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WINNING POOLS HAVE “WOW FACTOR” SAYS HERITAGE
The UK’s award winning residential indoor
pool of the year has what Brian Andrews
calls the “wow factor”.
Brian, Managing Director of Heritage
Pools was speaking after the company
won double gold in the Residential Indoor
Pool of the Year, and Indoor swimming
pool of the Year in the £75,000 – £150,000
category. The Residential Indoor
Swimming Pool of the Year, features a 11 x
5.5m pool, which was completed in 2008,
built inside a custom made barn and
featured an ‘EYE’ shaped spa, walk in
steps and automatic pool cover. Controls
were included to maintain the air and pool
temperatures at a desired level, and an
environmental package was integrated
into the build to maintain the relative
humidity to around 60%. This system
cleverly stops you feeling the cold when
An eye shaped spa added to the impressive
emerging from the pool to make you feel
finish of Heritage 11 metre x 5.5 metre winning
pool inside a converted barn
more like you would in the Mediterranean
or Caribbean than chilly England.
With so much air conditioning “The pool definitely has a certain Heritage Pools also won two bronze
equipment included in the build, Heritage amount of wow factor,” says Brian awards for a commercial hydrotherapy pool
had to work closely with the barn Andrews of Heritage Pools. “The design, and a private outdoor swimming pool that
constructors in order to make sure that materials, mosaic tiles and lighting all featured a concealed automatic pool cover.
none of the air distribution system was combine to make it a beautiful looking
invisible, concealing it under the pool pool and we are certainly very pleased
HERITAGE POOLS
surround with grilles positioned to ensure with the end result, so to receive these
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air distribution across all glazed areas. awards is the icing on the cake.”
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TWO GOLD WINNING INDOOR POOLS –
TWO VERY DIFFERENT PROBLEMS
The two gold winning pools from Cheshire, the pool had to include a In the other pool it wasn’t so much a
Southport based Portrait Pools both marble tiled automatic moving floor question of moving pools as moving
provided something of a challenge. which fed out into a bay outside the temperatures.
The company took double gold with two house. It was the second such moving The client wanted a tropical feel to
indoor pools – one in the category up to pool the company had constructed and everything which meant a lap pool with the
£75,000, the second in the category over provided a challenge. The floor environmental controls necessary to
£150,000. automatically moved clear in three provide 80% humidity as opposed to the
In the top-of-the-range pool built in minutes. more normal 60%.
THIS & ABOVE: Typically tropical – two images
of a pool area which met a special request from
A marbled-topped moving floor was the glamorous feature of Portrait Pools award winning entry
a client to provide a high humidity environment
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