How To Choose A Pool Colour

With so many pool colours available, selecting the perfect one for your backyard can be overwhelming. We’re often asked which Designer Beadcrete shade is most popular, but like most trends the hottest colour can shift per season so it’s important to consider a number of factors when deciding on your pool colour.

What’s your vibe?

Before you go too far down the colour path, think about the overall feeling you’re wanting to create from your backyard space. Is there a design style you’re following, such Hamptons, Balinese, Minimalist. You must also consider the existing design elements of your backyard and home exterior, how can you complement these best? Let these factors assist you in determining your colour palette as a starting point.

Water Colour

Your pool is likely to be the centre piece of your backyard, and as such it should reflect your style with wow factor whilst complementing the landscape. Water colour is a huge part of a pool’s visual appeal and consideration on the right hue for your backyard theme and pool landscape should be given. You also need to think about the light and reflection a pool gets when deciding on the Designer Beadcrete colour for your backyard.

Contrast it

Your pool colour should be a contrast from your landscaping and surrounding design elements. If your decking is dark timber, granite, slate or a darker stone you should look at lighter pool shades. Likewise, if your surrounding design is travertine, sandstone or a lighter tile you should think about choosing a dark shade for water colour. 

Shedding a little light on light

It’s important to know that a lighter pool colour is more inclined to draw your eye to the bottom of the swimming pool and you may notice settled debris a little more easily. Lighter water also reflects more sunrays, which can result in cooler pool water, and the potential for more glare. But with the right mix of Designer Beadcrete, these factors can be overcome, if your design requires a lighter shade.

Designer Beadcrete gives you total design control for your pool water colour, with the added benefits:

·      Improved water clarity
·      Extremely low maintenance 
·      Anti-slip surface for improved safety
·      Used in new pools or renovations
·      Resists algae growth and improves pool hygiene

Let Designer Beadcrete colour the pool of your dreams.

Top 5 Tips for a Healthy Summer Pool

Hot days and soothing pool dips are a match made in heaven, but the warmer Summer weather can actually cause problems for your pool or spa.

The extra sun exposure, temperature spikes and increased use of the pool can create issues for pool owners. Most owners don’t realise how much more attention pools require during Summer, especially when they are getting more use.

The prolonged exposure to the sun’s UV rays burns chlorine, which is needed to kill bacteria, and hotter weather also promotes algae growth.

With Summer being the prime time for pool use, the increased swimmer load adds contaminants like sweat, body oils and sunscreen which wash-off in the water and affect the pH levels whilst encouraging bacteria. This can cause swimmer health issues such as throat, eye and ear irritations.

Here’s our top five tips to keep your pool healthy in the heat:

1. Check all pool equipment regularly to ensure it’s running properly

2. Ensure the pH level is within a healthy range

3. Ensure chlorine levels are adequate to disinfect microorganisms

4. Vacuum and skim the pool regularly

5. Organise a professional check-up (on site or take a pool water sample to your pool specialists)

POOL TRENDS WE EXPECT TO SEE IN 2020

If you are planning a pool, then you might want to know the latest pool trends. Knowing the latest trends is very important as advancements in technology has brought plenty of options. 

Gone are the days where you had to excavate plenty of land for the pool. Now the technology has enabled above ground pools where you can install a preformed fibreglass pool anywhere you want. You can get a pool of any shape and size you want.

So let’s take a look at the latest pool trends which might help you to decide the best option:

1. Built-In Ledges and Bars

Gone are the days where pools were just for swimming. Pools are now meant for lounging and socializing. As we all know that pools are great when you want to relax. But now it is not limited to just sitting on the edge or floating on a raft. 

Now you can incorporate built-in ledges and place lounge chairs right in your pool on a sun-deck. Alternately you can put benches and bar stools in your pool for social seating. You have endless options.

2. Smart Lighting

Another amazing pool trend that will continue in the future is the use of smart lighting within and around your pool. There are plenty of options available now due to technology.

You are not limited to one color lighting anymore. You have the option of multicolor lights and you can also control the brightness of the lights. How cool is that when you can change the color of pool lighting according to your mood or according to the specific event. Make your guest wow with this amazing pool trend.

3. Dark Interior Pool Finishes

People are attracted to the serene lagoon-like setting, created by a dark interior pool finishing. Dark finishing also retains heat better than the light finishing reducing your heating cost. The other big advantage of dark finishing is that it does not allow dust and debris to stand out as much as lighter finishing does. 

4. Features to Reduce Energy and Maintenance

People are normally concerned about the cost associated with pools like energy consumption and maintenance requirements. People want an energy-efficient pool with least maintenance needs. In order to achieve that it is a great idea to invest in an automated pool with efficient cleaning and filtration systems. In the long run, this will save your time, energy and money. 

5. Shallow-Depth Pools

Normally pools have both a shallow and deep end. But the new trend is a shallow-depth pool as people want to enjoy exercising or playing water sports. There is an added benefit of low cost as it will reduce the excavation and construction costs. Before you consider this option, you should consider your lifestyle and how you want to use the pool.

Designerite Launches Brand New Website

The team at Designerite is pleased to announce the launch of a new website which will completely revolutionise the way in which our customers interact with us. Our online presence is now capable of matching the quality of our operation, and we’re incredibly excited about what this presence will be able to achieve for our valued clientele. 

We wanted our customers to be able to experience our products 24 hours a day, seven days a week and we've added several features to our website that allow us to do this.

Just some of the new features of our website include:

Fresh and Modern Design: As suppliers of the finest pool finishes and products in Australia, we needed a web design that reflected the style and beauty of our pool finishes. Opening our new site is quite literally like taking a dip in a pool. It’s fresh, invigorating and completely purveys the feeling our customers get when they see our products installed.

Accurate Photos: A key driver behind creating this new website was to provide our customers with actual photos of what their finished Designerite Beadcrete pool will look like. The images on our site are of the highest quality. They have not been altered or filtered at all, so the dazzling blues and inviting light-play you see from the photos on our site is exactly what you will see with your own pool.

Detailed List of FAQs: FAQs are an integral part of interacting with our customers. Clients can now browse this page to discover answers to many of the queries or concerns they might have. Plus, our FAQ page is backed by our extensive support networks which can be accessed online or via phone.

Detailed, Downloadable Application and Maintenance Guides: The provision of application and maintenance guides is another aspect of our round-the-clock customer support. As a supplier of pool finishes and products, we feel as though we must ensure these incredible products are installed and maintained correctly. We love our products, and we want you to enjoy them for as long as possible. With the help of these guides, our customers can be assured of decades of enjoyment.

An Extensive Gallery of Previous Projects and Products: We’re extremely proud of our products, and the projects we’ve completed using these products. There’s no better way to judge the quality of a product than to see it in real life, and our gallery featuring accurate, untouched and high-quality photos gives our customers this representation.

The launch of our new website is the next chapter in the storied history of our Designerite. However, this new episode won't signal a move away from all the qualities and values that have made us a leader in pool finishes and products. We’ll still source only the highest quality products and select certified and skilled tradespeople to install our products to ensure that our clients get the best possible outcome.

We look forward to hearing your feedback on the site, and we know you’ll love the increased connectivity you can now enjoy.