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A whole lot more people than usual have to entertain kids at home these days
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and these Dricor subfloor panels can help you do that in a way you might not have thought of before
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They're normally used to finish basements, but there are other applications too, and you can have some fun with them
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One of the challenges of having kids play more than usual inside is giving them some sort of a surface to play on
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and that's where subfloor panels can help. They provide a flat, smooth, hard surface to play on if you've got carpet, especially wall-to-wall carpet
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but they also provide a place where kids can play and bang around and do crafts and all kinds of things without messing up the surface underneath
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Panels like these fit together tightly enough that they're not going to come apart on their own, even without glue
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so you do need to tap them together on their edges just so they fit together properly
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You might want to consider sanding the edges a little bit to remove any splinters
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if you're going to be using this bare as a play surface
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The textured surface on the other side of these panels works really well with marbles
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It kind of makes them interesting, and here you can see the panel is inclined slightly
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and creates a kind of simple game for rolling the marbles down
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A white paint marker is a really good tool for creating a kind of a throwing game
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Here we've got some hacky sack type things that are being thrown, and you can keep score with this like you would with any one of a number of games
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The way we play it is if a hacky sack is touching the line, it's scored on the lower side of the line
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and you add it up and declare a winner. This is another marble game that works really well on the underside of these Dricor panels
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If you drill 3 quarter inch diameter holes in the bottom of the panel using a spade bit
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you've created pockets now, and you can play a game where you try to get the marbles into the pockets
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It's kind of fun if you have two of these going at the same time, you can make it a race
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You can all start off with, say, five or six marbles, see if you can get them in, see who finishes first
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The way we play it is if one marble falls off, you automatically lose
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You can install these tiles over as much or as little of your basement as you want
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It all comes down to how large of a play area that you'd like to have
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and you just let the kids loose and they enjoy it as much upstairs on the carpet as they do down in the basement
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Dricor subfloor panels are also useful for expanding the usable area in sheds and outbuildings and even garages
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Any floor that has a concrete surface isn't great for these activities
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but the subfloor panels just make it a whole lot more comfortable for playing
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but also for exercising, dancing, if you've got a large enough area
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and just generally getting more use out of the covered space that you've got
