Are there child safety features and warnings regarding the Scratch Pad?
Yes. First, the safety features. Any product or device that hangs freely from the ceiling of a garage will attract young children to want to use the device as a swing or toy. We have anticipated this temptation of young children into the design of the Scratch Pad. The rubber mat and backbone aluminum straps are held in place by the guy wire system which attaches the Scratch Pad to either 1) the hanger dowel overhead in the open beam ceiling garage, or 2) the four eye bolts, secured by toggles, in the dry-walled ceiling of garage. In both installations it is paramount that the side-guy wires (stretching out from the centerline of the backbone at the center hole) are securely clamped at the center hole and the eye bolt anchors overhead. These lateral or side-guy wires stabilize the Scratch Pad and prevent swinging it or playing with it as a swinging toy. We rely on no break-away feature of the hanging system which could drop a young child to injury on a concrete garage floor.
