Ground
A pool built in sand
The site is sand, so the shell sits on twenty-one screw piles rather than relying on the ground beneath it to carry the load.
Cranbourne · 2024
Entertaining Elegance
Entry
Concrete Pool category, VIC
Project overview
Built for this home, this site and this family.
This Niebla medium blue glass mosaic, fully tiled concrete pool in Cranbourne was planned around the people who use it, the conditions under it and the home beside it. A fully tiled concrete pool in Cranbourne with a wide shallow bench, built on twenty-one screw piles because the ground underneath is sand.
- Pool model
- Custom concrete pool, 10 x 4.5 metres
- Finish
- Niebla medium blue glass mosaic, fully tiled
- Location
- Cranbourne
Project decisions
What shaped the solution.
Excavation
Two metres, and caving
At two metres deep the walls kept collapsing, so about twenty square metres of below-ground boxing was used to hold the ground and form the pool.
Family use
One bench, two purposes
A large shallow bench takes submerged lounges for the adults and doubles as the standing zone the children use most of the time.
01 / The starting point
The brief
The family asked for a large tiled pool the children could use every day, and they wanted none of the weekly upkeep landing back on the household.
A social bench was part of the request from the start, wide enough and shallow enough to hold submerged lounges and still work as a play area.
The pool also had to sit inside a working backyard. Basketball, football and cooking on the back patio all had to keep their space around it.
02 / Site and construction
The build
The block is sand. Twenty-one screw piles were driven before any concrete went in, so the shell is carried by the piles rather than by ground that moves.
Excavating to two metres proved the point. The walls kept caving, and about twenty square metres of below-ground boxing was needed to hold the dig open and form the pool.
With the structure resolved, the plant was built for a household that does not want to think about it: in-floor cleaning, automated chemistry, a hidden blanket and solar.
Forty-five square metres of roof-mounted solar carries the water temperature through the shoulder seasons, so the heating load sits on the sun rather than the meter.
03 / Shape, finish and use
The design
The interior is fully tiled in a medium blue Niebla glass mosaic. Tile gives the water a denser, more even colour than a rendered finish and holds it as the light changes.
A large shallow bench runs across one end. It takes submerged lounges, gives the children somewhere to stand, and keeps the full swimming length clear of both.
The blanket system sits hidden below the coping, so the pool edge stays clean and nothing has to be dragged away before anyone gets in the water.
In-floor cleaning, automatic levelling and monitored chemistry run underneath all of it. The pool holds its condition between visits rather than waiting for a weekend.
What sits behind the water
Systems specified for the brief.
The equipment below was selected for this completed pool and the way its owners wanted to use it.
A tiled entertainer that changed how the whole backyard is used, and asks for very little back.
System direction
- In-floor cleaning
- Hidden pool blanket
- Automated pH and ORP monitoring
- Solar heating
Installed equipment
- In-floor cleaning system
- Sunbather Down Under blanket system
- Astralpool 30 inch Media Filter
- Astralpool 2hp variable speed pump
- Halo self-cleaning chlorinator with pH control and automated ORP
- Astralpool high performance multicoloured LED lights with remote control
- Waterco auto water leveller
- 45 square metre Precision Solar system with Astralpool E230 pump
Completed project
Seen from every side.
A tiled entertainer that changed how the whole backyard is used, and asks for very little back.
Eight views from the completed Cranbourne project.
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A moving gallery of the completed pool.
- Fully tiled concrete pool beside the home in Cranbourne
- Long view along the tiled concrete pool in Cranbourne
- Aerial view of the tiled pool, lawn and outdoor areas in Cranbourne
- Glass mosaic tiling on the shallow bench and steps in Cranbourne
- Covered alfresco and outdoor dining area beside the pool in Cranbourne
- Poolside loungers beside the shallow bench in Cranbourne
- Overhead view of the concrete pool and paved surround in Cranbourne
- Garden and pool viewed from the side of the home in Cranbourne
Entry
SPASA Victoria 2024
Concrete Pool category, VIC
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