A good swing set will last a long time. Your child’s interest in swing sets? Maybe not as long.

Fortunately, there are some simple ways to upgrade your backyard swing set so that your kids can have more fun, and you can get more out of your investment.

One of the scariest scenes in the movie Jaws has nothing to do with the shark.

It’s in the first 10 minutes of the movie, where we meet Chief Brody, his family, and their dangerous – it cuts the older son’s hand – creaky, 1970s metal swing-set.

OK, so we may be biased, given our line of work. But there’s something about seeing a low-quality backyard swing set that makes us cringe.