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Removable Swimming Pool Safety Fencing

Bill Jasper from the Baby Barrier Pool Fence Company joins Bob for the installation of the removable Baby Barrier that will add a layer of protection for young children around the pool. Vertical aluminum poles with steel inserts for strengthening are set in the pool deck to receive the barrier panels. Jasper explains how the construction exceeds code requirements that state the fence be able to withstand more than 53 pounds of pressure. This fencing can withstand up to 80 pounds of direct pressure and has a latching gate that is child-proof by design. The panels themselves are PVC-coated wire mesh. The cost for the full installation with a ten-year warranty is between $1,500 and $2,000.
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Removable Swimming Pool Safety Fencing

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" One nifty tool for drilling holes in our pool deck. For one very important reason and bill Jasper is here from the baby barrier pool fence company to explain what this is all Bob let's let's come over here is. We have such a beautiful pool. And we have a beautiful. Pool cages they call -- role and I. But one of the key things that we have to worry about is protecting this pool from. Child victims."

" Yes Bob the leading cause of death for children under five is drowning in the backyard swimming pool. None -- late night and early the Atlantic Ocean not in the Pacific. In the backyard swimming pool. "

" And having a pool cover is not necessarily so the solution is it no sir no sir primarily a pool cover is for debris yeah to keep -- Jolene. Not for children and on to slide and Jose -- then they also can. And walked down in or crawl down into the center which will gather water so drown in inches you and your company addressed this issue a long time ago when did you start making these 1960 three's company restarted right here in punta gorda okay. And it's essentially the simplest concept in the world but let's look closely at how it's fabricated."

" I mean obviously these verticals go into the holes that we were just drill. We use the strongest pole in the industry. Thorough search for dinosaurs -- with the pull the pole itself what is it made out of aluminum. OK it also has a seven inch insert in the bottom -- question of strength of steel insert a steel insert okay and in the state of Florida requirement is. Is -- 36 inches off the deck bridges -- here right it must withstand 53 pounds of pressure no pressure against our poles will withstand eighty pounds of pressure in her room well over the code of the state of war and these hooks are not just ordinary -- their safety organized right -- rigidity makes it virtually impossible for the child. They number one have to be opera this time. Because there on this before off the deck yeah. But they've got the pole on here on this latch and lift up at the same time in order for which a two year old three year old four year old Kim do simply cannot yet. And then what about the actual. Mesh here that we're looking at the mesh is -- two at PVC coated mesh. Which also has to withstand certain certain restraints from the standpoint of potential strength air strength. What you have a hole in this it can't rip out. And room and it's it's a it's doing its thing. PVC coated mesh OK strongest and the best in the industry and so what we're doing here in terms of our installation. Is following the contours fool right. That's correct David isn't is installing the fence and one of the great things about our fence it is temporary if you want to have a adult party. -- kids very it's someone else's home you can remove this or install in the matter mess yeah."

" And in Florida many of the situations are grandparents. So we just have toddlers visiting for holiday weekends or whatever so this is something that can be. Put up and taken down as needed speed and -- OK that's so simple now what about the cost of this particular yeah."

" They were range because we have four different kinds of measures. He said they were arranged and here in Florida we normally only have fifty to sixty feet of mesh easy whereas in Boston or New York we'll have a 101 which is the average pool going around because we don't have these cages up north. Typically the price from their friends of the customer will be somewhere between 1502000. -- OK install instantly installed with a ten year warranty on our product."

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