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MovingFloors DEC 2010 SPN
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Award winning Heritage Pools completed a swimming pool with a movable floor which can be stopped at any point in its path upwards
into place and allowing the tiled floor to merge with the surrounding tiles to create a flat open and dry space. From bottom to top, moving the floor takes between 8 and ten minutes. The 9.5 x 5m pool has its own building and includes environmental controls that automatically change the temperature and humidity of the room depending on whether the pool is open or closed.
The private owners of the pool, from Kent, wanted to have a multifunctional area that could be used for swimming but could equally be used for a social function or as a play area. New technology was used to create the floor with the development of an aquadraulic pump. This pump uses the pool water rather than oil, meaning there can never be any contamination of the water. An industry first.
Roll-on-Room.com supply automated swimming pool floor cover systems complete with any type of floor finish from natural stone, ceramic tiles or even timber to match the remainder of the pool surround – indoor or out. Andrew Rutherford of
Roll-on-Room.com explained: “The room in question will be used as a standard pool hall up until 7.00pm at which time the floor will literally glide into position across the pool on special nylon rollers with sealed stainless bearings for minimum resistance and noise to provide an evening function room and bar. By installing the Roll-on-Room space is freed up for the developer to increase the amount of holiday chalets on the site so saving space that can be used to increase revenue.” Another advantage of the Roll-on-Room is that the floor and drive system are dry housed in a pit within the pool surround. No contact whatsoever is made with the swimming pool water. In some commercial instances two drive mechanisms are required and both would be dry housed. The main floor is fabricated using chemical grade stainless
steel with corrosion resistant sub frame and mechanism to ensure a long trouble free life span. Rutherford adds: “It is perfectly possible to retrofit and a simple design modification to a reinforced concrete pool will enable it to accept the Roll-on-Room easily. We recently added a system to an existing pool where we had to raise the floor at one end by 150mm and the adjoining garage floor also by 150mm so that the floor could slide away unseen.”
Installation time is swift with production time running at around 6-8 weeks for both domestic and commercial systems and physical placement carried out in a week.
“We believe we have the most sophisticated automated floor system on the market,” continues Rutherford. “It is aesthetically superb, versatile, well engineered and we offer a complete installation service for our trade accounts backed up with after sales assistance and a generous end user warranty. “A fully prepared floor with a tiled finish installed on a 10m x 4.5m pool will cost in the region of £115,000. The wider the pool the more the cost increases so we advise clients to try and keep the width down and increase the length whenever possible.” spn
i FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
F ADM FLOORS ( 01799 529436 :
www.admfloors.com F HERITAGE POOLS ( 01483 235858 :
www.heritagepools.co.uk F PPF ( 01379 872800 :
www.wrightfield.co.uk F ROLL-ON-ROOM ( 01704 549678 :
www.roll-on-room.co.uk F STAGE SYSTEMS ( 01509 611021 :
www.stagesystems.co.uk F SUNTRAP SYSTEMS ( 0121 428 1155 :
www.suntrap-systems.co.uk F THE LIFTING POOL FLOOR COMPANY ( 0800 612 3342 :
www.liftingpoolfloor.com F VARIOPOOL ( +31 (0)72 572 1005 :
www.variopool.nl
“In fact astonishingly given the costs
involved, moving floors for swimming pools now feature in two of every five new
commercial pools being built – to alter pool depth or provide flooring for what is often revenue generating options”
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