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APRIL 2009
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THE GOOD NEWS
Devon dealership lifts the gloom
inside
One-piece pools set for r
ecord year
Spaform and Sundance Spas ar
e back
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A REAL SAUNA EXPERIENCE
square7 SPATEX SURVEY square7 CONCRETE POOLS
square7 POLYOLEFIN FOAM
LEAPFROG ACCESSORIES
SLIDAWAY POOL ENCLOSURES
square7 POOL HEATERS
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How about some good news for a change? Stories and images from behind Britain’s
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Believe it or not there’s more of it about
award winning pools 30
than you might think.
SPATEX 2009 –
Take for example the Devon dealership
a story of what might have been 38
of H2O whose Exeter showroom is one of
Trade urges organisers to make changes
for 2010 show 41
the finest in the UK. Now a second is
Automatic covers – the benefits make sales
opening in Barnstable with words which
immune to any downturn 53
should offer hope to other dealers.
H2O brings a smile back
Area Sales Manager Becky Kirk says:
to the face of the trade 59
“We are noticing a change. We are seeing One-piece pools capture the public’s
more families come in. They don’t need imagination for 2009 71
credit and they don’t haggle on price.”
Or at the Alfresco Life dealership in
Features
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Macclesfield, Cheshire whose record year Let’s raise the bar in swimming pool design 37
last year has given Glenn Squire the
The soft touch – is it the future
confidence to bring back the Sundance
of swimming pool designs 42
Spas range into full national operation.
Pool heater market in a state of flux 44
Or award winning pool construction
Leapfrog – new pool accessories arrive
with ambition and hope 47
companies who tell us hard work and top
Sensational pools from concrete ideas –
designs are paying off with strong order
a look at the market 48
books and enquiries.
Top end of the hot tub market
Or at Teuco Guzzini, the Italian luxury
stays buoyant say distributors 59
bathroom and spa company which is to A real sauna experience – SPN travels
take over direct responsibility for the to Sweden to the heat and cold 64
marketing and development of the
Chlorine to the fore as water quality
comes under threat 68
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Spaform range of spas in the UK, bringing
fresh life into the brand which has been
Profile on Slidaway Enclosures –
through some turbulent times but which
smooth operators! 78
Photometry – time for new technology 88
has a fantastic customer brand loyalty.
Of course times are tougher than the
Regulars
trade has known before but the odd
News 6 to 26
glimmer of good news does work wonders.
Product news 29
The final word goes to Robin Ellis at the
World news 80
SPATEX show with his new Leapfrog
company and range of pool accessories.
“I’ve been very impressed by the hard
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work and determination of the trade. For
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the first time it’s a question of everybody
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getting off their backsides and working.”
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