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18 SPN FEB 2010 IndustryNews
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SUFFOLK’S NEPTUNE SWIMMING POOLS
SWIMEX COMPLETES
THIRD BEDFORDSHIRE
CELEBRATES SPATA ACCREDITATION
ENCLOSURE PROJECT
Tony Dunmow, Managing Swimex Enclosures, the pool
Director of Neptune Swimming enclosure specialists has
Pools said: “We are delighted to finished its third project for
have once again successfully passed Bedfordshire County Council.
the SPATA inspection and place The last cover was for Ardley
immense value on this endorsement Lower School, a large state
of our services. SPATA’s inspection is primary school and followed
notoriously robust and keeps our other buildings in the
company on its toes. Their report is county at Slip End and
particularly gratifying for the team Swallowfield.
as we are continually looking at The Ardley Lower School
ways to improve our service. pool was built 30 years
Demonstrating our credentials is previously by the PTA and
becoming increasingly important in risked being abandoned.
a competitive market. SPATA acts as Funding was tight and the
Neptune Swimming Pools team celebrating at a visible signal to our clients that work needed considerable
the Maison Talbooth Hotel pool, Dedham they are using a professional including complete
organisation.” renovation of the interior of
As 2010 began, the team took a the shallow pool with a large
One of the East Anglia’s leading by SPATA, Neptune Swimming deserved break to celebrate their ledge down the length.
pool builders, Neptune Swimming Pools has received recognition SPATA validation and a successful Swimex with partners Edge
Pools based in Clare, Suffolk and full SPATA membership 2009. Their chosen venue was the installed an on-site 1.5mm
started 2010 on a celebratory approval. The SPATA report Maison Talbooth Hotel at Dedham mosaic lining, involving fully
note having again received the highlighted high standards for which boasts a luxury pool with a refurbishing all the fittings,
approval of SPATA. Neptune Pools in both swimming definite wow factor, built and pipe work and dilapidated
Following a stringent inspection pool construction and finishes. maintained by Neptune Pools. pool wall surface.
The school won a
competition on ITV for lottery
DARLLY – THE BRAND AWAKES WITH FILTERS4SPAS
funding. The price was a
fraction of the cost of a
traditional build, meaning
Filters4Spas Ltd, a new British Iphone, Burberry, Nike, Prada, though it produces the same funds could be used elsewhere
company with offices in London Adidas, IBM, Gucci are all made in result, consequently, there now in the school.
and its distribution warehouse in China and yet in the wet leisure over 100 different sizes of filter A 17 metre x 11metre
Newport, Shropshire has been industry we seem to be bogged present for domestic spas across Telescopic Pool Cover building
given the task of building the image down with this ancient “Made In Europe. The variations are length, made to measure was then
of the established Darlly brand. China” syndrome that is old diameter, the tops can be handle, installed, including a Swimex
Over 40% of filter cartridges fashioned bigotry. closed, aperture, push-fit, castle Elite gas powered air heater
presently in hot tubs in the UK are “I admire the Chinese concept and the bottoms can be coarse for all year round use
manufactured by Darlly Filtration, of moderation and harmony, they thread, fine thread of four varying Ardley School are now able
but not many spa owners, or, are very honest, honourable and diameters or a simple aperture of make much greater use of the
indeed, spa retailers actually uncomplicated to deal with and 10 different sizes!” pool and swimming lessons.
realise this. they are perfectionists. All of Gil further added: “With the
Phil Moseley, founder of these characteristics reflect pool and spa market now lifting
Sundance Spas UK and Gil Gingell, themselves in Darllys products I its head out of a weary 2 year
ex-director McCann Ericson, am particularly impressed with recession its time for retailers to
partners in the new European the quality delivered on time and identify that whilst spa sales will
venture, are optimistic of the at a more realistic and fair price.” come back slowly after-care sales
challenge ahead. Darlly have been producing for hot tubs will always be there,
Philip, Marketing Director, said filtration products since 1993. whatsmore, the value of these
“Branding is derived of Western Gil, Commercial Director, thinks sales can often contribute to a
culture, 75% of all the products there has never been a better major part of their overheads.”
we wear or are present in the time for newcomers to join the
home are made in China, yet I wet leisure industry.
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doubt many people could name “Firstly, there is the issue of
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one Chinese brand. identification; with every new spa F FILTERS4SPAS
“Some of the biggest brands in design there is always a brand ( 01952 822877
the world that spring to mind – new filter dimension, even :
www.filters4spas.com
Before and after shots of the pool
TILE PROJECT COSTS RISE FOR BURNHAM POOL
at Ardley Lower School
The £50,000 project to replace Sara Cox-Conklin, received the rendering into a sand-like
every tile in Burnham-On-Sea’s “disappointing” news that the material. This is why the tiles have
swimming pool immediately hit a necessary repairs will be more been coming off the pool’s walls
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
setback when it emerged that the extensive – and expensive. over the past year.
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scale of the problem is worse than “The team has found that water “It is a huge job and means the F SWIMEX ENCLOSURES
first thought. has seeped in behind the tiles costs have risen by an extra ( 0800 804 8025
The owners of Burnham Swim onto the concrete rendering and £6,000 to £52,000 and will take :
www.swimex.co.uk
and Sports Academy, Mark and then the chlorine has turned the longer to complete.”
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