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Practical guides for owners, villa managers and hotel engineers in Phuket and across Thailand: what goes wrong with pools here, what to check and what to do next.
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Pool tiles coming loose in Phuket: causes, inspection and repair options
In Phuket, pool tiles usually come loose for a few reasons: daily heating at the waterline, water that slowly dissolves cement grout, movement in the shell or terrace, bedding that has aged, and earlier repairs that did not hold. Open joints then let water into the bed behind the tiles. This guide explains what an inspection looks at and how to choose between spot repair, regrouting and taking the pool back to the shell.Borehole water and pool stains in Phuket: why pools turn brown or green
Pools filled from a borehole, a lake or a river turn brown or green mainly because the water carries dissolved iron and manganese. You cannot see the metals in the fill water; once they meet the pool's water treatment they come out of solution, colour the water and settle as stains. The water can also be acidic, which you cannot see at all.Pool leak or evaporation? How to tell in Phuket and what to do next
Every pool in Phuket loses some water to sun and wind. To tell whether yours is also leaking, compare its drop in level with a bucket of pool water over the same period: if the pool drops noticeably more than the bucket, water is escaping somewhere, and the next step is to find where.Flooded pool pump rooms in Phuket: causes, damage and protection options
An underground pump room keeps equipment out of sight and out of earshot, but in the monsoon it can leave pumps, filters and switchboards standing in water. If yours has flooded: stay out of the water, keep the power off and have a licensed electrician check the electrics before anything is restarted. To stop it happening again, the pump room is either moved above flood level or protected where it is with raised pumps, relocated switchboards, back-up drainage and level switches.What drives the scope and budget of a villa pool in Phuket
The scope and budget of a villa pool in Phuket are driven by the site and access, the ground and groundwater, the size, depth zones and edge type, the structure and waterproofing, the equipment, finish and features, and the timing around the monsoon. Two pools of a similar size can end up with very different scopes, so this guide sets out each factor, without quoting prices, so you can plan ahead and compare quotations on the same basis.Monsoon rain and salt-water pools in Thailand: what heavy rain changes and how to manage it
Heavy rain dilutes a salt-water pool: the salt level, the sanitiser and the water balance all drop as rain and runoff come in and water leaves through the overflow, so the chlorinator makes less sanitiser. Rain also brings leaves and soil, fills balance tanks, floods low pump rooms and raises the groundwater around the shell. Managing it means testing the water on site after rain, checking the pump room and its drainage pumps, and fixing tank openings and drains that let rain and garden runoff in.Logos, patterns and step markers in a pebble or glass pool finish
Logos, geometric patterns, colour zones and contrasting step finishes can be laid by hand directly into a PebbleCrete or PebbleCrete Glass surface, or set into an existing tiled pool. Work inside the pool is done in a drained, dry pool after an inspection, so it is planned together with any other drained work; logos in walkways and decks are laid outside the pool.When to renovate a hotel or resort pool in Thailand: seasons, rain and keeping the hotel open
In Thailand, hotels and resorts keep busy periods clear by doing pump room, surround and waterline work with the pool open, and save drained shell renovations for quieter booking windows — timed around the rains and the site's groundwater, because an open shell needs dry conditions. Starting with an on-site inspection lets you separate urgent repairs from planned shutdowns.A pool pump room in a tropical climate: humidity, flooding, corrosion and space
Damp underground pits, monsoon flooding, failing valves and cramped pipework are common problems in pool pump rooms in Phuket and across Thailand. We protect them with waterproofing, raised pump plinths, outdoor weatherproof switchboards, drainage pumps and ventilation or air conditioning, simplify crowded pipework and, where space allows, move the plant above ground — for villas, hotels and resorts.Pool climate control in Phuket: warm water in the rainy season, cool water in April
Most of the year a Phuket pool is simply pleasant.Short answers
Does a new pool finish stop a leak?
No. A finish is not waterproofing. Find and repair the leak first, then refinish.Why does white scale form on a salt-water pool in Thailand, and what can be done?
White scale on a salt-water pool in Thailand is calcium coming out of the water: warm water, evaporation and a pH that drifts upwards — which salt chlorination encourages — leave calcium carbonate on the finish, at the waterline and on the plates of the salt cell. At the waterline it bakes together with body oils, suncream and dust into a hard crust. It is dealt with by on-site water testing and balancing, and by cleaning the deposits in a way that suits the surface after a small test patch.Tell us where the pool is and what you want changed.
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