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Floored
systems!
Moving floors for swimming pools now feature in two of
every five new commercial pools being built – to alter pool
depth or provide a floor for often revenue generating
options. Now the private pool market is starting to warm
to the thrill of the benefits of making the most of confined
spaces by having a top quality floor finish which rolls away
to reveal a swimming pool
hey may be expensive. They may caught the imagination of homeowners. Eastbourne and Redditch to Wrexham
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cost anything between £300,000 The reality is that for the right price moving floors have been installed by
and £500,000 but it seems the swimming pools can be transformed. The commercial or leisure centre owners looking
glamorous option of providing a flexibility is such that not only can the to have more options for limited spaces. It
moving floor which can transform a moving floor option be moved up to offer means a more flexible use of floor space and
swimming pool into a wide variety of other a room for say aerobic classes but there’s by definition more revenue opportunities.
uses is now definitely in vogue. also the option of changing the depth of a At Stafford Leisure Centre for example,
Moveable floors are now likely to be a pool from say an area where toddlers can the Learner Pool contains a parallel
feature of up to 40% of all new commercial play safely and moved into an area suitable moveable floor system, designed and
pool projects and tenders. for competition diving . installed by FT Leisure Limited. It is typical
And at the very top of the residential Leisure centres were once the almost of many installations and was designed not
pool market the chance of converting a exclusive purchasers of such engineering only to act as a moveable floor system,
swimming spool area into a dining area, systems and all over the country from providing a multitude of depths and
functional room or even a family room has Leatherhead to Lincoln, Bolton to activities for all types of swimmers, but
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