Barrier inspection and report
We measure the height, the gaps, the ground clearance, the latch and the arc, and you get a photographed defect list the same day — one flat fee whatever we find.
from$220flat
Canning Vale · south-east metro & the coast
Will your pool fence pass?Barrier Line Pool Safety — pool barrier inspections, repairs and new barriers across Perth’s south-east and down to Mandurah.
AS 1926.1-2012 strikes a 900 mm arc from the top of your barrier. Anything standing inside that arc is a foothold, and the barrier has to grow to clear it. Swing the arc over your own fence below.
- Since 2009 — 4,100 barriers measured
- BC00000 registered building contractor
- $20m public liability
1,450 mm barrier, 14 m — $4,069
900 mm — the non-climbable zone The non-climbable zone. AS 1926.1-2012 swings a 900 mm arc from the top of the barrier, on the outside. Nothing a child can stand on may sit inside it.
What do you need
Barrier height1,450 mm
1,450 mmset by the arc
We’d build to1,450 mmset by the 900 mm arc, not by us
What is beside the fence600 mm
600 mma retaining wall
How far from the fence300 mm
300 mmmeasured to the near face
Barrier type
Length of barrier14 m
14 mrun of new barrier
Self-closing gates
What it comes toNew barrier
The drawing, in words
This is the same arc your local government’s inspector swings, but theirs is the one on the certificate. We measure yours before we quote, and we tell you if the answer is that the fence has to move.
What we do
Six jobs, and the price of each before we come out.
Every figure below is what the estimator above can actually produce — the cheapest thing we do is the $220 inspection, and that is the floor on this page.
Repairs to an existing barrier
Loose panels, worn hinges, a gate that no longer swings shut from any position, a bottom gap that has opened up as the ground has moved. Priced by the metre of the run we work on.
from$74a metre
New frameless glass barrier
12 mm toughened panels on stainless spigots, core-drilled or base-plated. The clean answer where the barrier is the view, and the one people put in when a wall has to come out.
from$690a metre
New flat-top aluminium barrier
Powder-coated flat-top panels, 16 mm verticals at 90 mm clear, and the bottom rail kept inside the panel so there is no toe hold. The workhorse, and the one that goes up tallest without looking like a compound.
from$185a metre
Gate replacement
A self-closing, self-latching gate that shuts from any position it is let go of, with the latch release above 1,500 mm. This is the single most common thing an inspector writes up.
from$580fitted
Certificate paperwork and lodgement
We prepare the pool-barrier paperwork and book your local government’s inspection. Their inspector signs the compliance, not us — we just make sure nothing on the list is still open when they arrive.
from$180per job
- Since 20094,100 barriers measured across the south-east metro and the coast.
- BC00000Registered building contractor. ABN 00 000 000 408.
- $20m public liabilityAnd every measurement taken to AS 1926.1-2012.
- We do not certifyYour local government inspects every barrier at least once in four years. That inspector is the one who signs.
Demo reviews
Three people who had a list they didn’t understand.
Three defects on the notice and I understood none of them. Marta drew the arc over the retaining wall on her tablet in the driveway and the whole thing made sense in about a minute. The wall stayed; the fence went to 1,450.
Settlement in four weeks and a barrier nobody had looked at since the pool went in. Inspected on the Tuesday, gate and two panels done on the Thursday, paperwork lodged Friday. No drama, no upsell.
They told me the honest answer was that the fence line had to move, and that they’d rather say it than take the money. Cost me a quote from someone else to find out they were right.
Where we work
South-east metro, then straight down the coast.
Canning Vale is the yard. Everything from Willetton to Byford is a same-week inspection; the coast run from Kwinana to Mandurah goes out on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Same-week inspections
- Canning Vale
- Willetton
- Thornlie
- Southern River
- Harrisdale
- Piara Waters
- Canning Vale East
- Armadale
- Byford
- Success
- Cockburn Central
Coast run — Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Kwinana
- Rockingham
- Baldivis
- Secret Harbour
- Golden Bay
- Mandurah
Outside this? Ring us anyway — if we are already out that way we will fit you in, and if we are not we will say so.
Book it
Tell us what you have and we will bring the tape.
An inspection is $220 and takes about forty minutes. If you already have a defect notice, photograph it and bring it up when we call — half the list is usually the gate.
Thanks — we’d call you back within one business day.
You would get a text with a two-hour window and the name of whoever is coming. If you have a defect notice, have it handy.
This is a demonstration page, so nothing was actually sent. On the real build this drops straight into ServiceM8 as a booking with the suburb, the pool type and the note already on the job card.
What happens on the day
We measure the effective height on the outside, every gap, the ground clearance, the latch height and the gate’s swing — and then we swing the arc off the top of the barrier over everything within 900 mm of it.
You get the list, the photographs and a price against each line. If nothing needs doing we say so and you have paid $220 to find out, which is the point of the fee.
We do not issue the compliance. Your local government inspects every pool barrier at least once every four years under the Building Regulations 2012, and their inspector is the one who signs it off.
Straight answers
Six things we get asked in the driveway.
How often does the council actually inspect?
At least once every four years. Under the Building Regulations 2012 (WA) your local government has to inspect every private pool and spa barrier in its district on a four-yearly cycle, and most of them run it as a rolling program suburb by suburb. You will get a letter. Some councils charge an annual inspection fee on the rates notice for it.
Our $220 inspection is not that inspection and it is not a substitute for it — it is us finding the list before they do.
What does an inspector actually check?
The measurements in AS 1926.1-2012: an effective barrier height of at least 1,200 mm measured on the outside, gaps between verticals no more than 100 mm, no more than 100 mm between the bottom of the barrier and the ground, a gate that swings shut and latches from any position it is released from, a latch release at least 1,500 mm above the ground, and the 900 mm non-climbable zone struck from the top of the barrier on the outside. AS 1926.2 covers where the barrier is allowed to run.
The gate is the most commonly written-up item, by a distance.
What is the non-climbable zone, in plain English?
Stand outside the fence, put a tape on the top of it, and swing a 900 mm arc down and out. Anything inside that arc that a small child could stand on — a retaining wall, a garden bed edge, the aircon unit, a pot, a bench, the neighbour’s letterbox — is a foothold, and the barrier has to be tall enough that the top of that object falls outside the arc.
That is what the drawing at the top of this page does, in millimetres, at true scale. It is also why moving a pot two hundred millimetres is sometimes a cheaper fix than anything we could sell you.
I am selling. What do I need?
Talk to your settlement agent about what your contract requires — we are not lawyers and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is get the barrier measured and the defect list closed out before your buyer’s inspection turns it into a price negotiation two days out from settlement.
Tell us the settlement date when you call. A gate and a couple of panels is usually a two-day turnaround; a new barrier is two to three weeks with glass on order.
My gate is the problem. What is the standard?
It has to swing outwards away from the pool, close and latch by itself from any position you let it go — including from 10 mm off the latch — and the latch release has to be at least 1,500 mm above the ground, or shielded if it is lower. Hinges wear and springs sag, so a gate that passed four years ago frequently does not now.
Gate replacement starts at $580 fitted. Rehanging and re-springing an otherwise sound gate falls under the $74 a metre repair rate.
Does a spa need a barrier?
If it can hold more than 300 mm of water, the Building Regulations 2012 treat it the same as a pool and it needs a barrier. A spa with a lockable, rigid, child-resistant cover that meets the standard can be an alternative in some circumstances — that is a conversation with your local government’s building surveyor, not something we would sign off on the phone.
Portable and inflatable pools count too, and they are the ones people forget.
This is a demonstration build by Sapience Analytics.
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