Pool Surrounds, Fencing and Paving Removal in Mandurah

The pool is only half the demolition

Stand at the back fence of a 1990s canal-estate block in Mandurah and look at what surrounds the pool: 40-odd square metres of paving, concrete coping bedded on mortar, a raised limestone-block planter or two, and a safety fence that's been eating salt air since it went up. When the pool goes, all of that either goes with it or stands around a patch of new sand looking exactly like what it is — leftovers.

That's why surrounds are quoted as part of the inground or above ground removal from the start, not discovered as a variation on day two. What the combined job typically costs is on the What It Costs page.

What comes out

• Safety fencing — tubular aluminium, frameless and semi-frameless glass, and the old pine-and-wire barriers still standing around 1980s pools; posts pulled or cut, footings dug out
• Coping — bullnose brick, concrete or limestone edging around the shell
• Paving and concrete aprons — pavers lifted, slabs broken and carted, bedding sand removed where the new surface needs it gone
• Timber pool decks — boards, joists and stumps
• Small extras in the pool zone — solar heating straps off the pergola, equipment slabs, the filter enclosure

What's included, what's not, what it depends on

Included:

• All breaking, lifting, loading, cartage and tip fees
• Concrete and clean masonry sorted to a recycler where practical rather than dumped as mixed waste
• Ground raked level where the surrounds came out

Not included:

• New paving, decking, turf or garden beds — that's your landscaper, working on a clean site
• Electrical work on pool lighting or equipment circuits — your electrician, first

What it depends on:

• Salt-area corrosion. Close to the estuary and ocean — Wannanup, San Remo, Madora Bay, Golden Bay — fence fixings are often corroded solid, which changes dismantling from unbolting to cutting. It's a time factor, not a drama.
• What's underneath. Paving on sand lifts fast; paving on a reinforced concrete apron is a breaking job with real tonnage.
• What stays. A boundary-line pool fence panel sometimes doubles as the dividing fence — that panel stays and gets flagged in the quote.

The fence comes down last — that's the law, not a preference

Under the Building Regulations 2012 (WA), a compliant barrier is required around anything holding more than 300 mm of water, right up until the pool can't. On a full removal the sequence is fixed: shell out or breached, hole backfilled and compacted, then the barrier comes down and the council is notified in writing so the property leaves the four-yearly barrier inspection register and the fee leaves the rates. Permits and notification steps are laid out on the Approvals page.

We ask the contractors we work with to hold the relevant WorkSafe WA licences and public liability cover — ask to see them.

Straight answers

• Fence, paving and pool in one quote? Yes — that's the point of this page.
• Keep some paving? Fine. The saw-cut line is agreed on the walk-through and put in writing.
• Just a fence swap on a working pool? That's a fencing installer's job, not ours — we'll say so rather than quote it badly.

Call (08) 9516 1339 and describe what's around the pool, not just the pool — the quote will match what's actually in the yard.