GOLDEN MOVE FOR BELL LEISURE

Ahead of their 50th wedding anniversary next year, West Sussex based Bell Leisure has completed its move to a new base from Pulborough, seven miles down the road to nearby Washington. The new headquarters offers ample parking for the company’s fleet of 20 vehicles and its current team of 27. With one building dedicated to […]

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PERFECT MATCH FOR HOME COUNTIES

Deep End Pools has acquired Horsham-based Home Counties Pools, one of Sussex, Kent and Surrey’s most established installers of domestic swimming pools, hot tubs, spas and endless fitness pools. Deep End Pools, backed by London- investment firm RDCP, after it acquired the business in December last year, is one of the UK’s most prestigious swimming […]

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ATTENTION TO DETAIL

  KLAFS have all bases covered… Whether working as an extension of the main contract team, or working in their own right, KLAFS pride themselves in setting the benchmark for quality in wellness. Meticulous in attention to detail, KLAFS, work extremely closely with every client to ensure that their needs are being met. KLAFS, distributed […]

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GAME CHANGING POOL BUILDS

With their roots in landscaping, the Bonsor brothers, Olly and Ben, made a natural progression into pool building encouraged and supported by experienced contacts. Significantly, they have been using SolidPool PROblocks for more than 12 years ago and are now championing their use to the wider UK pool trade. “Before we came across these speedy-fit, […]

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INDUSTRY MOURNS ‘CHEEKY BOY’

It has been an extremely tough time for everyone at West Sussex based Bell Leisure following the death of one of the company’s owners, Adam Palmer. Fondly known in the industry as Cheeky Boy, Adam, 45, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in August 2020. He died in January. Adam leaves Zoe, who sometimes worked in […]

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SAVING A LOTTA HOT TUB BOTTLES

A water treatment product range that aims to protect people from hot tub infections uses British sea shells as its magic ingredient. Pennosan products are made using crab, langoustine and shrimp shells from around the UK including Scotland and Cornwall and Northern Ireland. All the shells were destined for landfill. When the hard outer skeletons […]

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GOLD RIBBON

A luxurious pool offering from the Simplex team… Simplex Swimming Pools is a family run company based on Hayling Island, South Hampshire. Their work takes them to key geographic areas such as Hampshire, South London, Surrey, East and West Sussex, Dorset and Wiltshire. Alongside retail and mail order services for all pool, spa, sauna and […]

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UK POOL & SPA AWARDS 2014

The UK swimming pool and spa sectors celebrated one of its best years in a decade at its annual UK Pool & Spa Awards with an *eight per cent increase in business. More hostages to fortune with the unpredictable British weather,  rather than the economy; two months of sustained summer temperatures in July and August […]

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The Generation Gap

The pool and spa sector is on the brink of a skills crisis as an ageing workforce retires; leaving a durth of specialist knowledge in the water leisure sector. Increasingly urgent searches, in situations vacant advertisements, for suitably experienced swimming pool and hot tub engineers, is the writing on the wall for pool and spa […]

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