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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Infinity pool fencing laws are 'crazy' and 'stupid', industry claims Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:10 pm | |
| A new rule requiring infinity pools to be fenced to prevent children climbing up over the invisible edge of pool walls has been described as "crazy", "stupid" and "illogical" by the pool industry.
NSW's $31 million infinity pool industry has come to a standstill because of a change in the building code that said "out of the ground pool wall" (the wall of the pool where the water appears to disappear) of a minimum height of 1.2 metres could no longer be considered an effective barrier.
NSW is the only place not just in Australia, but in the world, that deems these pool walls to be illegal.
One Sydney council insisted on fencing the base of six-metre high pylons, to stop children from climbing up to enter an infinity pool that jutted out over a cliff face.
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