MOVING FLOORS
Hydrofloors® work with high end swimming pool construction companies who are familiar with the capabilities and quality of their product and increasingly, with architects who are recommending a moveable floor to clients
Floors That Offer Flexibility
MOVING FLOORS FOR BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL SWIMMING POOLS HAVE NEVER BEEN AS POPULAR AS OWNERS LOOK FOR MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY AND A VARIETY OF USES FOR THEIR POOLS AND THE AREAS THAT THEY OCCUPY. WHETHER IT’S TO VARY THE DEPTH OR COMPLETELY COVER THE POOL, DESIGNERS ARE NOW ABLE TO OFFER INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON
By Jon Wadeson
and that’s both in the commercial and domestic sectors and despite the additional costs, which can often be quite significant. The rise in their popularity is directly linked to the flexibility and the numerous benefits that they offer. In many instances, their inclusion is so that the space the pool occupies can be transformed into an alternative use area such as games or entertaining room for a home or a sports hall for a leisure centre. Once in position, by default, they then provide the added benefit of being a fully secure and safe cover which retains heat within the pool water and reduces the amount of chemicals needed, in turn reducing running costs. On other occasions, it’s so that pool depths can be altered allowing for a much
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ver recent years, it seems that an ever increasing number of swimming pools now feature a moving pool floor of some form,
wider variety of uses which maxmises the pool’s potential.
Whatever the reasons for their inclusion (and there clearly are many), moving pool floors provide swimming pools with increased flexibility at the touch of a button.
QUALITY AND LONGEVITY FROM THE LIFTING POOL FLOOR CO The Lifting Pool Floor Co Ltd are one of the UK’s leading specialists in high quality lifting floors for domestic and high end commercial swimming pools.
“Dual purpose spaces have a particular appeal to pool owners in areas of very high property values. In central London locations, the benefit in property valuation of a well designed dual-purpose pool room easily outweighs the cost of the moving floor,” said General Manager Stuart Thomas. Whatever the requirement, their highly
flexible lifting pool floor system can be tailored to a project’s needs. From disappearing steps to lights and fountains, they thrive on unusual requirements. Each of the company’s designs are specified and tested to a working load of 150kg/m² in accordance with the requirements of BS EN 13451-11:2004. The designs do not rely on internal buoyancy to achieve their design load, and are therefore equally safe when the pool is drained. Capable of withstanding a proof load in excess of 750kg/m², the company say their designs offer a degree of structural integrity matched by few of their competitors. Quality and longevity are their highest priorities. However, you may be pleasantly surprised by the competitive total cost of their movable floor systems, compared both to some other lifting swimming pool floor systems and conventional safety covers.
SPN December 2013 61
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