5-6 pools each year, with the people who actually do the work involved from the first visit to the first swim.
…and came out with a better way to build swimming pools.
Welly is a Cornish builder who has been building for more than 25 years and knows what hard ground, tight access and Cornish weather do to a build. Luke is a vet who ran a mixed practice in the New Forest for years, and he brings the same care about water quality and reliable systems to every pool we build.
We met as neighbours on the Roseland, built Luke's pool together, and enjoyed it far more than either of us expected. Then other people asked us to build theirs. One of us is on hand at every stage of every build.
We'll always be straight with you. Sometimes the right answer is a large family pool. Sometimes it's a much smaller plunge pool. And sometimes we'll tell you not to build one at all.
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From lawn to swimming in six weeks, so the pool was ready before the photographer arrived.
A dark, heated family pool that sits quietly among the trees.
Curved steps into the shallow end and sandstone copings all the way round.
An existing pool brought up to holiday-letting standard, safety cover and all, before the first guests.
A beautiful pool still has to work every day for years. These are the parts most people never see, and the ones we spend the most time on.
Designed around your site and its ground, not a standard package dropped into a hole.
Filtration and circulation sized for your pool's shape and how you'll use it, so the water stays clear without a fight.
Sized alongside the insulation and the cover, because the three together decide what the pool costs to run.
Easy to reach, logical and labelled, so whoever services the pool in five years' time can see exactly what we did.
Stone, copings, tiles and liners chosen to look right and to cope with pool water and Cornish weather.
When you have a question, you call the people who built your pool. Aftercare and servicing
“We couldn’t have found better partners for our pool build than Luke, Llewellyn and their team. We were initially cautious, but they helped us create a very sympathetic design, both for its location and our planned use. Every step of the process was on time and budget and to the high specification we expected. Since completion, as we’ve had to learn maintenance and had various questions, they’ve been with us the whole way. A great team.”
“We were extremely pleased with the whole experience of working with Verdun, Welly, Luke & their team to build us a brilliant family pool. They have been so helpful & thorough from design, through build and even maintenance of the pool.”
“Polmenna took on an almost impossible deadline and hit it. Professional throughout, quick to answer every query, and still looking after us long after the water went in.”
As a guide, a typical 11m × 4.9m heated family pool, fully built and ready to swim, is around £120,000.
The size of the pool, access to the site, retaining walls, the finish, the cover, landscaping, infinity edges and pool buildings all move that figure up or down. We'll give you a written quotation after we've seen your site, because we don't like surprises either.
Working with an architect, builder or landscape designer? We're happy to be the specialist pool contractor within a bigger project.
How we work with youThe best first step is a conversation, ideally standing in your garden. Tell us what you're imagining, and we'll tell you honestly what we think will work, what it's likely to cost, and whether we're the right people to build it.
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