Polypool SWOT Analysis- Strengths

• Fully heat retaining

• Latest P.U insulation used

• Lower heating costs

• Fully patented design

• Lifetime guarentees

• Designed and manufactured in the UK

• Turn key solution to liner swimming pool building

• Complete bespoke system pools built to
any size if required

• Pre-plumbed panels with industry standard
Certikin fittings

• Only panel swimming pool system with optional
pre-plumbed swimjets/counter current units

• 1.2m or 1.5m panel as standard with hopper/
deep end profile options

• 35% faster to build than any other system

• Available for professional or DIY installation

• The ultimate indoor swimming pool package

• Instant marking out with unique channel system

• Less spoil removal than competitors systems

• No footings or foundations required

• Less Overdig

• Less backfill

• Lower raw materials cost

Ultra strong lightweight panels for
• easy handling

• No requirement for skilled labour

• Cam locked panels. Simple turn of a key-
No nuts, no bolts, no adhesives, no mortar
and no blocks!

• Built in liner-lock 125 system only

• Corner options include 90 degree, 45 degree

• Cam locked fibreglass bays complete with
insulation

• Full technical support program

• Full range of extras- swimming pool customized to
customer’s requirements

Block and liner pool- Weaknesses

• No heat retention

• Concrete foundations needed

• Blocks supplied by third party

• Skilled labour required to lay blocks

• Labour intensive & time consuming

• Walls require rendering

• Fiberglass bays require fixing to the walls and leveling

• Fittings have to be built into block work and leveled

• Liner lock has to be screwed down
to block

• Corners has to be formed (inserts
or render)

• Scaffolding in swimming pool?

• Ground movement-propensity to
break back of swimming pool




Polymer panel systems -
Weaknesses

• No heat retention

• No insulation

• Low u-values

• Higher all round running costs

• All panels bolted together

• Large X frames every 4ft

• Lager over dig up to 600mm

• More spoil removal

• More raw materials

• More labour required

• Pools filled with water and backfilled at same time for equalisation

• Easier to interface with ground work/main contractor hence lower labour output

• Less raw materials required

• Less capital outlay as swimming pool shell much cheaper than concrete/tiled option

• Fully insulated with running costs as much as 56% less than concrete equivalent

• Life time warrantee on the swimming pool shell

• 15 year warrantee on the Alkorplan heavy duty liner membrane – over the pools 30 year life cycle one replacement liner is far less expensive and time consuming than the required maintenance on the tiled option.

• Much easier and cheaper to maintain than tiles – Water line can be wiped clean with a cloth, whereas tiles become imbedded with grime etc over a period of time

• Allows a tiled finish

• Allows an element of freeform/
shaping for the swimming pool

• This is usually where there is a requirement for a design element which can only be achieved by way of a monolithic shell (something like an overflow spa or vanishing edge)




Concrete Tiled Weaknesses

• Hugely labour intensive

• Very long construction process

• Very expensive

• No insulation hence high running costs

• High maintenance

• Monolithic shells are prone to lifting, shifting and cracking

• Structural movement can lead to higher repair and maintenance costs

• A tiled swimming pool will need re-grouting
every 7-8 years with a 2/3 week down time on every occasion