All the barriers in this home were designed and constructed so that, at any point, the outside of the fencing presented an effective barrier to young children. The homeowner wanted to ensure that he was able to pass a pool fencing inspection in Moolap at his home.
The home had windows along the wall facing the pool—some opened directly into the pool area and one was outside the pool area. The window openings directly into the pool area were “fixed with fasteners so that they could only be removed by the use of a tool and opened to a maximum of 100mm.” However, the window outside the pool area had a brick window ledge that was within the Non-Climbable Zone (NCZ) on the outside of the pool fence. The ledge had a horizontal surface that was “greater than 10mm and its top surface sloped by less than 60 degrees to the horizontal plane.” The homeowner was selling the home and wanted to ensure the pool safety barrier was fully compliant with a Certificate of Pool and Spa Barrier Compliance (Form 23) before he did so.
Window ledges within the NCZ outside the barrier is something that occurs often and is something that is not always easily rectified to make compliant. In this situation, the homeowner purchased a sheet of clear acrylic sheeting from Bunnings and cut it into two smaller pieces to allow it to be secured using screws onto the two surfaces of the brick window ledge.
The horizontal surface is no longer accessible within the NCZ and because the acrylic is clear, it doesn’t impact the access to natural light in the room. This took the homeowner less than an hour to fix and allowed him to receive his Certificate of Pool and Spa Barrier Compliance (Form 23) that evening. He can now feel comfortable that the sale of his house includes a compliant pool safety barrier.
