Traditionally heated electrically, many hot tub users find that energy costs are high and heat up times quite slow, limiting their usability. However, E J Bowman’s new heat exchanger could provide the solution that addresses these problems. Known as the EC80, it enables hot tubs to be heated via a domestic or commercial heating system, […]
Pool & Spa
A family-owned swimming pool building and maintenance company has branched into the spa and hot tub market with the opening of a new showroom. Webster Pools has been trading in Falmouth for over 40 years and has recently opened a showroom in Penryn. Pete Webster, part of the father and son partnership behind Webster Pools […]
Leading spa manufacturer L..A. Spas saw UK sales increase by over 30 per cent last year, under the stewardship of the Aqua Warehouse Group. The higher than forcasted results were revealed at a recent dealer seminar, hosted by Aqua Warehouse. VIP guests John Johnson, CEO of Maax Spas Corporation, Jerry Keller, factory manager and Jim […]
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 […]
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 […]
Now entering its 38th year, the Institute of Swimming Pool Engineers enjoyed a busy last quarter of 2015, with technical seminars, filtration workshops and the AGM. John Cheek, FISPE, was inaugurated as the new ISPE President as Allen Wilson, FISPE completed his two year term of office. October also saw the retirement from the Institute […]
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 […]
