Swimming pools

[Jan Moscovitch]

Now our house is nearing completion we are thinking about swimming pools, probably the pre-moulded ones, we do have the planning permission in place.
Does anyone know of a good reputable company or have any words of advice. We live in Montegiorgio and understand there are several companies in Grottazzolina. Siarplast has been mentioned as very good and reliable but also extremely expensive.
Jan and Tim

[annec]

Not a local Italian company, but they are a lot cheaper than the others - Christal Pools - WELCOME TO CHRISTAL POOLS.
Depends if you mind having a figure of eight shaped pool. We've had one fitted and its fine for our needs

[aries-project]

Try Piscine - Piscina- prefabricate - piscine costo - piscine esterne - piscine prefabbricate - costruzione piscine - piscine da giardino - prezzi piscine interrate we have a pool from this company (water-air) great quality and a very good price.

[villa sibillini]

We have had ours since 2004 and would definitely have the same again - although bigger. Ours come from Gramaglia, who are at Osimo (near Ancona) and would thouroughly recommend them.

[damiano]

We used a company from Macerata GSM video_gsm who do pools and irrigation, the system is new to Marche, but not Italy, and consists of interlocking polystyrene blocks that sit on a concrete foundation and are filled with reinforced concrete, the whole unit is then lined. For a 14metre pool we paid €20,000 plus excavation, labour and geometras fees, all of which you need to price match. There are geometras who'll do your pool plans for €500 rather than 10% of project cost, excavation reckon on €70-€80 an hour for a JCB, so about €1000, and for the labour try and get a builder on a day rate-- it's an easy job and probably took our builders 11-12 mandays. The system is good and the results are excellent

[villa sibillini]

A friend of ours has had a block system and it looks fine, however at the end of the process the pool took much longer due to weather restrictions etc and cost more than the quote he had for the resin one from Gramaglia.

The great thing about the resin types are that they are up and running in 3 days - all you need before is a jcb or mini digger to make the hole and sand for it to sit on. Happy to have a chat if you need more info - or come and see ours.

If you are renting out they are much less hassle and there is no chance of torn liners!

Ours took one week in total after permissions, and the other great benefit with gramaglia was that everything was supplied from pumps,filters, lights, cleaning equipment, hoses, chemicals right down to a testing kit.

You also usually need a geologist (your geometra will organise this) and the pool cannot be filled with town water - you can order a tanker unless you have a well.

Hope this helps

[Angie and Robert]

Just a query Pam, are you saying that all pools must be filled by tanker and not use the town water?.
A

[villa sibillini]

Hi Angie and Robert, yes that is the case - you can be heavily fined unless of course you have another source of water like a well.

regards

Pam

[Noble]

Perhaps it's obvious but a well pump will take time to fill a swimming pool because it cannot simply be left on indefinately to pour water into the pool or it will burnt out the motor. Depending how big the pool and good the well water supply is, it can take days/weeks. Swimming pool water gets "tired" and so needs changing every 7 to 10 years some say 6 to 8 years. So much to learn!!

[alan h]

Originally Posted by Noble

.......... Swimming pool water gets "tired" ..........

What does "tired" water look like? - and what does it stop doing when its "tired"?

[serious question - but it does have its humorous side]


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