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Timber Fence Installation
The full job: measure, remove the old fence if there is one, set out the line, dig and concrete the posts, fix the rails and palings, hang the gates and clean up.
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Timber Pool Fencing
Timber fencing around pool areas, built to the requirements that apply to your property, confirmed before work starts.
Timber fencing in and around pool areas. Because pool barriers are regulated, what is required is established for your specific property rather than assumed.
Read this part first
A swimming pool barrier is a regulated safety structure, not a style choice. In New South Wales, pool barriers are governed by legislation and by the applicable Australian Standard, and what is required for your pool depends on your property, your pool and when it was built.
Requirements change over time and vary from property to property. For that reason we do not publish a list of barrier rules on this page, and we do not tell you that a particular fence will be compliant before anyone has seen your property.
Compliance is assessed and certified by your local council or an accredited certifier. We build the fence; the certifier confirms the barrier.
How we approach pool area fencing
The workable approach is to establish the requirements first and build to them, rather than build a fence and hope it passes.
- Establish what applies to your property and your pool before anything is quoted in detail
- Where you already have advice from your council or a certifier, work to that
- Where you do not, point you to who can confirm it before work is scheduled
- Build the fence and any gates to the requirements that have been established
- Leave the certification of the barrier to your council or certifier
Gates in a pool area
Gates are the part of a pool barrier that gets the most attention from certifiers, because a gate is the part that opens.
How a pool area gate has to behave, including its hardware and the direction it opens, is set by the requirements that apply to your property. Those requirements drive how the gate is built and what hardware goes on it, so they are established before the gate is made.
Timber fencing elsewhere around a pool
Not every fence near a pool forms part of the pool barrier. Plenty of timber fencing around pool areas is boundary and privacy fencing that sits outside the barrier itself.
That distinction matters, because it changes what applies. Part of the site measure is working out which fences are barrier and which are not, so each one is built appropriately.
Timber Pool Fencing — our work
Photographs from our own jobs across Sydney.
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Treated pine timber fence enclosing a paved outdoor living area with lounge seating at a Sydney home
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Treated pine timber sleeper retaining wall holding back soil to create a level area at a Sydney property
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Treated pine timber fence bordering a low maintenance yard with artificial turf at a Sydney home
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Tall treated pine timber privacy fence built along a rear boundary at a Sydney property
Timber Pool Fencing questions
Can a timber fence be used as a pool fence?
Timber fencing is built around pool areas, but whether a particular fence satisfies pool barrier requirements depends on your property, your pool and the requirements that apply to it. That is established before work starts, and the barrier is certified by your council or an accredited certifier.
What are the pool fence requirements in NSW?
Pool barrier requirements are set by NSW legislation and the applicable Australian Standard, and they depend on the property and the pool, including when it was built. We deliberately do not publish a generic list here, because a generic answer can be wrong for your property. Your council or an accredited certifier can confirm what applies.
Do you certify pool fence compliance?
No. We build the fence. Compliance of a pool barrier is assessed and certified by your local council or an accredited certifier.
Is all timber fencing near my pool part of the pool barrier?
Not necessarily. Some fencing near a pool is boundary or privacy fencing rather than part of the barrier. Working out which is which is part of the site measure, because it changes what applies to each fence.
Free site measure & quote
Get timber pool fencing quoted
Send the details and a few photos of the site. You will get an estimate based on what is actually there, and a free on-site measure before any work starts.
NSW Fencing Licence 269038C · ABN 76 612 245 594