Installing your trampoline
You can install a Mr Trampoline yourself. That is the deliberate position, not a disclaimer. We manufacture trampolines; we do not install residential ones. It is not difficult work — it is just niche, and once you have the drawings it is well within reach of a competent builder, landscaper or handy owner.
So there are three honest routes, and we will support any of them.
1 · Do it yourself
Every model ships with the drawings and the assembly sequence. The guides on our Shop page are the same documents our own installers work from — dimensioned, step-photographed and free to download.
If you get stuck, call us. We would rather talk you through a frame measurement than have you guess at it.
2 · Use your own builder, landscaper or tradesperson
This is what most in-ground customers do. Hand them the in-ground guide and the builder’s specification — between them they carry the pit dimensions, the concrete detail and the drainage requirement, which is everything a competent trade needs. We are happy to speak to your builder directly before or during the job.
3 · Use an installer we know
We keep a list of installers we have worked with. It is strongest in Victoria — Melbourne metro, the Mornington Peninsula, Geelong and Leongatha — with single contacts in Perth, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Byron Bay. We do not have anyone in Adelaide, Hobart, Canberra, Darwin or Sydney, so outside those Victorian areas the realistic route is your own trade working from our drawings.
Tell us where you are and we will tell you honestly whether we know someone near you.
What in-ground installation costs
The kit price is not the landed cost. An in-ground trampoline needs a pit, concrete, drainage and the frame set in place, and that work costs money whoever does it. We would rather you saw the number now than at quoting stage.
All figures below are excluding GST, and they are for installation work only — trampoline prices are on the product pages.
| In-ground model | Install only | With a sump pump | With pump and all soil carted away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family | $5,000 | $6,200 | $7,700 |
| Olympic | $5,000 | $6,200 | $8,200 |
| Olympic Elite | $6,000 | $7,200 | $9,200 – $9,700 |
What the base price does: excavates the pit and leaves the soil on site for you to manage · installs the frame with concreted legs · concretes to the base of the trampoline · lays 100 mm screenings for simple drainage · fits the bounce mat and the rubber surround.
Soil removal — $500 per truck load (about 3 m³ each; roughly 3 loads for a Family, 4 for an Olympic, 4–5 for an Olympic Elite). Optional by design. Many customers hire a 6 m³ skip for around $650 and deal with it themselves, or keep the soil for landscaping.
Sump pump and pit drainage — $1,200. A submersible pump in a 450 × 450 pit, for a high water table or poor-draining ground. You supply the power point: we will connect a pump to one within about 3 m, but a licensed electrician must install the point itself. We do not do electrical work.
Priced on application: difficult access, long dumper runs, stairs and rock. These are the reason we recommend a site inspection before anyone commits to a final number.
What above-ground setup costs
Above-ground and free-standing models are much simpler. Excluding GST:
| Job | From |
|---|---|
| Assembly, free-standing trampoline, with rubber or pads | $550 |
| Fit a mat only | $200 |
| Fit rubber only | $240 |
| Fit padding only | $120 |
| Fit mat and rubber or pads | $440 |
| Fit a spring kit only | $100 |
Plus an attendance charge for the visit: Melbourne metro $110 · Mornington Peninsula $165 · Ballarat and Geelong $220 · beyond two hours each way $300.
So a Melbourne-metro above-ground setup starts at $660 — $550 assembly plus the $110 metro attendance.
Commercial installation is different
For venues, clubs, schools and performance sites we install in-house, or arrange it ourselves. That is a separate conversation.
Ready to plan your installation?
Tell us where you are and what you are working with — we will tell you honestly what your site needs, whoever does the work.