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    • Hard cover you can walk on is best, but expensive.
    • Alarm is the cheapest and easiest to meet regs, but they can be flaky.
    • barrier has to be a certain height and distance irrc. It's s probably the best on balance, but the worst looking and requires drilling holes in the paving to fix the poles. But they're not especially obnoxious.

    He should already have one, and is liable if say a kid broke in and had an accident.

    If budget is a consideration and you're after safety rather than regs I'd be tempted to get an alarm and barrier. (assuming it can be relatively freely accessed by your daughter)

  • He’s in the UK. So I’m trying to use other regulations to work out what’s best for us to do.

    Given his initial starting point last year was a non life saving float vest and she’ll do it a couple of times before learning (lol) we’ve come a fair way to a suggested fence, where the poles are potentially removable.

    I think a cover might be best mind, I don’t understand the dislike for the aesthetic of a fence. Although he has a decking area around the pool which might make a weight bearing cover difficult.
    Also tricky as we don’t spend huge amounts of time there.

  • Ah OK, I didn't realise this was the UK and regulatory adherence wasn't a consideration.

    I don’t understand the dislike for the aesthetic of a fence.

    They look like this:

    Without worrying about regs and someone selling/fitting a regs compliant solution you've got a lot more freedom. So you could even have a nice looking hedge or something.

    Also the alarms are descret and removable and look like this

    If you need to convince him further look up the stats on pool related deaths pre the introduction.

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