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FINISHING
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There are now more options for adding value and style around the pool as
architects and pool builders turn to new tiling and surface finishing
materials. While traditional tiles become more sophisticated there’s a new
generation of ways of finishing pools which give a cost effective new look
THIS & RIGHT: Recent award winning pools
have used new style pool finishes and tiling
expertise to raise the quality of the
completed look
nce upon a time the choices and dated tiling, are looking for new
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The Craig Bragdy way – designs are drawn
for pool tiles were limited to innovation which will provide permanency into the clay and detail added gradually until
the bluntly mundane or and costs savings.
ready for cutting, firing and hand glazing
garishly ornate. New coatings and finishes to pools are
Beauty and elegance took a back seat adding to the options for pool owners
to function. But the 2009 season is away from traditional tiles. One set to be a
seeing more options to add value and success is a finish called Pool Beads, based
style around the pool with new materials, on retro-reflective beads set in a polymer
more flexible use of ceramics and modified cement matrix.
mosaics – all tied in to designers and Emma Bowles, who markets the
architects who are determined to offer Australian designed system in the UK for
good looks at competitive prices and the Wiltshire based Swimming Pool Design
work with new materials. group of companies says there has been a
Pool tiling and new pool surface noticeable trend away from mosaics to re-
finishing materials have never been a more enforced materials. Pool Beads were seen
important design element. All tiled pools by the UK market at SPATEX in Brighton
have helped the complete look brought earlier in the year – and is becoming
about in infinity edged pools and more increasingly popular.
complex water features. The use of steam Pool Bead has proved a successful
rooms and water therapy annexes to pools method for waterproofing and pool
has added to the opportunities for new finishing in Australia and America. No
materials and more dramatic looks. grout is used so the deterioration and
And commercial and local authority discolouration often seen in tiled pools, is
pools, many hit by having to refurbish old avoided. The silica mix within the Pool
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