Assault Course Refurbishment & Obstacle Supply

Refurbishment starts with what you can save. Frames and structures often remain sound long after the components hanging off them have gone, so repairing and renewing worn obstacles, fixtures and fittings usually extends a course’s service life for a fraction of the cost of rebuilding it.

We replace what needs replacing, repair what needs repairing, and tell you which is which before we price any work.

Netting degrades under ultraviolet and abrasion, ropes harden and lose their grip, timber weathers and splits at the fixings, and the fittings holding everything to the structure loosen under repeated shock loading. All of it is predictable, which is why a refurbishment addresses the whole system rather than replacing whichever obstacle happens to look worst.

A scramble net is made to the frame, not the frame to the net. That’s why we supply custom-sized nets for existing structures and new obstacle designs, cut and finished to the dimensions and mesh the obstacle needs, along with replacement netting for frames that are otherwise sound.

Netting is where our rope work earns its place, since specification, construction and termination are the same disciplines we apply to lifting slings and fibre rope assemblies. Attachment matters as much as the net itself, because a net is only as secure as the points holding it to the frame, and those get specified against the structure they fix to.

Climbing ropes come with attachment arrangements suited to the supporting structure and intended use, which is the part most often got wrong. The rope itself is straightforward. The anchorage above it, and whether it suits the beam, gantry or frame it hangs from, decides whether the obstacle is safe, so it is specified rather than assumed.

Balance beam obstacles are supplied and replaced to suit existing course layouts and training requirements, sized and set to the heights the programme uses. Where a beam sits within a wider run of obstacles, it’s matched to what stands on either side rather than fitted in isolation.

When a course needs something that isn’t a standard obstacle, we manufacture and supply to agreed drawings, dimensions, and training objectives. That covers replacements for obstacles whose original supplier has long since gone, alterations to suit changes in the training programme, and one-off builds designed around a specific objective.

Materials are selected for outdoor exposure, repeated use, and the maintenance a site can realistically provide, because an obstacle needing attention every month will not get it. Steel, timber, rope and netting each have their place, and the specification follows the duty rather than the catalogue.

Installation includes removing damaged components and fitting replacement obstacles and accessories as one job, so no course is left partially stripped. Where obstacles fix into existing structures or foundations, we can prove those fixings by pull testing before the obstacle is used, and where obstacles carry people at height, the same discipline behind our height safety systems applies directly.

Beyond the work itself, condition assessments and planned repairs keep a course serviceable, rather than letting it deteriorate between major refurbishments. We schedule refurbishment and deliveries around site access and training programmes, because a course out of action during a training cycle is a bigger problem than the repair.