Basking in the biggest heatwave for years, record high temperatures have resulted in a much-welcomed spike in sales for the UK pool and spa sectors heralding the return of the feel good factor to the UK water leisure economy.
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Watergate School, in the London Borough of Lewisham, is a priceless asset for children with severe learning difficulties. The school’s 90 pupils, aged between three and 11, include some with profound and multiple learning difficulties and many wheelchair users. Watergate’s hydrotherapy pool is particularly valuable for their development, using programmes developed by the NHS physiotherapists based at the school, who also run after school sessions for a baby and toddler groups and visits from another local special school. “As you can appreciate the swimming pool is very important to our school and its pupils,” says Watergate School’s Nick Frost.
Aspects Pools launched its grand Trees 4 CO2 in the Spring, promising to plant one tree for every product purchased on its leading online swimming pool equipment store.
It takes all but the most focused pool engineer to resist being lured by the scope and design of some water leisure project – forgetting what lies beneath. As swimming pool designs become more and more elaborate, it is invariably the plant room that is the poor relation when it comes to adequate space not to mention access.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – Shropshire-based ABS Pools is owned by Roger and Sarah Fildes, who bought the company in June 2003 from Alan Barr.
Procopi UK offer a five year, full warranty filtration package on the French-made RTM Filter and the Eurostar II Pump, made in Germany.
Both products are manufactured with the pool professional in mind, offering quality finish through controlled automated production. The RTM comes with a wide 250mm lid push fi t with an easy lockable outer ring and large 50mm lower drain for easy drainage.
A new retrofit sales brochure from Golden Coast, is inspiring Britain’s estimated 215,000 private pool owners to upgrade their pools with green technologies and the UK’s many installers to profit from this often overlooked market.
Following on from instructions on creating a water-tight cable joint in our last issue, Andy James, Golden Coast’s in-house electro-mechanical engineering specialist turns his attention to the task of retrofitting new LED lights into traditional niches.
With names like Master Blaster, Lagoona Bay and Volcano Springs, the Cariba Creek water park at the Alton Tower’s Splash Landings Hotel is still conjuring up as much aquatic excitement as it was when it first switched on the water features ten years ago. On the actual tenth birthday this month, the venue will be staging a suitably spectacular birthday celebration with pool side competitions, a steel band and lots of waterpark giveaways.
A young Tyneside woman, who fought back from two life-threatening diseases, celebrated a landmark birthday and a clean bill of health in style thanks to Artesian Spa dealers, North Spas of Birtley. Rachel White was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis in November 2011. She made a full recovery but five months later, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had to undergo an emergency operation.
