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Each year some 250 children under the age of five drowned in swimming pools. The fact is it's the second leading cause of accidental death among children in this age group. Now, a lot of parents and caregivers think they'll hear a child in distress but the fact is, drowning happens quickly and without warning. Without question, adult supervision is the most important protection against accidental drowning.
However, the sad truth is that two thirds of toddler drownings happen when parental supervision fails and there's no backup system in place. So in order to prevent toddler drownings, we have to think in terms of layers of protection. Now right here. I've got a set of sliding doors that opens out onto the pool area. I've equipped it with an alarm, when this is open, after about seven seconds, that alarm will sound. I can silence the alarm by pushing this button on the side. Now if I want to use this door myself, I just open it up, press the button and pass through.
Now this is my second layer of protection, a fence that runs all the way around the pool. This one is three feet high and that's the absolute minimum. Now here's something you don't want to do, put a piece of furniture like this close to the fence, which can actually act as a ladder for a toddler. Now my gate is self-closing, you can see the closer down there, that's that black spring and I've mounted the latch on the inside of the gate so a toddler can't reach it and high enough so they can't reach it. When I let go of this, it will close and latch automatically. Now, this gate works pretty well, but there are a couple of problems with it that I want to correct. One is I'm not crazy about this exposed spring right here, I'm concerned that a child might get their fingers caught in that and then this latch, while it works good most of the time, sometimes because of changes in humidity, it just doesn't latch. So I'm going to replace this hardware with something a little bit better.
These are adjustable, self-closing hinges. First I mount base plates to the post and gate. Then bolt the hinges to the plates, first on the gate side, then on the post. The spring itself is completely concealed and I adjust spring tension with a screwdriver. Well, the gates self-closing, now it's time to make it self-latching.
I start by mounting two brackets, then slip the latch mechanism into place and secure it with a screw that will be concealed when the gate is closed. The latch mechanism is magnetic, fewer moving parts and more reliable and finally, the gate is easily locked.
Now, if a child should somehow get by the gate latch or the latch should malfunction, the next layer of protection is a gate alarm.
A couple of screws are all that's needed to mount the battery operated alarm. Magnetic sensors are attached to both the gate and post. Now, if a child is somehow able to operate the latch and pass through the gate, that will activate the alarm. In a few seconds it will go off automatically. It can be silenced by pushing the button here on the side. Now, if I want to pass through here, I simply open the gate, push the button once, pass on through and the alarm will not go off.
This is another fence alternative. Made of nylon mesh it's designed to be set up as needed. Aluminum posts slip into holes that have been bored in the pool deck. The fence goes up in sections and they clip together with bolt snaps. Now, sometimes looks can be deceiving, take this fence, for example, it may not look very strong, but actually it's quite tough. Also, because it's nylon mesh, children can't get a handhold or a foothold and climb over it. It has a self-closing and self-latching gate and the latch itself is way up here, again, well out of the reach of toddlers, but maybe the best thing about this fence is that when you don't want it or need it, you can take it down in a matter of minutes.
Another layer of protection that I use is a pool alarm, this will alert me if a child falls into the pool and there's nobody around, it simply sits on the side of the pool like this and it's activated by a change in water displacement. Now, this will simulate a toddler falling in. The surface disturbance caused by a falling child will set off the poolside alarm, which in turn sends a signal to a remote unit inside the house.
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