Customer Reviews

Frame It All Sandbox Cover, Hexagonal

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I'd get again since there seem few options, but the item only took about 3 months in the sun to fade. Also, no matter how tightly the strings are pulled, water pools between sections.

this cover is rugged, but to the point where it holds water and when it rains you are constantly bailing out the pools of water. I do not like the elastic type pull cords that are used to tighten the cover to the sand box. It is hard to adjust it without changing the positions of each corner. I feel it should have been made with one pull cord that when pulled would tighten the cover all the way around and evenly.

I don't know what people were expecting from this. This is a high-end tarp, and it does what a tarp does. It keeps out leaves, sticks and the neighborhood cats. Water does collect on the tarp, and often, when you pull it off, the water dumps into the sandbox. But water isn't a problem, since it sinks into the sand (and kids like the sand wet). The problem is all the yard debris that gets onto the sand if you don't have a cover. And for protecting the sandbox from nature's debris, this tarp does a great job. It stays securely on and doesn't blow off. I've been very happy with ours. After six years of being outdoors all through our New England winter, it has worn out (ripped, faded, gotten a bit mildewy). I'm replacing it with the same thing. People who really don't want water to collect should buy a hard plastic cover.

The cover comes with a big inflatable beach ball to place in the middle of your sandbox, supposedly to help the water run off the cover, but water still accumulates and sags under the weight of water, making big, stank, murky water puddles that end up in your sand anyway when you try to take the cover off. I personally would not mind the sand getting wet, since it would just drain out the bottom anyway, and wet sand is much better for play and building castles with than dry sand. Dry sand also flies much more easily into eyes. I just want a taut cover that will keep critters who want to use my large sandbox as their personal loo out of my sandbox. This cover does not do that, as the weight of the water pulls the cover in and creates openings where animals could get in. It also does not have very good UV protection, as my cover lasted one summer before fading, and three summers before ripping and shredding apart.

Had a hard time finding a large sandbox with a cover. Was happy to find this combo, but the sand still gets wet. A piece was missing when we installed it, but the company was very helpful with the replacement.

I found that this cover accumulated water puddles even when tightened, and then started mildewing on the top. A hard plastic cover would be far superior to this. It is hard to put on, hard to remove (without getting water or sand all over yourself). It fades in the sun.

I thought this would be waterproof - I should have read the description more closely.
For the price, it should have been. It is durable and when put on correctly,
does the trick - but you have to make sure you line it up right or it will be too tight to
fit. It also fades in the sun.