MOVING FLOORS
The powered floor significantly cuts pool heating costs and humidity levels, reducing a home’s carbon footprint. And for families with young children, it allows parents to make the pool a completely out-of-bounds zone. It is suitable for indoor or outdoor pools. The Cartwright Group offers a complete service, from survey, design and installation. Nikki Cartwright from Chameleon Powered Floor Systems says: “The Chameleon floor is a unique and stunning concept which offers pool owners maximum flexibility. We are delighted to be working with Certikin and are confident that as the UK’s largest wet leisure distributor the product will reach an even wider audience. Like Certikin, The Cartwright Group have been in business over fifty years so the customer has the assurance of buying a quality system based on material strength and high performance engineering.”
THE PRESTIGE OPTION FOR SWIMMING POOL FLOORS The Prestige Pool Floor (PPF) company has installed a number of large-scale moveable pool floors for leisure centres around the UK. PPF floors allow for a variety of movement – enabling the user to set the deep and shallow end depths separately and tilt the pool floor. Depth management of the pool is controlled by a touch screen poolside control panel, making any adjustments simple and the chosen depths are shown on LCD displays around the pool in order to communicate this varying information to people using the pool. In its ‘rest position’, the floor floats on the surface of the water, with the benefits of greater heat retention, less evaporation and lower chemical and fuel costs. Within a few minutes the floor can be moved to the bottom of the pool, using just 2.2kW of electricity at a rate of approximately 450mm/minute.
Computer generated image of how the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre will look. The project is Barr + Wray’s highest value order for a moveable floor to date
The floor depth is varied by a selection of cables and pulleys under the floor and powered by hydraulic rams located in a nearby plant room. The advantage to having the rams outside of the water is that in the unlikely event that there is a problem with one of the rams, it is easily accessible and will not leak oil or grease into the pool environment – an expensive and inconvenient problem.
The frame of the pool is made from stainless steel beams to provide the high strength and durability against the water and pool chemicals. This frame is then surrounded by foam filled buoyancy packs to cause the floor to be naturally buoyant. The floor movement is controlled by cables attached to the underside of the floor, working against the floor’s natural buoyancy. These cables are diverted back to the plant room, where they are driven by hydraulic rams. The frame is finished with a deck material. Two standard types of floor finish are available but other bespoke finishes can be achieved.
The first option is a plastic deck made up from polyethylene panels with a non-slip surface finish. This is a standard finish for commercial projects but can also be used for residential projects.
The second option is a stainless steel deck finish which is ready for tiling. This option is the standard finish for residential projects.
Barr + Wray work closely with Variopool who have installed over
400 custom pool floors in some of the world’s most famous aquatic centres
Most tiles can be used to finish the floor, however the approximate weight of the tiles would need to be agreed.
VARIOPOOL SOLUTIONS AVAILABLE THROUGH BARR + WRAY Barr + Wray has a worldwide reputation for cutting edge swimming pool design and are one of the UK’s leading providers of commercial swimming pools. When it comes to moveable swimming pool floors, the aqua-leisure specialist works closely with Variopool, an industry leading company based in the Netherlands. Variopool has installed over 400 custom pool floors in some of the world’s most famous aquatic centres.
Their movable floors are manufactured from grade 316L stainless steel and synthetic materials that are fully resistant to long term submersion in treated water. The floating platform is connected to a hydraulic actuating system pulling on a series of
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