Best Residential Swimming Pool
Mountain Stream by Sun City Pools
Despite the difficulty of the site, Sun City Pools has created a pool that blends perfectly with the natural environment.
Owner Tony Hartigan said the Mountain Stream project was a work in progress that evolved from the unusual surrounds.
“It proves our ability to envision a completed landscape and design a pool that flows seamlessly through the property,” Tony said.
“This award is an acknowledgment of our efforts and commitment to create lifestyles that suit our clients’ different needs and to be able to bring their dreams to reality.”
Due to the difficulty of the site and Sun City Pools’ knowledge of the extent of the rock underground, the Mountain Stream project was quoted and sold as a concept only.
The customer brief was to create a natural environment that would blend with the existing natural exposed rock and flowing creek.
“The difficulty of access to the site required Sun City Pools to completely fill the pool’s structural shell after it had been built with roadbase to facilitate access for machinery to reach behind the pool to construct the water features using rocks sourced entirely from the excavation,” Tony said.
“Natural groundwater had to be continually pumped from the excavation site while digging and steeling and then from the sprayed shell prior to completing the pebble interior due to groundwater flow.”
The swimming pool’s interior finish is a natural blend of 1-3mm pebble with a Himalayan Quartz bullnose coping and surrounds with Magnesium Mineral sanitisation and Spa Electric multi coloured LED lighting.
The extended tiled surrounds have remained extremely stable with no evidence of tile or grout cracking even after the dry and wet seasonal changes.