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.
Up against three lower-priced potential suppliers, Aquatrac was
the cover of choice for an Essex customer who wanted a quality
product at best value rather than lowest price.
The Aqua Ocean model was housed in a purpose-built, below
ground pit with removable stainless steel trays.
Aquatrac worked hand-in-glove with Patten Penguin, the
swimming pool contractor commissioned to build the pool as part
of an exclusive up-market residential development.
A regal pair, Christine and Tony Canueto, of Pools Plus, in Berkshire, turned up for work for a whole week, dressed as Pearly King and
Queen, to mark their 30th wedding anniversary.
The pair’s pearl wedding anniversary coincided with the landmark achievement of reaching 30 years in business.
Working from its prime office and showroom location in Essex,
formerly home to Penguin Pools, renowned pool builders of the Seventies and Eighties, Aquascapes has not flinched from filling such large water leisure boots.
Whether as project consultants, designers or providing a turnkey wet leisure installation, Aquascapes has carved itself a
formidable name in the commercial water leisure sector.
Cut throat price-slashing is costing the pool building industry
dear according to one of its leading figures, Stephen Booth,
managing director of Alba/SB Pools Ltd.
“The industry should be very concerned about the pricing that is going on,” warns Stephen. “Companies are slashing prices in order to win contracts at a no-profit price,” he says.
Stephen emphasises: “Price slashing is a short term strategy which ends up with too many companies closing and not being able to see contracts through – making life doubly difficult for the professional companies that are left.”
Offering the largest stock of pool tiles in the country, Waxman
Ceramics, one of the UK’s leading distributors of tiles for water
leisure environments, provided the finishing touches for the learner
pool at the Haverfordwest Leisure Centre in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Origin Leisure has been at the top of the swimming pool industry
for thirty years. To celebrate this milestone the company has
rebranded its entire look, with a bright new logo, an all-new
website, and redesigned vans.
But the ethic of the company remains unchanged. They are still
adopting their programme of constant improvement, and their
products are more adventurous, more imaginatively designed and
more perfectly built than ever.
International trade makes good business sense for small to medium sized business – the type of business that is the bread and butter of the water leisure markets.
Based in West Sussex, Guncast is currently completing
three swimming pools a year for clients overseas – mostly in
France and Northern Italy with a smattering in the Caribbean.
The UK is still seen as a place of innovation and quality manufacturing particularly for the medium to high-end value product, especially ones with a technical twist.
A shining light is Calorex Heat Pumps that employs some 150 people at its manufacturing base in Essex.
