Sun Soaker at Clearview

The brief was a full-size family pool for a suburban Clearview backyard bounded by a colorbond fence and an established hedge: easy entry, somewhere to sit in the water, and a pool that stays warm and looks after itself. The design settled on a 7.9m x 3.8m special design shape with a three-step corner entry at the house end, a sun soaker bench seat running the full 7.9m along the fence side, twin laminar deck jets and an in-ground blanket box, with concrete surrounds formed ready for stone paving. Excavation uncovered an underground stream running through the site, which changed how the base was built before the shell went in.

With groundwater entering the excavation, the pool was built on a custom concrete floor base rather than a standard base, with a pump dewatering the pit while the base was placed and cured. Steel wall panels were set and braced over a rubble bed, the bench seat and corner step sections were formed into the shell, and the plumbing was run along the outside of the walls before backfill.

The Aqualux liner in Lindeman was fitted and the pool filled, then the concrete coping and 35 square metres of surrounds were boxed, reinforced and laid with a custom drop edge so the Stonecraft stone paving can go straight onto it.

• 7.9m x 3.8m special design shape
• 1.2m to 1.6m depth
• 3 step corner entry
• 7.9m sun soaker bench seat
• In-ground blanket box
• 2 x Pentair MagicStream laminar deck jets
• Aqualux premium pool liner in Lindeman
• Sunlover Nanotek solar heating
• Mineral X filtration system with pH doser
• Maytronics X25 robotic pool cleaner
• Custom concrete floor base
• 35 square metres of concrete surrounds with a formed custom drop edge, ready for Stonecraft stone paving

The finished pool runs the length of the yard beside the fence, with the bench seat reading as a pale ledge along one side and the corner steps at the house end. The Lindeman liner gives the water a light aqua colour, and the formed concrete surrounds leave a clean drop edge along the garden side ready for the paving to follow. A full-scope build from Adelaide Hybrid Pools, from excavation through to the finished surrounds, on a site that needed more than the standard base.