Build & MEP

Swimming Pools & Water Features

A pool is three things — a concrete tank, a hydraulic circuit and a finish — and only the last one is visible when it is full. We build the shell in sprayed reinforced concrete, size the circulation so the whole volume turns over properly, tile it in glass mosaic over a flood-tested waterproofing layer, and cope it in marble or granite cut on our own lines.

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Scope of works

What we actually do.

Everything below happens inside our business — no subcontracted links in the chain.

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01
Shell & structure
Sprayed reinforced concrete over a tied rebar cage, waterstop at every construction joint, formed steps and benches, and penetrations for lights, returns and main drains cast in rather than cut later. Free-form or rectilinear, on a ground survey rather than a guess.
02
Overflow, deck-level & skimmer systems
Skimmer pools where budget and simplicity lead, and deck-level or infinity overflow where the water surface has to sit flush with the terrace — with a correctly sized balance tank, grating channel and level control. The overflow detail is where cheap pools give themselves away.
03
Circulation & water treatment
Sand or glass-media filters, pumps sized to turn the full volume every four to six hours, hair and lint strainers, backwash to a proper drain, plus dosing and salt chlorination with a plant room laid out so a filter change is not a demolition job.
04
Mosaic, coping & finishes
Glass mosaic set on epoxy adhesive and grouted in epoxy, marble or granite coping in a drop-face or bullnose profile set to a laser line, and matched deck stone in a bush-hammered anti-slip finish.
05
Lighting, heating & jacuzzis
Sealed RGB LED niches on a low-voltage transformer outside the water zone, heat pumps or solar heating for a longer season, and jacuzzis, plunge pools, spillover spas and wall or scupper water features run off the same plant.

Specification

The numbers, before you ask.

Swimming Pools — technical specification
Shell	Sprayed reinforced concrete, 20–25 cm, waterstop at construction joints
Waterproofing	Cementitious slurry over render, flood tested before any tiling
Turnover	Full volume through the filters every 4–6 hours
Finish	2 x 2 cm glass mosaic on epoxy adhesive and epoxy grout
Coping	3–5 cm marble or granite, drop-face or bullnose, laser-set
Sanitisation	Salt chlorination at 3–4 g/L, or dosed hypochlorite

Empty pool corner at night, LED strip lit under the stone coping

Selection

Pools we build

Skimmer poolVillas
The straightforward build — water level roughly 15 cm below the coping, skimmers in the wall, no balance tank. Lower cost to build and to run, and the right answer for most gardens.
Deck-level overflowSignature
Water flush with the terrace, running over a slot or grating on all four sides into a balance tank. Better surface skimming, a far better reflection, and a plant room that has to be planned from day one.
Infinity edgeSea & view plots
A vanishing edge running to a catch basin, set so the water line reads against the horizon from the seating position. Levels are the whole job here — a few millimetres of error shows across a 10 m edge.
Plunge pools & jacuzzisRoof & courtyard
Small volumes with a big equipment count. Counter-current jets, heating, air blowers and seating, engineered against the structure they sit on when they go on a roof or terrace.
Renovation & re-tileExisting pools
Stripping failed mosaic and grout back to the render, repairing the shell, re-waterproofing, re-tiling and replacing plant that has been patched for years.
Water featuresGardens & entrances
Reflecting pools, wall spouts, scuppers and rills, with the same waterproofing and filtration discipline as a swimming pool so they do not turn green.

Gallery

Swimming Pools in place.

Every photograph on this page was taken on one of our sites during the work. Nothing here is a stock image or a render.

Empty pool corner in blue glass mosaic, bullnose stone coping with an LED strip beneath

Limestone coping laid and dressed along the mosaic wall

Finished freeform pool with a wave-pattern mosaic border and underwater lights on, chalets behind

Where it goes

Villa pools
Chalet & compound pools
Infinity & deck-level pools
Plunge pools & jacuzzis
Pool re-tiling & renovation
Filtration plant rooms
Salt chlorination systems
Fountains & water features

Projects featuring swimming pools

Where we have used it.

El Moghra, Siwa — 2026

El Moghra

Turnkey build & finish · Desert lodge · Completed

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Questions we get asked

Swimming Pools — questions we get asked

Skimmer or overflow — which should I build?

Skimmer if you want the pool for swimming and the budget to go into the terrace around it. Overflow if the pool is the view from the living room, because a flush water surface reflects and a sunken one does not. Overflow costs meaningfully more to build and slightly more to run, needs a balance tank and more plant space, and is unforgiving of level errors. Both swim identically.

Salt or chlorine?

Salt chlorination is still chlorine — the cell generates it from salt in the water instead of you carrying tablets. It gives a gentler feel on skin and eyes and a far steadier residual, which is why we specify it on most private pools. The cell is a consumable and the water is mildly corrosive to unprotected metal, so fixings, ladders and lighting all have to be rated for it. Dosed hypochlorite remains the cheaper install.

Why do pools crack and leak?

Ground movement on an unsurveyed base, no waterstop at construction joints, and tiling started before the shell was flood tested. All three are decisions made in the first fortnight. We survey the ground, cast the shell with waterstops, then fill and hold it for seventy-two hours with a marked level before a single mosaic sheet goes on.

Can you re-tile an existing pool?

Yes, and it is a large part of our pool work in Sahel and Alexandria where salt air and years of harsh dosing lift mosaic off cement-based adhesive. We strip to sound render, repair the shell, re-waterproof, and re-lay in epoxy adhesive and epoxy grout, which is what should have been used the first time. The plant usually gets replaced in the same visit.

Is heating worth it on the North Coast?

A heat pump adds roughly two months at each end of the season, which for a chalet used mainly in summer is often not worth the running cost. For a New Cairo or Sheikh Zayed villa used year round it changes the pool from a four-month asset to a nine-month one. We size it against the surface area and always pair it with a cover, because most heat is lost overnight from the surface.

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