The people of Australia, mainly have two main methods to tackle the hot summer days. One is to stay indoors and keeping the AC switched on all the time and another one is staying cool, fresh and relaxed after enjoying some quality time in the swimming pool.
Mostly people prefer the latter one because keeping AC switched on all the time swells electricity bills significantly.
The problem is that with domestic swimming pools, swimming pool fencing is mandatory too and there are some rules and regulations to follow regarding these fence installations.
Here in this blog post, we will have a detailed review of the laws, standards, rules, etc. to comply with while getting pool fence installation done.
POOL FENCES SYDNEY SAFETY LAWS TO ABIDE BY
According to the experts, it is mandatory that your spa or pool is registered with your local area’s council.
In case, the depth of the spa or pool exceed 30 cms or 300 mm, it becomes important to get it fenced for safety reasons there.
The same rules actually are mandatory on the inflatable swimming pools too.
The minimum height of swimming pool fencing should be 1200 and this includes fencing, wall, everything.
The bottom of the pool fence and gate must be no more than 100mm off the ground.
If there are horizontal rails present there, they should be around 900mm and apart the verticals, they should not exceed 100mm
If the horizontals are less than 900mm apart the verticals must be no more than 10mm wide.
The rules say that the gates of these pool fences Sydney should open away from the pool and the gate should never be propped open.
The gate should come with self-locking properties and this self-closing should e done from any position and "yes", self-latching property should also be there.
All climbable objects must be at least 900mm away from the fence on the outside.
There should be a CPR sign displayed prominently around the entire swimming pool area.
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