Hi moms,
I need to purchase a driveway safety net so my kids can ride their bikes in the driveway. However, we do not have grass on either side so it can't just push into the grass. Our grass is elevated a couple feet on one side with a small wall and there is a fence on the other side of the driveway. The net would have to be drilled into cement. I would like feedback from anyone who is using a driveway net they are happy with (retractable after many uses, functions properly) and what did you use if you couldn't poke the pole into grass? I'm assuming the plastic sleeve would be inserted into the ground after drilling through the cement?
Also, we are unable to buy a more permanent gate because we share the driveway with the house behind us.
thanks moms!
This may be totally hicksville, but I just park the van in front of the driveway to block it off. Super easy.
Can't you just stand or sit at the end of the driveway 'til you can trust they won't go out in the street? Sounds like a like of work (and expense) for the net.
We had bright, neon, green/yellow, plastic children that held bike flags and I placed them at the end of our driveway. I then sait with my neighbor near the little green men to make sure the kids stayed inside their boundaries. My kids didn't go outside without me until they were well old enough not to have to use the little green men.
I agree with Christina.. We always park across the bottom of the driveway.. Never had a problem. And best of all , did not cost anything..
We live on a busy street (35 mph is the official speed limit, but cars go faster, sigh)... and cars like to use our driveway to turn around in (most houses on our street don't have driveways... street parking is king). We also have a LOT of foot traffic (about 10 blocks from a major University.
To keep cars, bikes, balls, pedestrians, etc., where we want them... what we did was to rent a masonry drill... drill out THREE holes... put in PVC pipe in those 3 places. When we want the net up the net is stretched across the 2 holes in perpendicular to our driveway. When we want the driveway drivable... we just walk the net to the 3rd hole that makes the net parallell to our driveway along the fence.
It's a hand-me-down net, so I have no idea what brand it is. Later... we're looking at getting a 6-10' net (or sewing 2 of the shorter nets together)... so the boys can play basketball.
you live in a 2 on a lot...been there, done that! So, no you wont be able to block the driveway with your car.
How about installing something into the side of the concrete to hold the net, like a pipe, or even a pvc pipe. I never had a net, but our neighbours (also on a 2 on a lot) put up a volley ball net across the drive way, I think they used pipe on both ends to hold it in place. Just an idea.
