Is There A Way To Shelter the Rock Climbing Machine?

I have one indoors and it still breaks every other second. My Sims fix it for hours and hours until I reset them, or they get electrocuted. Some Sims can fix it, maybe it's the level, but it just breaks again before he can even use it. Of course, it's in the basement, and for some reason EA thinks the basement is outside because it always says it's too cold to swim in the indoor pool and they carry umbrellas in the house. Oh well.