Sequence
Pool first, house second
The pool went in before the renovation started, which meant setting its height and levels against a house that did not exist yet.
Carnegie · 2024
Renovation Ready: The Pool Went In First
Entry
Fibreglass Pool category, VIC
Project overview
Built for this home, this site and this family.
This Bluestone Sequins fibreglass pool in Carnegie was planned around the people who use it, the conditions under it and the home beside it. An Eden 8m fibreglass pool craned into a tight Carnegie block before the house renovation began, with its height set for the works to come.
- Pool model
- Eden 8m
- Finish
- Bluestone Sequins
- Location
- Carnegie
Project decisions
What shaped the solution.
Access
No swing over the house
Powerlines ruled out craning the shell over the roof, so the pool was brought into position through a tight side access instead.
Programme
A few weeks to place it
The window between the owners' plans and the start of demolition was short, so delivery and placement were booked around the builder's start date.
01 / The starting point
The brief
The owners came with a clear picture and reference images. The house was about to be stripped back and rebuilt, and the backyard was part of that plan from the beginning.
They wanted the pool visible from everywhere: the patio, the dining table and the day bed. That ruled out tucking it into a corner out of the way.
The Eden 8m suited the block. It gave them swimming length and a social platform without eating the whole yard on a tight inner-suburban site.
Installing before the renovation was their call, and the right one. Getting machinery in after the new house was finished would have been far harder.
02 / Site and construction
The build
Powerlines ran across the block, so swinging the shell over the roof was never an option. It came in through a tight side access with the crane set where it could reach.
The programme was short. A few weeks covered delivery, placement and backfill, timed so the pool was in the ground before the builder started demolition.
Height was the detail that mattered most. The pool level had to suit paving, decking and door thresholds that were still only lines on the renovation drawings.
Get that wrong and the finished house sits a step off its own backyard. It was set once, checked against the plans, and left alone.
03 / Shape, finish and use
The design
Bluestone Sequins was chosen against the white weatherboard and the dark fence. The deep blue holds its own beside a pale house rather than washing out next to it.
The Eden shape gives a clear swimming length with a broad social platform at one end, which is where most of the time in this pool is actually spent.
Position was set so the water is in view from the patio, the dining table and the day bed, which was the brief the owners arrived with.
Everything around it came later: paving, planting, the pergola and the new house. The pool was the fixed point the rest of the renovation was built around.
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 finished backyard that was decided first and built around, instead of the other way round.
System direction
- Cartridge filtration
- Salt chlorination
- Heat-pump heating
- Colour-changing LED lighting
Installed equipment
- Astralpool Cartridge filter
- Astralpool pump
- Astralpool Chlorinator
- Astralpool LED colour changing lights x 2
- Oasis Heat pump
Completed project
Seen from every side.
A finished backyard that was decided first and built around, instead of the other way round.
Eight views from the completed Carnegie project.
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A moving gallery of the completed pool.
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- Pergola seating beside the pool edge in Carnegie
- Poolside loungers and pergola in Carnegie
- Covered deck looking out over the pool in Carnegie
Entry
SPASA Victoria 2024
Fibreglass Pool category, VIC
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