The four-inch rule
No gap anywhere on the line — mesh, gate or house wall — passes a four-inch sphere. That is the code test, and we walk the exact sphere the inspector brings down the exact line they will walk.
Gates that close themselves
Every pool gate self-closes and self-latches from any angle, with the release mounted at 54 inches on the pool side — the height a child’s reach does not find and an adult’s hand does.
Hardware graded for water
Marine-grade stainless hinges and magnetic latches rated for ten thousand wet-handed cycles — pool hardware fails from rust and slamming long before mesh ever wears out, so ours is sized for neither.
What we do
Three barriers, one standard
Removable mesh barrier — from $19/ln ft
The seasonal standard: reinforced mesh panels on aluminum poles at 36-inch centres with a self-closing gate in the run. Rolls up for the off-season in an afternoon, goes back up square, and the deck sleeves cap flush for bare feet in winter.
Ornamental aluminum, pool-rated — from $56/ln ft
The permanent line: powder-coated panels with picket spacing under four inches, racked to the patio grade, and a gate that passes the self-close test from a whisper of a push. The fence that looks like landscaping and reads like a barrier.
Frameless tempered glass — from $168/ln ft
Half-inch tempered panels on stainless spigots for the view lines — the barrier that disappears in the photographs and still passes the sphere test at every seam. Pool-rated hardware throughout, marine finish on every bolt.
What we hold every line to
Safety, in numbers
These are not aspirations — they are the pass marks on the checklist we hand you at install, signed, with our result beside the test the county will run.
Verano Shores · Larkspur Key · 2024–2026
Barriers from both shores
Photographed a season after install, when the cheap mesh has sagged and the cheap latches have stopped closing. Ours have not.
How it goes
Measure to first swim
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 1
The measure visit
Every span measured at the deck, the patio slope noted, and the gate placed where the towels actually walk. Code asks for a plan; we draw it and leave you the copy.
Days 2–3
The engineering sheet
Panel schedule, pole spacing, latch heights and the self-closing specification on one page, with the fixed price attached — and the county permit filed when the barrier requires one.
Install day
Set, tension, test
Poles or panels into sleeved holes, mesh tensioned, gates hung, and every self-closer tested from every angle while the four-inch sphere walks the line. You sign the checklist we tested against.
Every spring
The season re-check
Mesh lines come down and go back up; we re-tension and re-test every one under the warranty — free, for as long as you own the pool.
The inspector walked the line with his sphere, opened the gate an inch and let go — and it closed and latched all four times. He asked who installed it. That is the whole review, really: the county’s own checklist, passed on the first walk.
The poolside questions
Does my pool legally need a fence?
In this county, yes — any pool over 24 inches of water needs a barrier on all four sides with a self-closing, self-latching gate. We build to the barrier code the inspector carries, and the checklist we hand you mirrors it line for line.
Mesh or aluminum — which one?
Mesh is the seasonal answer: it comes down when the kids grow and goes back up square. Aluminum is the permanent one that reads like landscaping. Both pass the same sphere test, and we quote both off the same measure visit — the yard decides.
Can we take the mesh down in winter?
That is the point of it — an afternoon, no tools, and the deck sleeves cap flush so bare feet never find them. It goes back up square because the poles key to their sleeves, and the spring re-tension is under the warranty.
What about the spa and the dog?
The spa needs its own barrier or a locked cover depending on the code year; the dog, honestly, needs the fence more than the pool does. We barrier the whole water plan in one line and one quote.
Measure visits within 48 hours on both shores · installed in a day · spring re-tension under warranty · (555) 390-2846 · swim@stillwaterpoolfence.example
Stillwater Pool Fence Co. · Lic. #PF-1041 · spring re-tension under warranty, every year you own the pool · swim@stillwaterpoolfence.example · 18 Breakwater Row, Verano Shores