Swimming pool repairs
NSW Fair Trading
Information about a licence or certificate in swimming pool repairs and servicing.
You must have a licence before you do any residential building work in NSW, including swimming pool repairs and servicing, valued at more than $5000 (incl GST) in labour and materials.
Swimming pool repairs and servicing means work to fix or maintain parts of an existing swimming pool.
This includes work on internally reticulated pool plumbing that is not connected to a potable water source, solar thermal heating systems that are not hard-wired (excluding any solar photovoltaic (PV) systems), and installing equipment including filters and skimmers.
It also includes non-structural additions, changes and repairs; painting and surfacing (rendering or applying surface coatings) of a swimming pool; and acid washing and pool cleaning.
Swimming pool repairs and servicing doesn't include any work related to paving, decking, landscaping or fencing for a pool or spa.
A swimming pool is defined under the Swimming Pools Act 1992 as ‘an excavation, structure or vessel’:
that can be filled with water to a depth more than 300 millimetres, and
that is only or mainly used, or that is designed, manufactured or adapted to be only or mainly used, for swimming, wading, paddling or any other human aquatic activity.
It includes a spa pool, but does not include a spa bath or anything in a bathroom.
To learn more about what is considered swimming pool repairs and servicing, see the
definition in schedule 4 of the Home Building Regulation 2014
