Swimming pool repairs in Canterbury, inside the old city walls and beyond.

Working on tight and older sites

Inside the walls, getting a van close to a building is not always simple. Before we start we agree where materials can be unloaded, how they reach the pool hall and where waste is kept, so the work does not get held up on the first morning.

Pools in older buildings can also bring surprises behind the tiles, such as earlier repairs laid over one another or backgrounds that move differently from modern blockwork. We tap test, look closely at the joints, and tell you where something may need opening up before we can be sure.

The kinds of pools here

Canterbury is a university city and has several independent schools, so teaching and sports pools are common. There are also hotel and health club pools, public leisure pools, and private pools in the villages of east Kent and in holiday homes along the coast towards Whitstable and Herne Bay.

• School and university pools
• Hotel and health club pools
• Private pools in village homes
• Holiday let pools on the north Kent coast
• Pool surrounds and changing areas

Finding why tiles keep failing

If the same area of a pool keeps losing tiles, replacing them again rarely solves it. We look for the cause first, which can be a failed bed, missing movement joints, or water getting behind the finish, and suggest a repair that deals with it.

Mosaic and patterned pools need extra care so repairs sit well with the original. Spare tiles kept from the first installation make a big difference.

Once tiles are relaid, the adhesive and grout are given the cure time the manufacturer asks for before the pool is refilled. Cutting that short is one of the common reasons repairs fail early, so we build it into the programme from the start rather than squeezing it at the end.