Water Prices are set to rise 17% over the next five years for Thames Water customers. Water rates are set to sore due to “Decades of under investment” said Chief Executive of Thames Water David Owen, “Bills have been artificially low for many years”. The rise is set to fund ”Vital Upgrades” to the Thames Water systems. Prices have already risen by a third over the last 5 years.

This coupled with Energy prices expected to rise by up to 40% a year, over the next decade along with the current financial climate, means we have to really start thinking about how we can save energy and resources.

So here are some tips, advice and equipment to turn your pool environmentally friendly this season.

The first way to save money on our pools is to ensure all equipment is regularly serviced and kept up to full efficiency. Ensure you have no leaks, weeps or damaged pipe work as this will just be putting money straight down the drain. If you do know you have a leak, no need to worry as we have many ways in which we can locate, expose and repair the problem with minimal fuss.

Ensure you have a good cover to prevent any unnecessary evaporation which in turn will lead to extra chemical consumption and heating costs.

Install water saving devices such as cartridge filtration and  multi-cyclone which reduce the need for filter waste water and back washing frequency.

With the rising energy costs also look into more efficient ways of heating your pool. With the modern advances in heat pump technologies you can get up to 5 times worth of energy back out of the heater. Solar is also a very viable option for some pools. We have an ideal line for above ground pools.

So to save money on your pool now call Deep End Pools 01494 681835.

Many people worry about safety around their pool through the winter. Many worry about children and animals walking and falling through the cover and getting trapped. So this season we have introduced the new Epervier Winter Debris Cover – NF P 90-308 Standard Compliant.

EPERVIER combines strength and light weight in an attractive cover that meets the stringent requirements stipulated in the French standard NF P 90-308 (depending on the type of finish/fastening system selected). Purpose designed for easy installation, removal and cleaning, its sober and discreet appearance ensures seamless integration into your pool surroundings.
EPERVIER is an opaque cover made of prestressed, woven, PVC coated, reinforced polyester. The is edged with a wide reinforced strip to protect it against abrasion caused by contact with the coping. The underside of the reinforcing band that lies against the coping is beige coloured to avoid staining. The fabric, made exclusively for our factories, features microperforations distributed over its entire surface, so EPERVIER allows rain water to filter through but is impermeable to light. The cover’s design ensures that it lies perfectly flat over any pool, even those featuring steps and free-form pools.

EPERVIER covers protect exposed areas of the waterproofing from damage by sunlight and slow the growth of algae by inhibiting photosynthesis.

This is definitely the must have winter cover of 2009.

To order your Epervier call Deep End Pools 01494 681835 now!

Epervier Covers

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Swimming pool liners for in ground swimming pools, really are the decorative finish to any swimming pool, a good thicker gauge liner really ought to be able to last 10-15 years on average, with many factors of wear being taken into account:

Temperature

Chemicals

Usage

Exposed sunlight periods

We have experienced many pool owners with liners heading into the age of around 25 years! Of course for this to happen you really ought to be a stickler when it comes to water chemistry and temperature control!

All swimming pool liners are tailored to suit your swimming pool, as the variables within the swimming pool shells vary massively never is one swimming pool liner the same as another on an in ground pool.

When is the best time to change a swimming pool liner?

Well the fitting temperature and outside ambient temperatures have a huge factor when it comes to liner fitment, for instance in 2006 when the day time temperatures were heading into the 90’s the temperature was simply too hot to install liners in and around the Buckinghamshire areas, the weight of the liner on the wall sections pulling and stretching the liner beyond the permitted tolerances, so during this period we installed all swimming pool liners either first thing in the morning or last thing at night when the temperatures, however in 2007 and 2008 when the outside ambient temperatures were slightly lower we choose to use two suction fans per liner installation to help pull the liners into the shell tighter as less stretch was available due to low ambient temperatures.

We would advise the best time for a liner to be installed would be between late February and Late October when outdoor and any time on an indoor liner change. whenever you are looking to install any liner in a high water table area such as Denham, Farnham Common, Marlow, Burnham Beeches and Aylesbury more areas we can advise upon due to our experience in these areas, the perfect time dependent upon the years weather is often late summer and the early autumn periods.

How much will a swimming pool liner change cost me?

well the fact is in ground swimming pool liners are far easier to install than above ground swimming pool liners, however good consideration must be taken into account for small light floor repairs gaskets and faceplates and liner lock repairs roman end gaskets under water light inspections.

an average swimming pool liner change inclusive of chemicals labour materials and the liner really ought to come in around 2-3k mark anything much less than this then please ensure the specification is comparable as economies can be made on a service that takes 2-3 days to install and something that should then last 10-15 years.

Preparation preparation preparation

one area savings can be made is the preparation, all metal panels should be flatted off and rubbed down, floor areas touched up and treated, plastic fittings cleaned and ready for gaskets. Preparation really is the key, 2-6 hours often being the average preparation for a swimming pool pvc liner is normal, of course this can depend upon the builder of the swimming pool in the first instance.

Call either:

01628 666294 Taplow maidenhead office and swimming pool shop

01494 671787 Beaconsfield Head Office and Swimming pool shop

Deep End Pools

Deep End Pools carry out liner change services in a vast coverage of areas to include: Henley on Thames, Medmenham, Bix, Nettlebed, Nuffield, Remenham hill, Wargrave, Hurley, Marlow, Maidenhead, Knowl hill, Cookham, Cookham Dean, Marlow Bottom, Little Marlow, Winter Hill, Berkshire, Ascot, Holyport, Bray, Windsor, Dedworth, Rotherford peppard, Lower Shiplake, Sonning, Charvil, Twyford, Hare Hatch, Burchetts Green, Pinkneys Green, Littlewick Green, Dorney, Hedsor, Cookham rise, Flackwell Heath, High Wycombe, Speen, Naphill, Lacey Green, Chepping Wycombe, Loudwater, Beaconsfield, Seer Green, Forty Green, Knotty Green, Jordans, Hedgerley, Gerrards Cross, Camp road, Chalfonts, chalfont st Peter, Chalfont St Giles, Fulmer, Denham, Iver, Iver Heath, Wexham, Richings Park, Old Windsor, Cranbourne, Reading, caversham, Princes Risborough, Ellesbrough, Bishopstone, Stone, Aylesbury, Dinton, Cuddlington, Haddenham.

We cover all county districts Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire offering the best advice and service for Swimming pool liner installations. 

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During the season we at Deep End Pools are often called back to existing clients houses to pull out the winter debris cover and give it a good inspection ready for the winter season. This may sound mad however when swimming pools are opened usually during March, April, and May the days can often be wet or certainly the ground can be.

So a revisit to pull out the winter debris cover giving it a good clean or even a review is a good idea, provisioning for a winter debris cover for your swimming pool now over the forthcoming weeks prior to the end of the swimming pool season is a jolly good idea.

Often you will be able to beat the winter cover rush, ordering new cover leads times can go from 1 week to 3 weeks in the winter season so thinking of a new winter debris cover for your swimming pool then beat the rush!

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Once again the UK’s most televised swimming pool, on channel 4’s Big Brother pushes the boundary of swimming pool design within the UK.

Let’s face it swimming pool construction can become a little uniform, everyone expecting a true blue, inviting plunge, of crystal clear water this it delivers very well however how about a contrasting red coloured pool surround this nobody could have seen coming!

Decking around swimming pool surrounds has been very popular over the last few years, however changing the perspective of this decking to become a stained timber truly is a brave bold and potentially new statement for swimming pool surrounds.

Year on year we are asked to build and mimic the style and design of the big brother swimming pool in and around our surrounding territories Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire we simply cannot wait to offer services to anyone looking to push the envelope and give the latest big brother swimming pool journey to their back yard.

You will even notice within the swimming pool, the skimmer and return fittings have been matched in colour to mask the free board appearance of traditional skimmers being white in colour against the blue liner.

 We must admire the Big Brother production team for coming up with a unique design, non comparable to anything currently marketed within the UK swimming pool industry, and we are proud to be a part of it being the builders and suppliers for the UK’s most televised swimming pool.

If you are looking to really tune in to a style of swimming pool construction and feel the taste for something different then contact deep end pools of Taplow Berkshire and Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire.

01494 671787

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You can now see pictures of Deep End Pools winning there award of Distiniction at the 2008 Bishta awards.

We won the award for our unique design of a barrel tub that has no filtration or pumps and only works on natural convection using a log burner.

The Trade were very impressed by our unique design and we were very happy with the evenings results.

BISHTA SITE  

We were on a very tight time schedule and needed to do 3 days work in 1 day! 

We managed to get it done.

Deep End Pools, 

I just wanted to extend our thanks to your Electrician for working so hard on Saturday, we are extremely grateful.

 Please can you pass this on to him.

 many thanks

 This is the kind of feedback that makes all the hard work worth while.

Dear Deep End Pools,

Now we are into our 2nd week of having our new tub I have just managed to get out for long enough to send you this note! The tub is great and is exactly what we hoped for, but what I really wanted to make sure you are aware of is how fabulous you and the people you have working with you are.  You are all some of the friendliest, hard working and helpful people to have dealt with, it was an absolute pleasure. Not many times do people ‘harp on’ more about the service than the product itself…perhaps that is why you are still in business when others have failed!

Thanks again,

Sue Bradley.

There is a lot of confusion between pH and Total Alkalinity so what is the difference?

The pH is a very important factor. Certain chemical processes can only take place when water is at a certain pH. For instance, chlorine reactions only take place when the pH has a value of between 6,5 and 8.

The pH is an indication for the acidity of a substance. It is determined by the number of free Hydrogen ions (H+) in a substance.

The result of a pH measurement is determined by a consideration between the number of H+ ions and the number of hydroxide (OH-) ions. When the number of H+ ions equals the number of OH- ions, the water is neutral. It will than have a pH of about 7.

Total Alkalinity 

The Definition of Alkalinity is ; A measure of the amount of acid that a given volume of water can absorb without substantially changing its pH.

The total amount of alkaline materials present in water. Total Alkalinity is a pH buffer – the measure of the pH’s ability to change. If too high (above 200ppm), it makes pH hard to adjust. If too low (below 80ppm), the pH will fluctuate excessively.

Deep End Pools recently embarked upon a project on a swimming pool in Ickenham Middlesex, the existing swimming pool had recently had the liner changed by a local swimming pool company in Bucks and seemingly there were some oversights!

The original swimming pool was an old Metal panel swimming pool system installed sometime in the 80’s now heading into some 30 years old the shell was showing some serious signs of wear, which we discovered upon removal of the swimming pool liner.

The swimming pool unfortunately had an incorrect backfill substance allowing the framed chassis of the swimming pool structure to be constantly in contact with moisture, this is very frustrating as the reason for the method of build in this way is simply to save costs on the build via the contractor, the end result became extremely apparent when the liner was removed the soil backfill had penetrated 2 or more swimming pool panels to the point they were split and soil was spilling into the swimming pool!

An extremely precarious situation as the ‘A’ frame braces had also suffered bad corrosion damage; the pool could collapse at any time! Further to the woes the swimming pool floor screed was heavily ingressed with algae this had penetrated through the new swimming pool liner! Less than 12 months old!

We had two options given this scenario, the pool structure was weak and at the point of collapse and the floor screed poorly laid undulating and impregnated with algae. Option 1 fill the pool in option 2 build a pool within the pool!

Option 2 was chosen

Option 2 actually worked out to be more cost effective than filling the swimming pool in due to the restricted access to the house, as the existing swimming pool was a liner hopper swimming pool and more commonly new build swimming pool construction requests are for flat bottomed constant depth pools, we opted to infill the deep end of the swimming pool and form a concrete footing ready to accept the new heat retaining swimming pool block system.

our work began stabilising the existing swimming pool structure, and then casting a concrete footing to accept the new in ground pool, once the swimming pool was up this being only in a matter of 2 days work, we began the concrete infill to the backfill section and the block internal.

Once the pool was built we set upon reshaping the swimming pool floor firstly chemically treating the existing pool floor with an antifungicide then installing a new concrete cast over the infill steel re-enforced then applying our swimming pool liner floor porous screed mix

We finished the pool top with a buff set of certikin lined coping stones 9″ and installed the liner lock ready to accept a certkin liner, to ensure the swimming pools future we installed new certikin skimmers and return fittings adjoining to the original pipe work in the ground after a successful pressure test.

Why the Form works Polystyrene pool kit?

Every new build swimming pool this season we have constructed has been a heat retaining block system the wall is softer than the typical block rendered swimming pool, the structure once full has immense strength when the concrete is in filled. Not to mention the blocks ability to retain heat within the swimming pool.

We aim to install the liner very shortly bringing this family swimming pool back to life for another 30 years!

if you are considering swimming pool depth reduction to reduce costs, or if you shell is looking a little ropey and you would like to reduce the swimming pool size and water volume and switch to an environmentally friendly system and you are located in the Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire districts then why not call upon Deep End Pools and we can review your long term view on swimming pool carbon emissions and heat retaining swimming pool systems.

Call today for a free no obligation survey 01494 671787 and one of our experienced team will visit you.  

Swimming pool re-build in Ickenham Middlesex