Since forever, company owner Andy dreamed of his own waterpark, and this is the way he did it. Exploring silly shapes and interesting water features not so common to Guernsey. Engineering a plant room design to fulfill all things fun but with reliability. The Lotus Lagoon is a showpiece dared to inspire our future works and possibilities. Marking what Lotus Pools ‘could’ do without straight lines.
The ‘Lotus Lagoon’ – Stretching 15m long, and from the bench seat to the top of the beach it spans 9m wide.
Despite the large surface area, the shallow end is designed for children and unusually shallow (0.7m) graded to 1.5m for the most part, and only a particular 2m bowled deep end. Keeping water volume under 80,000litres
No straight wall in sight, Andy wanted curves everywhere. Truly showcasing how versatile our sprayed concrete pool construction can be and a thorough test of the skilled team Lotus Pools are proud of.
Hosting a huge ‘furniture ready’ beach entry, with bubbler fountains for the kids. Disney inspired deck jets, and an 8ft corner waterfall off the pergola, all at touchpad command poolside. Engineered to be abused amongst a mess of water.
Behind the scenes the plant area hosts 5 efficient and quiet, variable speed Badu Eco pumps. Cleverly controlled solar heating, and an oversized 25kW Duratech heapump punching enough heat it needs not worry about much of a cover in peak summer months. Add Primary & secondary filters, getting the turbidity (aka clarity) of the water down to air like transparency.
A white interior, consisting of the Lotus logo Motif, and beautifully shiny iridescent Oyster tile mosaics, helps the Multi colour LED lights reflect brighter than a French discotecque.
Opting for part composite decking, part Ardesia porcelain paving, laid creatively into our beach entry, it is amusing to not always see where the water starts. Unlike natural stone, these porcelain pavers remain the same colour in and out of the water.
Andy and Katrina’s son Jackson, born in July, is destined to have the best pool party birthdays!
to add: plant room, heatpump / RGB lighting / photo of jacksons birthday!
- 15x9m Lagoon shape >2m deep
- Cantilevered Pergola waterfall
- 5 x DeckJets water feature
- Grand Beach Entry with bubbler fountains
- Poolside waterfeatures and lighting controllable + remote control
- 1 x 25kW Duratech Air Source Heat Pump + solar heating
- Insulated pool pipework
- Saltwater Pool
- Primary & secondary filteration system
- 5 x water pumps
- Electrically monitored
Initial groundworks preperation – we needed to be able to control the high water table on the plot. To do this step 1 was to build a well chamber to temporarily lower the water table in the ground prior to the main dig.
Curved forms showing the footprint of the dig we required + a careful excavator! You can see the black material showing the really high water table height we were working with.
Pool dug, to shape, and lined with a bed of clean stone, linked to the well chamber we built prior to digging, this work was vital to control water levels in the area during works.
Spray concrete ‘skins’ the dig to keep it safe while working inside the pool.
A snippet of steel reinforcement, late to be buried in our spray concrete process.
Spray concrete begins… some 80Tonnnes in all to form the pool shell.
Completed pool shell, rendered and screeded awaiting patio works and finishes.
Large amount of pipework laid uncderground toward the plant room. Which will house the numerous pumps and electronics controlled the water features to be…
