It has now become a regulation to fence your pool due to the many unfortunate incidents of children suffering injuries or drowning. It is recommended that you install a glass pool fence, because it not only offers pool safety but it also looks great.

Pools are meant to provide fun and excitement but when not safely fenced around then they become danger zones for our children. You have the option of fencing your pool with wood or glass. As a responsible parent you need to keep your pool area safe. It is vitally important to fence off your pool to avoid your kids jumping in without your supervision. To the kids, the pool is a place to jump in and have lots of fun, oblivious to the fact that they put themselves in danger to a certain extent. You can avoid all this by fencing off your pool.

Glass pool fencing makes the best choice to have, for all your safety requirements. By fencing off your pool with high quality glass fences, you ensure that your children are protected. Glass pool fences are the best choice because they are difficult to climb over. If you have kids then you should know that they climb over anything.

Unlike wooden fences, glass fences cannot be climbed over, thus making them the best choice for all your safety needs. They keep your children from accessing the pool without your supervision. They are also tough and durable and very easy to maintain. All you need to do with glass fences is wipe them down once in a while and you will barely notice that there is a fence around your pool. You can even get your kids to help you wipe them down.

On top of that, these glass fences cannot be knocked down, chipped away or wear away due to sunlight or rain. Wooden fences eventually fade and wear out which will not be a pleasant sight for your property. Glass pool fence will not have such issue, which makes their maintenance very manageable.

With everything in mind, you need to make sure that you hire experts to install your glass fence in a professional manner because you need to guarantee not only your safety but that of your kids as well. Glass fences are creams of the crop and quality is guaranteed.

The glass used is tough enough to withstand the strongest blows and so you should not worry or fear about your kids smashing the glass. The glass used undergoes rigorous testing to make sure it can withstand anything hurled at it. This means that you can rest easy, knowing that not only will your glass fence keep your children out of the pool but it will also not be shattered from whatever they throw at it.

Make it a point to purchase great quality pool fencing sydney which is safe, functions well and still looks great. Out fencing is tried and tested and proven to be safe.

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Glass that is channel fixed means that it has been fixed into a channel, usually concrete.

The concreters first form the channel when they pour the concrete.

After the concrete has hardened, we sit our glass in the channel, and grout it into the channel.

The paver then paves right up to the glass.

This gives the impression of the glass coming out of the concrete.

Glass FX is a glass pool fencing company that services Sydney and surrounding Regional areas as far as New England in the north to Canberra and NSW South Coast.

We specialise in frameless glass pool fencing and our team of experienced professionals are ready to help you make the right decision on your pool fencing needs.

We would be happy to help with any technical questions you may have on the best type of fixing for your property.

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Standoff fixings are 38mm or 50mm diameter fixings that are side-mounted into decks and concrete slabs, actually holding the glass down past the outside of the deck or balcony.

This type of fixing holds the glass 30-50ml off the surface with a spacer.

Standoff fixings are a little bit more expensive, because there is a bit more glass involved.

They generally more commonly used for balconies and balustrading.

Glass FX is a glass pool fencing company that services Sydney and surrounding Regional areas as far as New England in the north to Canberra and NSW South Coast.

We specialise in frameless glass pool fencing and our team of experienced professionals are ready to help you make the right decision on your pool fencing needs.

We would be happy to help with any technical questions you may have on the best type of fixing for your property.

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Spigot Fixing is a 316 Marine grade stainless steel fixing, which comes in two fixings.

One kind is core-drilled into concrete paving footing.

The other fixing type is a base-mounted spigot which has a flange that is fixed down to timber decks, steel beams, etc.

Spigot fixing is our recommended fixing, firstly as there are a range of different spigots, both round and square, and also because it means that the glass is suspended 50mm off the ground.

This means it lets leaves and dust blow underneath the glass – in other words, you don’t have a gathering of leaves in the corner of your glass fencing.

With other types of fixings, the bottom 100mm of glass becomes dirty after it rains, and that’s the hardest place to clean.

All our hardware has been tested for quality.

Glass FX is a glass pool fencing company that services Sydney and surrounding Regional areas as far as New England in the north to Canberra and NSW South Coast.

We specialise in frameless glass pool fencing and our team of experienced professionals are ready to help you make the right decision on your pool fencing needs.

We take our responsibility very seriously, and we are available to help with any technical question you may have.

For more information on Frameless Glass, our patented Safety Hinge, our company, and the safety benefits of Glass Fencing, contact us.

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Glass pool fencing is very durable. If the right materials are used, and it is installed well, a glass fence will last 3 to 4 times longer than a conventional fence.

Not to mention the maintenance is easy. All you have to do to glass is give it a clean, and it looks like brand new again.

A glass pool fence is also very safe, because is is hard for young kids to climb.

The danger with pool fencing in Australia up until now is that there hasn’t been a dedicated piece of hardware for glass pool fencing gates available on the market. Or at least, there hasn’t been a pool gate hinge specifically designed for outdoor use that has been certified according to Australian standards.

Most hinges and self closing systems commonly used in Australia aren’t designed for glass pool fencing, let alone outdoors – and therefore simply aren’t suitable – or safe.

This means they rust, and therefore, they fail; potentially putting our children’s lives at risk.

It’s only since glass fencing has becoming so popular in the domestic market that it’s become more and more apparent that there are a lot of fences out there that simply aren’t safe.

Most people don’t know about the Australian Standard 2820, which says that a glass gate on a pool fence should last for at least 10,000 cycles without failing. This is equivalent to about 10 years use of a standard domestic pool fence.

Most of the other hinging systems that are being used in the market, frankly, would not pass that test.

This is another reason why most other manufacturers are only willing to back their products with a 12 month warranty. This is equivalent to only 1000 cycles – a far cry short of the 10,000 cycles required by the Australian Standard, not to mention massively short of the years of use that most home-owners expect to, and should, get out of their glass pool fencing and gate.

As far as safety is concerned, not to mention durability and longevity, by far the most important part of the pool fencing is the hinging.

If the hinges don’t close the glass gate, the latch can’t work, and the gate will stay open – endangering young lives.

Some pool fencing installers have even been using a public toilet door hinge, that’s just not designed for glass. Although the manufacturers have created some plates to enable it to be fitted to glass, because it’s only spring loaded, that means the glass gate will come back and slam.

A glass pool gate ideally needs to be tensioned up hard enough that it will close from 100mm away. With the wrong hinge, if you open the gate right up to it’s extent, it will just slam. Definitely not ideal for a glass pool fencing scenario!

The other commonly used traditional type of closing up till now is a floor closer. You will have seen this type of in-floor door closer in shopping centers.

This type of closure uses a steel plate on the floor, and 2 inches into the ground sits a hydraulic cast iron box that’s got a spring and hydraulics in it, that controls the closing.

Again, these sorts of gate closures haven’t been made for outdoor use. If you used this sort of closing mechanism around the pool, you’d have to dig a hole into the pavers or tiles, sink the hydraulics box into into it, and to try and make it weatherproof.

Although manufacturers have experimented with workarounds such as pouring 2-pack resin into the box, to fill the whole box, this doesn’t work to waterproof it. The water gets in, and affects the bearings that can’t be sealed. And then the gate closure doesn’t work properly.

Adjustment screws usually need adjusting before the 10,000 cycles test. But once resin is poured in, the space you would normally have to adjust the screws no longer exists as it has been filled and is therefore inaccessible.

Most of the glass industry would agree that this sort of gate hinge is very problematic, difficult to install, and won’t last.

Another hinge has recently come to the market is one which is imported from Italy.

It’s actually an internal door hinge, and one the manufacturers won’t even endorse for outdoors, and of course it hasn’t been tested, either.

We designed our patented Magna-Hinge pool fence hinge specifically to fill this gap in the market.

We even went and had it independently tested at a laboratory to make sure we passed the 10,000 cycle test – which of course we did. We also won an Australian Design Mark award for our product, which was released in November last year.

And as far as I know, we are the only glass hardware company that has our own specific glass pool fence hinge – let alone one that has even been tested!

We believe that the Magna-Hinge is absolutely imperative to pool safety in Australia, not to mention being the best value and longest lasting hinge on the market.

What we would like you to do, no matter which glass manufacturer or installation company you choose to use, is to insist that your supplier or installer can provide a hinge that has been designed for outdoor use, and complies with the Australian standard 2820.

Our childens’ lives depend on it.

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Glass FX specialise in 12mm toughened safety glass. The fixing options are all 316 marine grade stainless steel.

The benefits of using glass fencing are priceless; you get unobstructed views of the pool area, giving peace of mind; your children will have difficulty in climbing over the glass panels; and if you have a panoramic view, it will add to your pleasure.

Glass FX only use the Magna-Hinge gate hardware to comply to Australian standards. The Magna–Hinge is especially designed for the outdoors and the safety of your friends and family, with its self closing feature.

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Our patented Magna-Hinge is the only certified Australian glass pool fencing hinging system that has been independently tested by a NATA-accredited laboratory.

We are proud to say that the Magna-Hinge has passed the non-stop 10,000 cycle test, which is equivalent to 10 years in the life of the average domestic swimming pool gate. This means it is fully compliant with Australian Standard 2820.

The Magna Hinge is fully certified, and has a unique self-closing, soft-closing mechanism that reduces both possible injury and aggressive closure of the gate.

Other hinge manufacturers will only give you 12 months guarantee.

Our hinge is certified for 10,000 cycles – the equivalent of ten years of normal use.

If you choose a Magna-Hinge for your glass pool fencing, you can be assured that you are buying quality, safety, and Australian standards certification.

You also have our guarantee that our Australian made, Australian designed award-winning Magna-Hinge will outlast any other glass pool fence hinge currently available on the market.

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All our glass is custom made and precision ‘cut to order’ at our factory at Five Dock. We service all the Sydney metropolitan area from the mountains to the sea, including Newcastle and Canberra.

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