Custom Design Pools
Every Indoor Swimming Pool incorporates many complex component parts that must be be Fit for Purpose and provide trouble-free Service for a long time.
The vast majority of Architects and Structural Engineers have no direct experience of Indoor Swimming Pool design and often make many fundamental mistakes that are both very difficult and costly to put right.
When you employ Bluepools you get the direct benefit of the experience and technical expertise gained from the hundreds of pool projects that Bluepools has successfully carried out.
How does it work?
Bluepools provides a Proposal and the Client accepts it
The Benefits that the Bluepools approach provides
- Optimal Pool Design in every detail
- Control of the Pool Equipment Type & Quality
- Control of Type & Quality of Pool Hall Floor & Ceiling finishes
- Control of Progress & Co-ordination of Trades to minimise waste and duplication of effort
- Choice of Disinfection Systems
- Sparkling Water Filtration Quality
- Widest choice of bubblers, jets and seat arrangment in a hot tub
- Control the Type & Reliability of Pool Safety Equipment
- Save up to 40% on Total Pool Cost
- Avoid the Risk of Large Upfront Payments to Contractors
How It Works In Practice
The comprehensive set of Design Drawings and the Specification that Bluepools provides are essential for Indoor Pools as this eliminates the risk of getting something wrong that requires costly remedial works.
Bluepools provideds a comprehensive Folio of detailed drawings & installation instructions with advice and guidance available to the Client and Site Manager from Concept to Completion.
Bluepools provides all the pool equipment from top quality suppliers so the Builder never has to worry about missing parts or parts that do not fit together properly and which would delay installation.
Every indoor pool project is complex and risky and so Bluepools provides a guarantee that if any of the pool equipment does not meet current domestic pool industry standards, all the deficient parts will immediately be replaced. This is in accordance with our policy of providing Clear Clean Water for all projects.
Bluepools does not provide any pool equipment that is not fully guranteed by the manufacturer or that cannot be repaired because spare parts are not available.
Clear Clean Water
Design & Installation Process
An indoor domestic pool is a complex project that will require specialist design skills to ensure that the pool is fit for purpose and built to last.
The Bluepools Design & Installation Process is made up of 3 key stages. Here we provide a step by step explanation of each stage:
- Bluepools visits the location for a Site Meeting with the Client to accept the Brief and identify the detailed requirements, take the necessary measurements, photographs and utility location details.
- Bluepools considers the requirements, develops 3D structural layouts of the pool and undercroft, then emails the Design Folio to the Client/Architect for comment.
- Bluepools incorporates the comments and provides a revised Design Folio.
- This continues on an iterative basis until the Client is completely satisfied and approves the Design.
- Bluepools then provides a Preliminary Estimate of the Cost of the complete Pool Installation (including an estimate of the cost of wall and roof finishes, any special foundations, retaining walls, paved areas and underground plant rooms etc).
- Bluepools provides a quotation for the Detailed Design Fee for the structural, piping, plant and electrical equipment & the supply of the specialist pool equipment from Indoor Pool Equipment Specialists who provide the equipment manufacturing fault guarantees.
- The Client now has fixed prices for the pool equipment and an estimate of the cost for the whole pool project.
- Bluepools undertakes the detailed building and pool equipment design and provides the documents required for pricing by the Builder or those quoting in a tender process.
- Bluepools undertakes the detailed structural design and provides a Folio of drawings for Building Regulation Approval including structural design calculations and steel reinforcement schedules.
- The Client or Bluepools obtains quotes from Trade Contractors for the supply of building materials, the pool hall construction, the pool installation and the installation of the pool equipment.
- The Client places the orders with the selected Builder and with Bluepools for the pool equipment.
- The Building Control Inspector is commissioned to inspect the work for compliance with the Building Regulations.
- The Client / Trade Contractors install the pool and Bluepools provides the pool equipment and a "Help Desk Service".
- The Builder is paid stage payments after each stage of the work is complete.
- Bluepools visits the site at the times identified in the Proposal to advise the Client on the adequacy of the completed works, to install the items identified in its Proposal and to commission the swimming pool.
This unique approach to pool design and installation provides all the benefits described on this web page. Most importantly it removes most of the risk involved in pool installation and absolutely guarantees that the Client will get real value for their investment that will enhance the attractiveness and hence saleability of their property.
Swimming Pool Design
Planning Consent
Unless your property is in a conservation area, planning consent will not be required because it will probably come under the Permitted Development Regulations. Under these the maximum eaves height of the pool hall is 2.5m with a maximum ridge height of 4m.
This might sound quite limiting but the height reference is from existing ground level and if the level is reduced a higher building can be provided.Bluepools has a lot of experience in designing pool halls that comply with the Permitted Development rules.
Dropping the pool floor level to keep within the height rule may require some additonal drainage around the pool hall but this may be unnavoidable where roof tiling needs a steep slope that will increase the ridge height of the pool hall.
An Outdoor Pool does not require Building Regulation approval whereas an Indoor Pool does. However, as the pool hall will not be deemed a habitable space,it is mainly the insulation that is important.
How Does This Benefit You
- Background knowledge and experience is required when purchasing equipment - particularly for items like liners and to avoid any costly site delays becuase parts don't fit and have to be re-ordered.
- Bluepools provides impartial advice to the Client on the advantages and disadvantages of each product from the point of view of cost, efficiency and life expectancy.
- The Client will receive a copy of all equipment orders and details of manufacturer warranties. This provides a safeguard for the client to contact the manufacturer directly if Bluepools are not able to.
- Bluepools checks that everything has been installed properly and then supervises the installation of the liner, the filling of the pool and the commissioning of the equipment.
- There is a simple division of responsibility. The Builder is responsible for all the building and installation work. Bluepools is responsible for the Specification and capacity of the Pool Equipment.
The Method described above will provide a reliable budget for the total cost of the pool installation before the Client is committed to the Project. It also eliminates the Risk involved in paying a Pool Installation Contractor up to 25% of the Total Pool Cost before they even start on site.
Bluepools Fees
Concept Design: £2,000 + VAT and is due before "Stage 1" commences.
Detailed design: A small percentage of the total cost of the pool equipment + VAT. The Detailed Design Fee will depend on the design/structural complexity, the service to be provided during the Quotation Process and the Scope of Work.