It was not that difficult to do, you just have to plan really carefully. I had about the same size fence you described, ~250 linear feet, 5' high aluminum, black in color. A fence installer may or may not know (hence our gates being installed backwards). You should read up on these code concerns for yourself to see if they apply in your situation. The fence, if metal, might have to be tied into your pool's bonding grid. There is probably a stile-spacing code (to prevent a child from getting his/her head stuck).ĥ. Code requires 54" height fence around pool.Ĥ. I had the gates flipped when I had the grout removed.īuilding code considerations (read these with an "I'm pretty sure" qualifier at the beginning):ġ. Building codes mandate (typically) that the gates should swing out of the pool area. The gates were installed such that they swung into the pool area. A couple of years later more posts were loose, so I had someone dig out the grout from all posts and replace with cement.Ģ. I had someone dig out the grout from the loose posts and replace with cement. After a couple of years some posts, particularly the gate posts, became loose. Either the grout deteriorated or the posts were not sufficient immobile while the grout was setting. The fence looks good and is still in good shape.ġ. Total length was about 60-70' with 10-12 posts. It seemed to take longer than they expected. The biggest time cost was coring 10-12 4-5" holes in our concrete pool deck. It took a crew of 3 guys two full days to install it. I think we got model CP-4 in residential grade 54" high. You need to make sure a lot of measurements correct at the same time, both before and after the concrete goes in (and sets, obviously.) There's not much room for error, at least not with the 8' fence sections I'm used to.Ībout 10 years ago we had this fence installed around two sides of our pool (had existing wood fence privacy fence on other two sides) along with two gates. and repeating a dozen times, especially assuming you're doing this by yourself without help. There's a lot of sticking the post in the hole, measuring, tweaking. Maybe it's just me but getting the post alignment and spacing just right seems to be very difficult. In any case I've installed fences and one of the biggest issues is drilling holes in the ground, and those aren't going to be 1" holes (although I wish they could be.) I guess I have no idea what kind of fence this is, because I don't know what anyone would use a 1" drill bit for when installing a fence. I need to price out the materials and see if this is worth my time. Wondering if anyone else has done this? I'm a DIY'er and have done many hardscape projects in our yard (patios, walkways, etc.). I'm toying with the idea of buying the materials and doing this myself. Quotes have been anywhere from 9K - 14K (for appox 250 feet) of black aluminum fence. I'm shocked at how expensive some of the quotes have been for pool fence and installation. TRC wrote:We're wrapping up our in-ground swimming pool contsruction and are in the final stages of landscaping and selecting pool fence.
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