide accordingly.
Small children in particular prefer to slide a little more slowly
In this case, simply design the slide to be flatter. The easiest way to achieve this is to build the frame for the slide a little lower. An alternative would also be to raise the end of the slide a bit. However, you should make sure that the "exit" from the slide is not too high and that your children do not fall off.
Can I slow down a finished slide?
If you have finished (assembling) your slide and only then realize that it is much too fast for your children, then it will be difficult to change it. If the children are still quite young, the slow slide may only be necessary for a relatively short time. A possible option would then be to choose non-slip clothing or trousers. Just try it out.
If non-slip clothing is not an option for you, then consider converting the slide. If you can make the slide surface flatter, you will lose some speed. To do this, you would either have to lower the starting point of the slide or move the end up a little. But that requires a little manual skill.
Another possibility is to roughen the sliding surface. This also makes the slide slower. However, this measure is not easy to undo if your children later want to slide faster again. Incidentally, this also applies to the conversion to a flatter slide.
Making a slide (temporarily) slower step by step:
- is the problem temporary or permanent?
- helpful in the short term: non-slip clothing, e.g. B. Jeans instead of leggings
- long-term solutions: roughen the slide or make it flatter
tips
Before you change anything on the slide, let your children slide with different clothes/pants. Maybe that way the problem will sort itself out.