Zero Gravity Ultima 4 Trampoline

Is the Zero Gravity Ultima 4 Trampoline worth buying?

Yes, the Zero Gravity Ultima 4 Trampoline at £149.96 is worth buying when every jumper in the house weighs under 75 kg and you want the longest-wearing padding on an 8 ft frame. It carries 42 springs under a weldless steel frame, stands 2.56 m tall, and 3,578 owners rate it 4.6. The top of the safety pad is PVC with 20 mm of EPE foam under it, which is the layer that stops a knee meeting the steel rail.

If anyone who bounces weighs more than 75 kg, this is the wrong trampoline and no discount fixes that. The Kanga 8 ft carries 100 kg for £109.95, and the mcc direct 8 ft is rated to 250 kg for £94.99. Buy the Ultima 4 for the enclosure height and the padding on a garden where the children and adults all sit under the limit.

What does the Zero Gravity Ultima 4 cost per foot of frame?

It works out at £18.75 per foot: £149.96 for an 8 ft (2.44 m) round frame, which is more per foot than the Kanga 8 ft at £13.74 and the mcc direct 8 ft at £11.87. That extra £40 buys the frame and the pad rather than a bigger mat. You get the same 2.44 m of jumping width for the money.

The frame is weldless, and Zero Gravity has run it past 2.5 million cycles without a crack, where a welded frame typically cracks at around 1 million. It also took a 500 kg load test before earning EN71 certification. The 42 springs share the 75 kg rating at 1.79 kg each, so the bounce stays firm under a 60 kg teenager rather than going soft and bouncy.

What comes in the box with the Zero Gravity Ultima 4?

You get the trampoline, the safety enclosure netting and the ladder, so nothing else has to be ordered before the first bounce. The 8 ft frame measures 2.44 m across and the enclosure tops out at 2.56 m, high enough that an adult walks under the top ring without ducking. It weighs 39 kg and arrives in one box.

Assembly follows a printed guide that Zero Gravity backs with a phone support line for anyone stuck on a step. The net has a wired top ring that holds its shape, sits on the edge of the jumping surface and comes down in minutes without tools when a storm is forecast. Zero Gravity keeps spare parts available for 3 years.

Where does the Zero Gravity Ultima 4 fall short?

The 75 kg user limit is the hard one. That is 25 kg below the Kanga 8 ft at £109.95 and 175 kg below the mcc direct 8 ft at £94.99, so a grown adult plus one child on the mat at the same time can already be over the line. The rating applies to one jumper at a time, not to a total weight for everyone on the mat.

It is also 39 kg of steel to shift every time the lawn needs cutting, and a 2.56 m enclosure acts like a sail in an open garden until the net comes down. At £18.75 per foot it is the dearest route to 8 ft of trampoline, and 42 springs is six fewer than the cheaper Kanga uses under the same mat.

How does the Zero Gravity Ultima 4 compare with the Kanga and the mcc direct?

The Kanga 8 ft is £40 cheaper at £109.95 and carries 100 kg on 48 springs, which makes it the better pick for a household with an adult around 90 kg. The Ultima 4 answers with the enclosure, standing 2.56 m against the Kanga's 1.65 m overall height, and with a PVC-topped pad over 20 mm of EPE foam instead of a PE cover. Take the Kanga for the weight rating and the Ultima 4 for net height and padding life.

The mcc direct 8 ft is £55 cheaper at £94.99 and takes a 250 kg jumper on 84 springs, so it is the one for a heavy adult who bounces most days. It charges for that in weight: 67 kg of steel and 84 springs to fit at assembly, against 39 kg and 42 springs here. Buy the mcc direct when jumper weight decides and the Ultima 4 when the net and the pad do.