Hive Of Activity: Tudor Grange Leisure Centre

Welcoming over a million visitors each year, Tudor Grange Leisure Centre is an integral part of the Solihull community. The complex boasts a 25m eight lane main pool, as well as a teaching pool and a multi-purpose diving pool with a 1m spring board and a 3m platform. The adjacent spa area comprises of a […]

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Spanish Pool Sector On The Up

Signs of economic recovery are on the horizon for the pool and spa sector in Spain, after the sector grew by six per cent in 2014. Last year 16,800 new swimming pools were built in Spain, double the amount built in 2013. With 1.1 million pools, Spain is second in Europe and fourth in the […]

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Less Is More For Newson

Norwich-based Newson Swimming Pools recently undertook the installation of an outdoor pool at a converted barn residence. As it was an existing building, the team were restricted by the location of the filtration plant, which was situated in a small changing area. “Due to the confined space allocation for the plant room, it was essential […]

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Diabetes UK Launches Swim Challenge

Diabetes UK has revealed the UK’s swimming hotspots, ahead of the launch its national swimming challenge. People in Sevenoaks in Kent and Westminster in central London swim more regularly than anywhere else in the country, according to the league table based on Sport England data. Other regions in the top 10 include Fylde in Lancashire, […]

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Upgrades Underway At Inverness Leisure

Work is well underway at Inverness Leisure on the refurbishment of the existing pool filtration equipment and the installation of a state-of-the-art backwash water recovery system. Main contractor Morrison Construction appointed aqua leisure specialist Barr + Wray to renovate the filtration equipment used in both the 25m competition pool and the three flume leisure pools. […]

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Calorex Is First For Service And Support

Underpinning its ongoing commitment to customer service and complete satisfaction, Calorex Heat Pumps, available through Certikin, continues to strengthen its in-house service department and long established national network of service engineers. At the heart of Calorex’s service operation is the dedicated support team ready to take calls and process and manage service enquiries, from the […]

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Paramount Hosts Aquamatic Engineer Training

Paramount hosted a three-day training seminar for its Aquamatic automatic swimming pool cover dealers recently. Each day, Mark Webster, Aquamatic’s service manager, introduced Mark Turner and Andrew Dunn, Paramount’s most experienced engineers with over 30 years combined experience between them. Together, they went through all the various scenarios involved in the delivery of Aquamatic, from […]

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Open And Shut Case For New Hydrus

Multi-use pool rooms, specifically pools with moving floors, are now an established solution to optimise space. New from Heatstar, the Hydrus AC is especially conceived to meet the markedly opposing environmental control demands of the room in both wet and dry modes. The Hydrus AC has the capability to tackle the strenuous demands of a […]

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Ocea Lifts New HQ Cover

Ocea recently welcomed members of the trade to the official opening of its new UK production facility in Oxfordshire. Setting it apart from its competitors, the new UK assembly base allows Ocea to cut delivery times from four to two weeks and also makes servicing and after sales even more time efficient. “Previously, our covers […]

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AstralPool UK Raises Pool Contract Bar

AstralPool UK is taking a hands-on approach to stainless steel pool project design and delivery on behalf of its pool trade customers. Providing top quality products, backed with unrivalled technical know-how, AstralPool UK work alongside pool construction companies enabling them to pitch, with confidence, for higher value projects than they would have previously envisaged. “Pool […]

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