Luton pool tile repairs, matching tiles that are no longer made.

Ways to deal with discontinued tiles

The best match is always an original tile. Many pools have a box of spares in a store room or plant room, left over from the build or an earlier repair, and they are worth hunting for before anything else.

Where there are none, we look for the closest current tile in size, colour and finish. A slight difference in thickness or shade shows more on a step nosing or a lane line than in the middle of the floor, so where the repair sits matters.

• Check for spare original tiles on site
• Take sound tiles from a less visible area to repair a prominent one
• Source the closest current tile in size, colour and finish
• Make a deliberate feature band or border rather than a near miss

Pools across Luton and south Bedfordshire

Luton has school and leisure pools, hotel pools serving the airport and the M1, gym and health club pools, and the University of Bedfordshire. Private pools are more common in the villages towards the Chiltern Hills.

School pools here, as elsewhere, are usually worked on in the summer holidays, and that window fills up. If tile matching may take time, it helps to start the conversation in spring.

What helps us judge a repair

Photos of the damaged area beside a sound tile, a note of the tile size and any label from an old box let us start looking for a match before we visit. We still inspect in person before agreeing a price.

When patching stops making sense

There comes a point where a pool has so many mismatched repairs that another one adds little. If we see that, we will say so, and talk through a partial retile of the worst area or a full retile as an alternative. The choice is yours, and we will price whichever scope you want to look at once we have inspected the pool.