SUPPLIER DIRECTORY

FEATURES || Pools To start the thought process, firstly, you must consider your budget. Secondly, you need to imagine what type of swimming pool and added features you would want to be included that are tailored to your guests based on your accommodation offering. These will help you to ensure a return on investment. Your considerations could be a pool that offers more than just swimming but entertains with splash appeal for all ages and abilities or a pool that provides a luxury spa feel, with added features such as an inground spa, sauna, steam and wellness.

Before you start trawling through the internet and your diary is full of pool contractor appointments to come and quote for the work, there is help from SPATA (the Swimming Pool and Allied Trades Association). it provides a range of resources for commercial swimming pool buyers and a register of commercial contractors. It also offers advice to ensure that you get the right pool (indoor or outdoor) and the right contractor for your business (and guest) requirements.

Finding the right pool contractor from the offset can make the difference to your swimming pool project; money well spent will mean your business reaps the rewards in the long run throughout the pool’s life expectancy. You can find pool inspiration from the British Pool & Hot Tub Awards winners hosted by SPATA (and BISHTA - British and Irish Spa and Hot Tub Association). You can view images of these award-winning commercial and domestic pools and much more at www.spata.co.uk

Designing the Dream Swimming Pool It’s a whole lot more than a hole in the ground

You are buying into a lifestyle and you will have firm ideas about how your new swimming pool will look, its features and how it will improve your business. Swimming pools are custom construction or installation projects, so make sure your pool contractor has high standards and is a member of SPATA.

Don’t over-analyse. You will want to find the right people for the job, but if you hear too many opinions, you’ll lose track of the pool that suits your business requirements. Inviting too many contractors to quote for the pool project, and you’ll get bogged down with the estimates.

Meet the contractor in person Swimming pool contractors must visit the proposed pool site so that you can meet them, ask them questions about their work, and see the proposed site for themselves. This visit should take place before the contractor submits a quote for the works.

When is the best time to build a pool? Most businesses want to maximise pool use during the summer months, so you will want to ensure that the pool is under construction out of season. Planning well in advance will help you get the pool when you want.

What’s in a design? Ask for detailed drawings from the pool contractor so you can see what the final pool will look like and that nothing has been missed from your requirements. Additional money spent on the design and construction at the start may save you money over the pool’s lifetime.

Playing it safe Swimming pools can present a risk if the proper precautions are not implemented at the design stage by taking safety into account from the offset, knowing that any risks for your guests using the pool have been reduced.