What’s The Safest Outdoor Fencing For Kids?
Posted by Lee Benson on 10th Sep 2024
When it comes to babyproofing or childproofing our homes, there’s typically plenty of resources available on installing child locks or finding the right fence for your playpen. But as your toddler grows older, they’ll want to spend more and more time outside of their cots and playpens – your entire backyard becomes their new playpen.
So how do you go about childproofing an outdoor space? Whilst there’ll always be little dangers you can’t eradicate like the risk of bug bites, the best method for keeping your kids safe when they’re playing in your backyard is to invest in kid-friendly outdoor fencing.
At Outback Fencing, we actually stock a wide range of kid-safe fencing supplies, all of which we’ve recommended to our customers with great feedback. Today, we’ve selected the four most highly-rated safest outdoor fencing for kids so Aussie parents can shop our full selection of fencing supplies with total confidence.
Here’s our full write-up on the best kid-friendly fence panels you can find here at Outback Fencing.
PVC Full Privacy Fencing
Best Privacy Fencing for Kids
For families who do a lot of outdoor living, you’re likely to have two primary concerns when designing your garden space: privacy and noise reduction. You don’t want your kids’ outdoor play disturbing your neighbours, but you also don’t want to feel like your kids are being monitored when they’re enjoying themselves.
With traditional timber parameter fencing, there are additional concerns of fences being scalable – the textured surface of timber fence panels makes it easy for trespassers to gain enough of a foothold to enter your garden spaces. Thankfully, we stock a range of alternatives to timber fencing that are designed to provide privacy and even aid in noise reduction.
Did you know that PVC fence panels reduce noise by as much as 23 dB? This is because the air pockets inside PVC panels effectively block out noise, ensuring your kids can enjoy uninterrupted outdoor play that also doesn’t disturb your neighbours. Both these noise reduction capabilities and the general durability of PVC are the reason why we’ve recommended these fence panels as great dog-friendly fences as well.
Whilst our range of PVC fences does boast a few different panel styles, we have to recommend PVC Full Privacy Fencing for families with younger children. Being 1.8m high and with a smooth textured panel profile that significantly reduces scalability, it’s really a no-brainer as to why this fence style is amongst the most top-rated safest outdoor fencing for kids. And if the standard full privacy panel design doesn’t pique your fancy, then why not look at our PVC Full Privacy Slat Top Fencing instead? These panels offer all the privacy benefits of our standard full privacy PVC fencing with a slat top design variation that may be better suited to your unique garden design scheme.
Want to learn more about our PVC fence products? Then check out our write-up on all the benefits of PVC fence designs.
Colorbond Fencing
Best Weather-Resistant Kid-Safe Fencing
Living in Australia, we naturally have a lot of customers ask us what fence panels we’d recommend for hot or arid areas. For homeowners contending with desert winds or even higher surface level temperatures resulting from direct solar exposure, it’s naturally ideal to invest in fencing that’s wind-resistant or reflects sunlight – or ideally both. Again, our PVC fence panels are a great solution here.
For bushfire prone areas, however, investing in kid-safe perimeter fencing also means considering fire safety. Thankfully, we don’t have to look too far to find the best fencing materials for fire safety – because Colorbond steel is, after all, tempered right here on this sunkissed continent.
A fan favourite within our collection of fencing supplies, Colorbond fencing panels provide virtually all the benefits of PVC fencing with three additional selling points:
- 100% steel construction – our Colorbond fencing panels are constructed using 100% authentic Colorbond treated steel, providing improved durability and a lower maintenance design when compared to other steel fencing supplies.
- Ignitability index of 0 – Colorbond steel has been tried and tested for its fire resistance right here in Australia, ensuring a 0 ignitability index that makes Colorbond fences suitable for bushfire prone regions.
- Over 20 colour options available – you can find Colorbond fences here at Outback Fencing in over 20 different colour options, spanning from neutral, native-inspired tones like Paperbark or Pale Eucalypt, to bolder red, navy, and green colourways.
Alongside being certifiably kid-safe like PVC as well as fire-safe, Colorbond fence panels are also very easy to keep clean and dent-free, making it one of our favourite low-maintenance fence types here at Outback Fencing. The hard-wearing yet still lightweight and even surface of our Colorbond fence panels also ensures that your kids won’t get too bruised up by running into these fences head-on, and nor will your Colorbond panels be likely to accrue any damage either.
Aluminium Perforated Pool Fencing
Best Kid-Safe Pool Fencing
Families with pools, you’ve probably been waiting for these suggestions. Secure pool fencing is vital to ensuring your backyard pool is as safe as possible for young children. Most families who are looking to secure pool fencing for a home with children under the age of 5-8 prioritise two key factors when finding the right fence panels for their swimming pool safety: durability and visibility.
This is what makes our Aluminium Perforated Pool Fencing one of our top picks for the best kid-safe pool fencing available on the market today. With its striking, perforated mesh-look design, these pool fence panels feature 9mm holes that allow for air flow and support visibility without sacrificing structural integrity. The perforated panel design is also relatively smooth as a surface, ensuring reduced risks of children scaling up the pool fencing and accessing pool areas unsupervised.
Remember, however, that any furniture or large garden equipment that’s in proximity to your pool fencing can provide kids with a climbable means of access to your pool area. One of our most crucial backyard safety tips for parents is to ensure that your pool fencing is free from any neighbouring structures like outdoor furniture or even trees that may allow your kids to breach these barriers and access your pool unsupervised.
Glass Pool Fencing
Best High-Visibility Pool Fencing
Whilst our perforated pool fencing does provide high visibility, this list of our best rated kid-safe fencing wouldn’t be complete without showcasing our glass pool fencing either. With their quality tempered glass construction and rust-resistant spigots, our glass pool fence panels are actually incredibly durable and safe for installation in backyards with kids, pets, and maybe even clumsy adults.
Being totally transparent, our glass pool fencing does naturally provide more general visibility than our perforated aluminium pool fencing, as the mesh style of the perf fencing may comparatively cause minor levels of obstruction. The drawback, however, is that glass pool fencing can still crack or shatter even if it doesn’t break. Thankfully, you can purchase individual replacement glass pool fence panels and spigots right here at Outback Fencing, so replacing or updating your glass pool fencing can be done at minimal cost to you – which is always ideal for growing families!
Secure Kid-Friendly Fencing from Outback Fencing
Alongside keeping your kids safe, investing in kid-friendly fencing is also a great way to boost the resale value of your Aussie home, as a property with a backyard that already comes childproofed is guaranteed to appeal to any families who love outdoor living just as much as your own.
And considering our fence supplies are built to last for generations, you can be rest assured that your kid-safe outdoor fencing can be enjoyed not only by your kids, but perhaps even their own. As we like to say here at Outback Fencing, when you shop with us you can get the right fencing in days and enjoy it for years to come.
Shop our full selection of kid-friendly fencing right here at Outback Fencing today to get the ball rolling on your backyard childproofing project. And if you have any questions about any of the top-rated kid-safe fencing products we’ve outlined here, then don’t hesitate to get in touch with our team for even more information and guidance.
