Bluepools has now launched its new range of insulated swimming pools in France that carry a lifetime unqualified structural guarantee

Jonzac, Charante-Maritime, France October 18, 2005 — Bluepools has now completed an intensive three year long research project into the best type of swimming pool for its primary market in South West France. The firm intends to extend its installation capacity across France by the end of 2006 now that it has identified the optimimum approach to the provision of very high quality, structurally guaranteed swimming pools that provide the best value for money. The new website is www.bluepools.co.uk
The firm is managed by a father and son team of qualified civil engineers and is uniquely capable of analysing the soil conditions at each different sites where it has installed swimming pools and other works. Their research has shown that at 8 out of the 10 sites the subsoil consisted of filled ground or alluvial clay. The limestone rock that dominates the geology of SW France only occured at 2 of the sites. The rock is always there - but invariably at a deeper depth than the foundation of the pool
The proponderance of the fill and clay subsoil has serious implications for the suppliers and installers of kit and liner pools.
They are not suitable in filled ground because of the highly variable weak soil conditions. They are also not suitable for clay soil condition because of the clays tendency to expand when wet and shrink when dry. When a large hole is dug in clay subsoil and a pool is installed, the void around the pool that is normally back filled with gravel by kit installers, will inevitably fill up with water in winter like a buried ditch. The combined swelling clay and water pressure can cause the liner to lift off the pool wall and perhaps even the collapse of the pool walls.
Bluepools now provides a lifetime unqualified structural guarantee on its polystyrene block reinforced concrete pools. There are now a variety of dense polystyrene blocks available in France that are used for the construction of swimming pool walls . The blocks are normally between 1m and 1.5m long, 250 mm wide and 250 mm deep. This allows the construction of pool walls either 1m, 1.25m or 1.5m deep with greater depths provided by a hopper at one end that can provide up to an extra 1m of depth. The blocks are erected on a reinforced concrete footing and then filled with reinforced concrete to provide a very stiff and rigid wall that is very quick and easy to install and is suitable for all ground conditions. But even with these very strong walls Bluepools always installs both sub-pool and wall perimeter drainage in every pool that it builds.
It was a happy co-incidence that the blocks not only provide a very flat and true surface for the liner to lie against but also 100 mm of insulation that makes the pool water warmer and cheaper to heat.
In its pursuit of providing the best value for money in France, Bluepools incorporates the best quality pool fittings, filtration equipment, covers and many other element that other pool installers charge for as extras. The optimised filtration equipment provides pool water turnover in 6 to 8 hours and this ensures that the pool water is always healthy.
For more information please go the website at www.bluepools.co.uk