Bradford pool repairs, untangling years of patch work.

Reading the history in the tiles

A pool that has been open for decades often shows its past. Odd tiles of a slightly different shade, grout in two or three colours and filled cracks along the floor all tell us something about where movement or bond failure has happened before.

We map those areas before suggesting anything. A patch that has failed twice in the same spot is rarely bad luck, so we look at the bed, the movement joints and the background behind it rather than simply replacing the tiles again.

Hilly ground and older construction can also mean some movement in the structure. Where cracks in the floor tiles follow a line, we look at whether a movement joint is missing or has been tiled over.

From the city centre to Wharfedale

The Bradford district runs well beyond the city itself, out to Shipley, Bingley, Keighley and Ilkley. Alongside public leisure and school pools there are health club pools and private indoor pools in homes in the Aire and Wharfe valleys.

We take on all of them. A school teaching pool and a private pool in a converted barn wear in very different ways, so we ask how each one is used and heated before we plan the work.

• Public leisure and lane pools
• School teaching pools
• Health club pools
• Private indoor pools in homes
• Changing rooms and poolside walkways

Repair, regrout or start again

Sometimes a careful set of targeted repairs and an epoxy regrout will give an older pool many more years. Sometimes there have been so many failures that a full retile is the more sensible spend. We explain what we found and why we lean one way, and the decision stays with you.

If you still have boxes of the original tiles, tell us. Spare stock makes matching far easier on a pool that has already seen a few colour changes.