Anchor check: safety and load ratings
Ratings and what they mean
The wall and trunk grips in this catalog are rated to around 230 lb per hold. That figure describes the hold, not your wall: a grip bolted into soft or delaminated plywood fails long before the resin does.
Treat the rating as a floor for an adult testing a route, not as a target. Nothing in a children's climbing wall should ever be loaded near its limit.
The build is the safety
Three quarter inch plywood on studs, weld nuts set properly, bolts torqued firm and re-checked each season. A hold that has started to rotate is telling you the nut is pulling — stop using that bore until it is fixed.
On a trunk, tension is the equivalent: straps pulled by hand until they do not shift, re-tensioned after the first week and then monthly, with the wrap moved a little every year so the tree never grows against a band.
Underneath and alongside
Matting under an indoor wall and soft ground under a trunk route. A fall from four feet onto a hard floor is the injury that actually happens in home climbing, not a hold failure.
Safety handles at the top of the panel give a child something certain at the moment the wall runs out. For toddlers and little children, an adult stays within arm's reach for the first several sessions, every time.
Routine checks
Before each season: torque, mats, strap condition, and a look at every hold face for cracks.
During the season: wash the grips when the texture stops biting, re-tension straps, and replace rather than demote any strap with a frayed edge.