As Vita Spa’s largest UK dealer and having been named Pool & Spa Retailer of the Year at the UK Pool & Spa Awards, it is fair say 2015 was a red letter year for 1 Stop Spas. After moving in to a bigger showroom premises in March and adding a second brand of hot […]
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Celebrating its first birthday in May, Huddersfield Leisure Centre is one of the largest leisure facilities in West Yorkshire. Since it opened, the centre has welcomed more than half a million visitors and has had over 4,000 new members sign up. Operated by Kirklees Active Leisure (KAL), the £36m facility at Springwood replaced the old […]
Offering a concerted strategy to attract more shoppers into specialist pool and spa stores, Bayrol, operating in the UK exclusively through PPG, has unveiled a combination of initiatives to energise its UK retailers. Speaking at the recent PPG seminar, Bayrol’s Juergen Konig revealed some key tactics in the battle to attract more traffic away from […]
The spa leisure complex at Hallmark Hotel Stourport Manor was served by an old air conditioning unit, which after years of service was no longer working correctly and was costing a lot of money to maintain. This affected the hotels ability to provide an optimal environment for guests in the leisure complex and from the […]
Pool covers offer an obvious energy saving solution but are sometimes overlooked, possibly due to the capital investment cost. However, it seems illogical that any pool should remain uncovered at night, given the pressures we all face to reduce energy costs on a daily basis. If capital outlay is a concern, then Heatsavr, the original […]
Contact with an object, contact with a wall or the floor, slip, human error, contact with another person and water incidents have been outlined as the top six causes of swimming pool accidents. The report, which was developed for Right Directions’ accident benchmarking platform STITCH, found that swimming pools were the second most likely place […]
Water play equipment of all shapes and sizes poses a huge hygiene challenge to swimming pool operators. Sealed inflatables are plugged to prevent air escaping. Constant-flow inflatables, which can be big and complex, have an air blower permanently connected and running when the inflatable is in use. The materials of construction often allow water absorption […]
ForumPiscine, Italy’s number one trade exhibition for the pool and spa sectors returns this year, and promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Taking place at the Bologna Fair District in Italy from February 18 – 20, this year’s new and improved ‘Gallery’ edition will offer more business opportunities for exhibitors and visitors […]
Training is well underway for Plastica’s Cale Sinfield as he prepares to run the Virgin Money London Marathon on April 24. This will be the second consecutive year that the customer services manager has run the marathon for Phab Kids, a national charity dedicated to promoting and encouraging disabled and non-disabled people to achieve an […]
A businessman has been ordered to pay £16,000 for selling hot tubs that he knew were faulty and gave people electric shocks. Ian Crilly, 50, who runs Derby firm Midland Hot Tub Hire, sold one victim’s family a hot tub that shocked her, her mother and her dog. He also sold another to a second […]
