The UK swimming pool industry lost one of its ālarger than lifeā characters with the death of Joe Smith recently aged 70. Best known as the founder of the Premier Gunite Company, Joe had a reputation for working hard and playing hard; enjoying nothing more than celebrating success with a story or two from the […]
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In this very special 20th anniversary year for SPATEX, the BSPF, BISHTA and SPATA have a busy few days planned at the show to showcase the work of the respective associations and the work of its members, alongside the other 100+ exhibitors. Visit stand A1 (just to the right of the main entrance), where the […]
THE INSTITUTE of Swimming Pool Engineers is calling for industry-wide action to raise awareness of the risk of entrapment in swimming pools following the latest in a series of incidents including deaths. Newly elected ISPE President John Cheek is looking to work with the Pool Water Advisory Group (PWTAG) and The Swimming Pool and Allied […]
The Swimming Pool and Allied Trade Association (SPATA) and the British and Irish Hot Tub Association (BISHTA) joined together for the newly named British Pool & Hot Tub Awards in February, to celebrate the achievements of their member companies. Held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and timed to coincide with the SPATEX swimming pool […]
Everyone knows that super-efficient Heatstar environmental control units play a major role in pool sustainability and energy saving efficiency. But, just in case proof was needed, did you know that, out of the last three years gold award winners for sustainability, Heatstar was the manufacturer of choice for environmental control. Every year during the SPATA […]
A private residential pool in the Midlands, which won Rockingham Pools the 2014 Sustainability Gold Award in the Swimming Pool and Allied Trade Association annual competition, makes an excellent ācase studyā for Rockingham and Heatstar. The owner of the pool had already built his adjacent house to a high specification. However, he had insisted that […]
The Swimming Pool and Allied Trade Association (SPATA) and the British and Irish Hot Tub Association (BISHTA) joined together for the newly named British Pool & Hot Tub Awards in February, to celebrate the achievements of their member companies. Held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and timed to coincide with the SPATEX swimming pool […]
National Leisure companies lived up to their elite reputation with a clean sweep in the Residential Indoor Pool of the Year category of this yearās UK Pool & Spa Awards. The residential pools categories proved to be the hardest fought sector in this yearās competition with National Leisure stalwarts, Tanby Pools, taking gold, narrowly pipping […]
It may have been the wettest winter in a hundred years but pool and spa retailers should be getting set for a sizzling summer, if we are to believe scientists, who are 75 per cent certain that 2014 will be the hottest summer on record for the UK and Eire.
Thermapool has claimed game, set and match in the long running legal wrangle with insulated panel pool system rivals, Polypool after receiving the Patent Officeās opinion
