Hardwood Play Chips

Description

Our Hardwood Play Chips are a mixture of chipped hard woods, tested to BS EN 1177 for impact in children's play areas.

It's also great for paths and walkways or for tidying up borders and the like.  Plus this is also a good choice for you animal lovers as it makes a great base for chicken runs and horse menages - it's even Santa's reindeer approved (Cheshire Oaks reindeer farm thumbs up)!

We can supply you with 3 sizes of bulk bag:

  • Jumbo Bulk Bag which contains approx 1000ltrs (one cubic metre)
  • Standard Bulk Bag contains about 750ltrs (same as most builders merchants)
  • Midi Bulk Bag contains approx 500ltrs

Small Handy Bags are approximately 50ltrs and the perfect option if you want a small quantity or if you have access issues and will need to carry through your house or over any walls etc.

Please note that due to the bark being a natural product we are unable to guarantee colour, shape and particle size.

Not quite sure? Order a sample here.
£216.00 £279.38
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Delivery and Shipping

Economy Delivery is currently between 3 - 4 working days. You can also select a delivery date that suits you after this.

Express/Next Working Day may be available depending on your location; please select an option at the checkout (this will vary during Christmas and over bank Holidays).

We use a variety of delivery vehicles and haulage firms to complete our deliveries.

If you live in or near Chester, we'll deliver to you ourselves with a HGV crane, if you live elsewhere in the UK we'll use a pallet network who will use a manually operated pallet truck to move the pallet of bag(s) to the kerbside, onto a level, solid surface such as a tarmac (not gravel or grass sorry).

Bulk Bag and Pallet shipping is free to Cheshire, Flintshire, Wrexham, parts of Manchester, parts of Merseyside and Liverpool - outside of this area prices start at £11.95. Parcels, samples and individual small small bags are shipped with Royal Mail and therefore are not free delivery.

If you have any questions or if you have tight or restricted access, just give us a call on 01244 280008 or send images to sales@dandys.com

Quantity Calculations

Topsoil and Sand

Length (m) X Width (m) = m2 

m2 X 1.2 X Depth (inches)... then divide your total by 36 = tonnes required

Bark, Mulch and Compost

Length (m) X Width (m) = m2 

m2 x 0.05 = cubic metres per 2 inch/50mm depth

Garden Lawn Turf

Length (m) X Width (m) = amount of rolls needed.  We advise that you order 10% extra so that you have plenty for offcuts.

Natural Stone Paving

Length (m) X Width (m) = m2 you need.  Our packs are 15.25m2.

Gravel and Slate

Length (m) X Width (m) = m2 

m2 x 0.04 = tonnes per 1 inch/25mm depth

Crusherrun

Use the Gravel Calculator then multiply by 1.25 (= tonnes per inch)

Conversion:

1 tonne = 1000kgs / 1 Jumbo Bag

1 cubic metre = 1000ltrs / 1 Jumbo Bag

Samples

Order Samples here.

Samples are sent with Royal Mail 2nd class service so please allow 3 to 5 working days (please allow extra during Royal Mail Strikes).

Samples are chosen at random and naturally occurring products may vary slightly in shade and particle size, from load to load.

This is a small amount of product that will fit in your hand, approx 100gms per sample.

Product Disclaimer

Weeds

We do not chemically treat our products for weeds. Weeds thrive in warm, wet weather and especially in very fertile soils and composts like our own. Although every care is taken to remove weeds during our screening process we can not guarantee that weed seeds are not present in the soil or compost that you receive. To keep your topsoil organic we suggest pulling up common weeds, when and if they appear, instead of using chemical weed-killers. Or purchase some of our anti-weed prevent membrane and some gravel or mulch, for an easy weed-free garden!

Gravel/Stone Size & Colour

Images are for representation only.  All products that Dandy’s supplies are naturally occurring products and may have slight variations in colour, size and content, individual rocks, stones or cobbles made be broken or misshaped because of this. Sizes of products specified are approximate and can vary.  Naturally occurring products such as slate, natural stone paving or gravel are sourced from quarries and so can often differ in appearance slightly from load to load.

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Why Buy from Dandy's...

  • 5 stars: 56 (93%)
  • 4 stars: 4 (7%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Gemma W.
Playground Chips

Really good customer service - helped with advice and arranging delivery - sent over quote by email and confirmed quickly too

Will deffo use again

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Geoff C.
nice quality - quick delivery

nice quality chips and delivered quickly

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HELEN D.
Fast Delivery - Item as described

Ordered wood chippings, they arrived well packed on a pallet. Wood chippings look exactly like the photos on the website. Really happy with my purchase - will order again.

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Diane M.
Quality product, excellent customer service

We are pleased with the hardwood playchips- they are just as described and were well packaged. We found the admin staff and delivery driver all helpful and considerate.

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Kieran M.
Love the product

Very good quality.

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Steve L.L.
Hardwood play chips

Excellent quality product and service. The play chips really enhances the boarders and flowers. Will definitely use again.

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Elaine H.
Hardwood Play Chips

Good quality and efficient delivery

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Geoff E.
Dandy's Topsoil & Landscape Supplies

Excellent delivery,hardwood play chips,difficult to review. They are what they are.Not sure what else I can say.

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Fiona T.
Play bark - very happy with product

Website was easy to use. Play bark delivered on time to correct place. Thanks

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Riccardo C.C.
Excellent delivery

We asked for the delivery to be left in a different location than the house. They called en-route to delivery and took instructions over the phone and left the delivery exactly where we wanted it to be left. Lovely chippings too! Thank you.

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CHRISTINE B.
Excellent quality Dandy’s Playbark

Second purchase of Playbark. Best quality with large pieces so is not tiny bits that other suppliers sell. Would not buy from anywhere else. Excellent company to buy from and customer service brilliant especially Kerry who was so helpful. Delivery within a few days so happy customer.

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Selin N.

Hardwood Play Chips

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Garry W.
Exceptional service

Very professional company to deal with. Including service, product,communication.

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C.
Play safe

Super pleased with the product. Clean, dry and delivered on the day we requested it (curbside as terraced property which meant we had to be around to shift it fast). Great communication with Dandy's via Chat. Last time we ordered through a local supplier and ended up with a mess of soil, leaves, bark and a few soggy wood chips. I know where we will be ordering from in future!

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Diana T.
Hardwood chips

Product appears fine, though I ordered a mix of playsafe and ordinary hardwood chips and could not tell which as which. Labelling might have been useful. Delivery prompt, driver very helpful and deposited bags exactly where I wanted them.

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NEWMAN
Soil & Wood Chip success

Good comms, delivered carefully and on time, good quality product which we'd use again. Thanks

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Debbie G.
Hardwood Chip

Excellent product and service

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KIRSTY-ANN C.
Great quality and value

Happy with the quality and really good value for money. Quick easy delivery too.

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Kerim J.
Hardwood Play Chips

We got the wood chips from Dandy’s and were super happy. Quick delivery and great product.

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Margaret A.
Best ever

The order was delivered on time, as promised. The product is excellent ground cover, and beautiful! The Hardwood Play chips were the right choice for out job!

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Leanne S.

Hardwood Play Chips

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John H.
CiB

This was the second purchase of bark chipping which the group had received in the last 2 months. Just like the first order everything went as smoothly, first class service from ordering to delivery.

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Alan L.
wood chip order

A 1 Service and goods they now have the job for good

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Hilton
Great delivery

Excellent product, keeping my hen's feet clean and dry

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Lauren M.
Great customer service!

We had 40x playbark from Dandy's, it was our first order. I called them twice and each time they were professional and knowledgeable. Will been keeping in mind next time we need materials for the garden!

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Vicky L.
Good stuff

Great bark, used it for kids play area and kids loved it.

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Alastair S.A.S.
Hardwood play chips

Quality product. Looks great and efficient delivery

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Emmy B.

Hardwood Play Chips

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Louisa G.
Great product

Great product at a great price. Priduct looks great. No complaints.

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@angiesediblegarden
Vegetable soil and hardwood bark chips for paths

Both fantastic products of great quality for a fair price and speedy delivery 👍

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Melissa A.
Great quality

Good service, and bark looks great, light brown in colour.

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Sally P.

Delivered promptly and good quality bark.

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