Child Safety Pool Fencing
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Has anyone ever installed one these child safety fences around their pool?
Our new pool has a huge deck so putting something around the deck seems like the best idea. However I am also thinking of possible doing aluminum fencing.
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I practice child safety with prophylactics. Saves money on fences.
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@MattSpeller said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
I practice child safety with prophylactics. Saves money on fences.
Good answer! Tied tubes or depo provara are my preferred child safety measures.
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I haven't used a fence like that but is it really that much in savings that you wouldn't have a proper fence installed to keep everyone out of the pool that should be near it.
Insurance in NY for example almost demands home owners with a pool to have a fence.
If you don't and someone who "breaks" into your property and drowns, get to sue you.
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@DustinB3403 said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
I haven't used a fence like that but is it really that much in savings that you wouldn't have a proper fence installed to keep everyone out of the pool that should be near it.
Insurance in NY for example almost demands home owners with a pool to have a fence.
If you don't and someone who "breaks" into your property and drowns, get to sue you.
We have a proper fence by code, but it fences in the entire backyard. So the worry isn't the neighborhood kids since the backyard fence is lockable. The issue is with our own kids.
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What about the hole you'd have to drill into the decking or concrete around the pool? I mean this fencing system likely does work, but IDK if I'd want to ruin my deck either.
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@IRJ said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
Has anyone ever installed one these child safety fences around their pool?
Our new pool has a huge deck so putting something around the deck seems like the best idea. However I am also thinking of possible doing aluminum fencing.
Check local code. They probably tell you what kind of fence you have to have around it.
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There are 3 ways I was thinking we could fence
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Blue - Shortest point from patio to back fence. ($500 or so to run aluminum fencing). 48 feet
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Red - We could run the safety fence through the deck. Then in the grass add PVC cemented into concrete and keep running the safety fence to our back fence. (About $500 for safety fencing) .60 feet
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Green - We could run the pool safety fence right around the pool. I don't have exact measurements, but I am thinking this is going to be the longest and probably most inconvenient run due to the shape of the pool.
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@DustinB3403 said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
What about the hole you'd have to drill into the decking or concrete around the pool? I mean this fencing system likely does work, but IDK if I'd want to ruin my deck either.
Drilling into concrete is easy and easy to repair later.
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@Jason It is, but the concrete color won't match and would look awkward.
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@DustinB3403 said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
@Jason It is, but the concrete color won't match and would look awkward.
Um, you can match them, that's why there are powered stains for them. you can mix them to match faded concrete as well. If you do it right no one can tell.
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@Jason said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
@IRJ said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
Has anyone ever installed one these child safety fences around their pool?
Our new pool has a huge deck so putting something around the deck seems like the best idea. However I am also thinking of possible doing aluminum fencing.
Check local code. They probably tell you what kind of fence you have to have around it.
We meet the local code. The pool is already fenced and lockable (the whole backyard) The problem is our own kids
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@irj I would go across the grass and just put a long gate in, something that slides side to side rather than front and back.
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@IRJ said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
From a design point of view I'd go with a wood fence near it in the back year to enclouse it and match what is there.
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@IRJ Which is why the blue option should be out. It doesn't solve that problem.
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@Jason said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
@DustinB3403 said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
What about the hole you'd have to drill into the decking or concrete around the pool? I mean this fencing system likely does work, but IDK if I'd want to ruin my deck either.
Drilling into concrete is easy and easy to repair later.
For me, putting fence posts in grass is easier and easier to repair. We are talking 10-15 poles only. THe ground is flat and when you dig 3 feet, you hit water.
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@aaronstuder said in Child Safety Pool Fencing:
@IRJ Which is why the blue option should be out. It doesn't solve that problem.
Blue does solve the problem if we keep a double sided deadbolt on the guest bathroom.
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@IRJ deadbolts are super cheap....
And it's the least destructive approach. . .
