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Barriers for Residential Swimming Pool, Spas, and Hot Tubs The preceding explanations of the Application Swimming pool,indoor.A swimming U.S. Consumer Product Safety The guidelines presented in this document pool which is totally contained within a Commission's pool barrier guide- are intended to provide a means of protec- structure and surrounded on all four sides lines were provided in order to make it tion against potential drownings and near- by walls of said structure. easier for pool owners, purchasers, drownings to children under 5 years of builders,technicians and others to under- age by restricting access to residential Swimming pool,outdoor.Any swim- stand and apply the guidelines them- swimming pools,spas, and hot tubs. ming pool which is not an indoor pool. selves. Detailed guidelines follow. Reading the following guidelines in con- Guidelines junction with the diagrams previously Definitions provided may be especially helpful. For Aboveground/onground pool. See defi- Section I.Outdoor Swimming Pool further information,consult your local nition of swimming pool. building department or code authority. An outdoor swimming pool, including an Barrier.A fence, a wall, a building wall inground,aboveground,or onground pool, or a combination thereof which complete- hot tub,or spa,should be provided with a ly surrounds the swimming pool and barrier which complies with the obstructs access to the swimming pool. following: Hot tub. See definition of swimming 1.The top of the barrier should be at least pool. 48 inches above grade measured on the side of the barrier which faces away from: • Inground pool.See definition of swim- the swimming pool.The maximum verti ming pool. cal clearance between grade and the bot- tom of the barrier should be 4 inches Residential.That which is situated measured on the side of the barrier which on the premises of a detached one-or faces away from the swimming pool. two-family dwelling or a one-family Where the top of the pool structure is townhouse not more than three stories in above grade,such as an aboveground height. pool,the barrier may be at ground level, such as the pool structure,or mounted on Spa,nonportable.See definition of top of the pool structure. Where the barri- swimming pool, er is mounted on top of the pool structure, the maximum vertical clearance between Spa,portable.A non-permanent structure the top of the pool structure and the bot- intended for recreational bathing, in tom of the barrier should be 4 inches. which all controls,water-heating,and water-circulating equipment are an inte- 2.Openings in the barrier should not gral part of the product and which is cord- allow passage of a 4-inch diameter connected(not permanently electrically sphere. wired). 3.Solid barriers,which do not have open- Swimming pool.Any structure ings,such as a masonry or stone wall, intended for swimming or recreational should not contain indentations or protru- bathing that contains water over 24 inches sions except for normal construction tol- deep.This includes inground,above- erances and tooled masonry joints. ground,and onground swimming pools, hot tubs, and spas. • 6