Ask someone who has sold a home with a bespoke swimming pool what the hardest part was, and they rarely mention the solicitors, the chain, or the moving costs. They mention the pool. A family in Aberdeenshire, whose story circulated widely enough to prompt genuine...
A four-bedroom cottage in Cornwall that sits empty three weeks of every August is leaving money on the table. Add a heated pool, list it on Airbnb or Sykes Cottages, and that same property fills those gaps at a higher rate than the comparable listing down the lane...
Most homeowners who install a swimming pool do it for the obvious reasons: somewhere for the children to spend August, a reason to stay home rather than book a villa abroad. What they often discover later is that the pool has quietly done something useful to the...
Most UK homeowners who want a swimming pool still think about it last, sketching it in at the end of a build or landscaping project when budgets are tight and structural decisions are already locked. The properties that genuinely stand out do the opposite. The pool is...
The average UK homeowner spent more time in their garden between 2020 and 2022 than at any point in the previous decade. Many of them looked at that space and decided a basic patch of lawn was no longer enough. Pool installations across the UK rose sharply during this...
A pool that costs £150,000 can still look like an afterthought. That is the uncomfortable truth many homeowners discover only after the digger has left and the landscaper has tried to paper over the joins between a magnificent new house and a pool that was bolted onto...
