LET’S PARTY!

Party-revellers are urged to grab their dancing shoes for the UK Pool & Spa Awards –the water leisure sector’s not-to-be-missed Celebration Of The Year! A drinks reception, sit-down meal and a sensational band, with a host of prizes and giveaways, add to a lively cocktail of business and individual achievement presentations. Tickets are selling fast […]

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SHOW STOPPERS

Miles Hammond on the role showrooms play in boosting home wellness sales… The sales journey for pool and spa retailers, over the past five years, plots something like a white-knuckle roller coaster ride of highs and lows with a smattering of stomach-churning steep twists and turns. Despite the boom in on-line media channels, like You […]

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AT YOUR SERVICE

Maximise the potential of your site service visits… The lifeblood of the majority of specialist UK and Ireland swimming pool companies, service calls offer a steady income stream that is manageable, profitable, both most crucially, predictable. While emergency call outs can carry a premium for unpredicted works, planned service contracts can be scheduled and completed […]

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BUCKETS & SPADES

Norfolk may conjure up images of unspoilt beaches, sleepy seaside resorts and boats lazily navigating abundant water ways. With its proximity to London and the South East, there’s a thriving market for swimming pool companies… if they can keep up with the pace. While Norfolk is most famous for its man-made broads, the same kind […]

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ON LOCATION – SHOWROOM CLOSE UP

The One Stop Spas team perform cartwheels to open their new Sleaford showroom.. Taking their sons to their regular gym club in Sleaford, Melissa and Chris Brady, of 1 Stop Spas, in Lincolnshire, had often cast an envious eye over the building, agreeing it would make an ideal showroom. So when they heard a whisper […]

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Home Wellness

Lincolnshire-based 1 Stop Spas lived up to their name when provided a one-stop shop for the customer, undertaking the design, planning, supply, coordination and installation of the whole project, therefore reducing costs for the customer and ensuring a speedy completion. The client had visited the 1 Stop Spas showroom 12 months previously, having been impressed […]

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Rising From The Ashes

Following a devastating fire at Kenwick Health and Leisure facility in October 2014, the replacement ClubSpa at Kenwick welcomed its first guests this summer. The £5 million refurbished spa in Lincolnshire has a stunning octagonal centre piece pool hall featuring a 20 x 8.5m pool with additional baby and learner sections and a 5 x […]

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Slow Burner For 2013

The Pool & Spa Scene team looks back on the highs and lows of 2013 and looks ahead to 2014. Above ground pools were the come-back kings of 2013 as at last a real summer arrived on UK and northern European shores. It was a case of fortune favouring the brave, namely those who had […]

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Fire Damage Bill Reaches Quarter Of A Million

The pool store of Grayfox Swimming Pools, of Stow, Lincolnshire, has been completely destroyed in a fire that caused damage estimated at £250,000.

It took the crew of eight fire engines more than four hours to bring the fire under control as flames threatened to spread to the nearby family home.

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