Post by 29Mossdale on Jan 30, 2006 22:47:36 GMT -8
A thread was started on Sunday inviting comments on the fence changes for the pool area, but it’s missing. My guess is that the author removed the discussion thread.
I had a chance to look at the fence more closely tonight, after I walked my dog, and I noticed some issues with the fence. I’m assuming our association’s aware of the defects, and are working with the vendor (who installed the height extenders) to correct them.
Our pool area’s surrounding fence looks like it’s made up of steel fence panels 58 inches high. So, raised about two feet off the ground, the fence is probably 5 feet high. I first noticed it on Saturday that the fence height was extended, I didn’t measure it, but it looks like 18 to 24 inches, at least as tall as the stone posts on the corners.
This may have been an issue before, and if it is, then the height extension exasperated the condition, but the fence is very wobbly on the straight panels that are longer than six feet in length, especially on the length across from the lodge.
It’s so wobbly, that all one has to do to get into the pool area (by the gate) is to push the fence forward and the gate door pops open without needing a key. Also, closing the door causes the gate to wobble quite a bit, and I wonder what the cumulative affect (damage) will be on the fence. Plus, it appears (in my opinion) that a couple of kids could now knock the fence down by pushing and pulling the gate, causing the gate poles or bolts (that connect the fence to the stone posts) to bend or snap. Also, it looks like the fence could now fail if enough bodies lean against the fence. Finally, I wonder when the wind kicks up, if the wind can now cause the fence to wobble, and with enough wobbling damage the fence.
I hope this is corrected before someone gets hurt.
If the fence height was extended to prevent unauthorized access to the pool, I doubt it will work. When I asked my wife to look at the fence, my ten year old daughter was all too eager to show my wife how easily (and quickly) one can scale the fence. In fact my daughter mentioned that the height extensions made it easier to climb down from the fence. I don’t encourage my kids to climb over the pool fence, and my daughter performed the demonstration before my wife could tell her not to, or prevent her from climbing the fence. Both my wife and I have told our kids that they cannot (even to demonstrate) climb the fence, and my daughter’s demonstration is her last fence climb for the pool area.
I had a chance to look at the fence more closely tonight, after I walked my dog, and I noticed some issues with the fence. I’m assuming our association’s aware of the defects, and are working with the vendor (who installed the height extenders) to correct them.
Our pool area’s surrounding fence looks like it’s made up of steel fence panels 58 inches high. So, raised about two feet off the ground, the fence is probably 5 feet high. I first noticed it on Saturday that the fence height was extended, I didn’t measure it, but it looks like 18 to 24 inches, at least as tall as the stone posts on the corners.
This may have been an issue before, and if it is, then the height extension exasperated the condition, but the fence is very wobbly on the straight panels that are longer than six feet in length, especially on the length across from the lodge.
It’s so wobbly, that all one has to do to get into the pool area (by the gate) is to push the fence forward and the gate door pops open without needing a key. Also, closing the door causes the gate to wobble quite a bit, and I wonder what the cumulative affect (damage) will be on the fence. Plus, it appears (in my opinion) that a couple of kids could now knock the fence down by pushing and pulling the gate, causing the gate poles or bolts (that connect the fence to the stone posts) to bend or snap. Also, it looks like the fence could now fail if enough bodies lean against the fence. Finally, I wonder when the wind kicks up, if the wind can now cause the fence to wobble, and with enough wobbling damage the fence.
I hope this is corrected before someone gets hurt.
If the fence height was extended to prevent unauthorized access to the pool, I doubt it will work. When I asked my wife to look at the fence, my ten year old daughter was all too eager to show my wife how easily (and quickly) one can scale the fence. In fact my daughter mentioned that the height extensions made it easier to climb down from the fence. I don’t encourage my kids to climb over the pool fence, and my daughter performed the demonstration before my wife could tell her not to, or prevent her from climbing the fence. Both my wife and I have told our kids that they cannot (even to demonstrate) climb the fence, and my daughter’s demonstration is her last fence climb for the pool area.
