Important Areas of Pool Fences to Be Inspected During Swimming Pool Fencing Maintenance

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Important Areas of Pool Fences to Be Inspected
During Swimming Pool Fencing Maintenance
Whatever safety devices you have in your home, it
is recommended that they are checked at least
twice in a year for any kind of flaw or defect so
that they can be traced and resolved. This will
not just keep you free from stress, but at the
same time, will also help you keep the device
working perfectly for you and one such device or
installation is the swimming pool fencing.
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In fact, experts say that since it is a mandatory
safety installation in the properties here in
Australia, they deserve much more attention than
any other. Therefore, in this PPT, we will go
through some safety of maintenance tips related
to these pool fences.
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Here is a list of some of the things you should
be doing
Are all the pool fence poles properly seated into
the sleeves in your pool deck?

• This step has to be taken if you have semi
  frameless pool fencing because poles will come
  only with that type of pool fences.
• In terms of totally frameless pool fencing, you
  need to inspect the spigots that are installed in
  the ground to hold glass panes.
• Coming back to poles, they should be checked for
  a number of things like rusting, dirt, grime,
  etc., their firmness in the ground and so on.

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• Then, they should also be checked whether they
  are holding the glass panes firmly or not and
  this has to be followed by cleaning that is
  generally done using a garden hose.
• All you have to do is to jet spray in the holes
  in the pools deck to ensure that all the dirt
  and grime is released from there.
• Once done, you can then, take a wet cloth to wipe
  away all the dirt present on the surface.

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Check all latch connection points for the entire
pool fencing system

• The next thing to check in pool fences is the
  latch connections and this has to be ensured that
  they are all in a good shape.
• According to the experts, the pool fences latches
  that one section to another should be connected
  firmly to the other section of the swimming pool
  fencing.

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• Other than this, these latches should be tight
  enough to ensure that a child or even a 10 year
  old kid could not open it.
• You should ensure that you are unable to open it
  with bare hands and if you could not, the
  toddlers will also not be able to open them.

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Check your self-closing, self-latching pool fence
gate for proper function

• A very important part to check in these swimming
  pool fencing is the self-latching pool gates and
  they should be inspected for their proper
  functioning.
• First up, you need to ensure that your pool fence
  gate automatically latches after each opening and
  that it self-closes.

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• Other than this, the hinges to have a very
  important role and thus, they deserve inspection
  as well and you can adjust the functioning speed
  of these hinges depending upon the requirements.
• Automatic latching of the gates of swimming pool
  fencing is very important because sometimes when
  the safety fence is removed and reinstalled the
  gate may not latch.

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Contact Us
Assured Glass Fencing Address- Unit 18/25/31
Airds Rd, Minto NSW 2566, Australia Phone No.
0412 414 845 www.assuredglassfencing.com