Archive for Swimming Pool News

The Daily Mail have today released an article about how Heather Mills is fighting to keep her £1million swimming pool at her residence in Robertsbridge, East Sussex.

Apparently the star decided to have her extrememly expensive new swimming pool built without the thought for planning permission. At 40ft x 22ft it’s a fair size swimming pool which attracted the attention of the local authorities who came around to check she’d taken… read the rest of “Heather Mills Puts Out Fires With Her Swimming Pool!”

In and around our area there are a fair few schools with swimming pools. Inevitably we supply them with a lot of their chemicals. Recently we were called out to a local primary school to drop off some chlorine and when we got there we were amazed at what we found.

The school had just laid out over £150,000 on a brand new swimming pool for their children. This initially sounded expensive… read the rest of “Pool company takes school for a ride.”

We’ve come across this crazy man from America who’s decided he wants to spend his days diving into just 12 inches of water - that’s a paddling pool!!

He is now the world record holder for the highest shallow dive into 12 inches of water. I can’t imagine there’s much competition to try and take it away from him. His record now sits at a massive 35 feet!

Where do they find… read the rest of “Shallow Pool Water - Please dive?!”

A new craze is sweeping across the UK called ‘dipping’. Dipping involves identifying private homes with outdoor swimming pools and then ‘dipping’ in the pool, without permission, when the owners are away at work or on holiday.

Police in Dorset have reported illegal pool parties, or dips, having been arranged using Google earth to identify… read the rest of “UK Dipping Craze Gains Momentum”