CASE STUDY
HOW A THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED SWIMMING POOL CAN PROVIDE OPTIONS AND VARIETY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
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f you built a pool in your garden what would you want it to provide for you and your family? A chance to laze around the pool in summer? The opportunity to use the pool to get fit? Or perhaps somewhere to get some rest and relaxation which at the same time provided safety and fun for the family. Gone are the days when a swimming pool was just a basic shell filled with water.
Now new technology and innovation means it
can provide different options. Take this sensational pool in Sheen in south-west London where the home owner had a very clear idea of what he wanted from his new pool. He was
looking for a pool which would cater for water play, exercise, hydrotherapy and which also looked great! He intended to put in some serious swimming to get fit so he wanted something which meant he didn’t have to swim lap after lap. The answer was a counter-current unit which offers fitness swimming on the spot replacing the need for “doing laps”. Then he wanted a separate spa section to
provide some rest and recuperation for the family with fitted hydrotherapy jets. Then there was looking after the growing family with a shallow end for paddling and splashing around and a deep end for more fun and diving. Specialist swimming pool builders and designers London Swimming Pool Company faced a challenge to provide a pool which offered all the options the client was looking for. The solution was a large, almost square pool with a split level bottom and dedicated activity areas featuring the latest technology.
The deep half of the pool measures 2.20 metres, deeper than the average residential pool and the excavation proved to be the most difficult part of the project since the ground contained running water and sand, resulting in constant cave-ins. The required depth was achieved through close co- ordination between, and skills of, all parties concerned. Due to the complexity of the structure needed for this pool and the time it would take to create it, the shell was formed with shotcrete – which is pneumatically applied concrete. At the deep end a stainless steel Jetstream Miro
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