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A brief reflection…
A beautiful professionally constructed swimming
pool makes an impressive statement and presents
the realisation of a lifelong dream. It is a pleasure
out of the ordinary not necessarily essential but
like all luxuries, highly desired. It will reflect your
achievements in life, your taste, and your love of life.
It will come to hold lasting memories of wonderful
times. It will bring you endless enjoyment.
Most people will have a vision of their own swimming
pool in their mind’s eye. At Portrait Pools, we have
nearly 3 decades of experience and expertise to
take that a step forward, to open up the countless
possibilities and to capture the essence of your
lifestyle. We love nothing better than to take your
initial concepts and deliver you with something you
could never have imagined would be possible and
most importantly it would be yours.
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Indoor Residential Projects
Portrait Pools have become synonymous with producing beautiful, high
quality, award winning pools; that will enhance any property from converted
barn to stately home. Our vast knowledge, consummate skill and unrivalled
experience will ensure that your pool functions as beautifully as it looks. Our
indoor pools, spas and wellness suites transform any space into a fantastic
sanctuary where the family can relax and be entertained whatever the
season. We combine the best in functionality and versatility with the latest
state of the art technology to deliver the ultimate luxury experience.
Personal free time has never been as precious as it is in today’s fast moving
society. Owning your own personal leisure suite will give you the freedom to
take time out and relax to prolong your health and wellbeing.
Our knowledge, expertise and commitment means each pool is a unique statement of its owner; whether
you want a pool to keep fit, keep the young and young at heart happy or simply your own personal utopia,
you can be sure our knowledge and commitment means your pool will be distinctive in its own right.
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Outdoor Residential Projects
There are very few greater pleasures in life, on a beautiful summer’s day,
than relaxing in your own outdoor swimming pool. Our swimming pools, while
maintaining a clean, beautiful look in the landscape, add real individuality to the
home environment and extend your style to the outdoors.
So, whether you use your pool for fun, fitness or just to relax, our designers aim to
create an aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space that reflects your needs and
surpasses the highest expectations.
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Design & Computer
Generated Images (CGI)
From your initial enquiry to the moment you take the plunge for the first time, you will find
our service matches the quality of our pools every inch of the way. After an amazing showroom
experience and initial consultation to agree budgetary figures, we produce concepts for the project in
the form of CAD drawings. We then consult with you and fine tune until you are completely satisfied
and have approved every detail.
There is then the option for us to produce a Computer Generated Image so you can visualise
everything perfectly with photorealistic images of how your project will look. Once you give your final
approval you can be sure your dream pool will be built to award winning standards.
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CGI
CGI
Finished build
Finished build
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Lighting & Ceiling Effects
Our expert designers use specialist lighting and ceiling effects to improve the overall
impact of the development. Clever use of lighting above and surrounding a pool or spa
is responsible for creating and controlling the ambience, atmosphere and mood.
Stretch ceilings offer a world of possibilities. They hide unsightly building features,
light/alarm and air conditioning fixtures behind a strong, stretched flexible membrane.
It has good acoustic properties along with vapour control and has a surface that can
be digitally printed with any design that will have a powerful effect by maximising the
reflection of light and ripples from your pool.
Combining clever lighting with a printed stretched ceiling creates an immersive visual
experience that vastly enhances the pool or spa development.
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Fountains & Water Features
Whether they mimic nature or create an exciting, revitalising feature, waterfalls and
water features are used to add sophistication and beauty to homes. Grandiose or a
subtle water feature enhances any development.
The features are calming and soothing and are constructed from a vast range of
lavish natural materials; they have a universal appeal that all ages can admire and
enjoy. You will be excited to share this ultimate luxury with family and friends.
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Moving Floors
Like the roll-on room, moveable floors provide you with an additional
useable space in your home. This highly flexible system delivers the
luxury of raising or lowering the floor of your pool to any preselected
water depth. This provides safer, shallower depths of water for children
or to enable disabled persons with special needs to benefit from the
pool. As well as the additional space when the floor is fully raised, the
energy costs for heating are greatly reduced. It will transform your pool
room into a function room in minutes with the press of a button.
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Auto Pool Covers

As well as looking good an automatic pool cover has many very useful functions. At the turn of a key it can offer a superb safety barrier that
protects your family from harm. In addition, pool owners benefit from cost efficiencies from the reduction of water and chemical evaporation,
lower heating and operational costs as well as the barrier keeping dirt and debris out of the pool which helps lower overall maintenance costs.
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Roll-On Room

Our clients demand the very best
and we make sure we can deliver it in
each and every project we undertake.
Innovation is an integral part of
everything we do and our designers
are continually looking for new,
more efficient and inventive products
that can enhance the overall pool
experience.
A perfect example of this is what
we call our ‘roll-on room’. We can
create a multi-functional area that
will give you so many options. At
the flick of a switch a solid floor
will glide across to safely cover your
beautiful swimming pool and create
a new space. Available on new build
pools and as a retrofit, a rolling floor
is a versatile safe and secure pool
covering solution. The roll-on floor
transforms an indoor pool into a
party space or a games room and
complemented by a cinema, bowling
alley and bar, the latest residential
spa developments set new standards
in extravagance. The floor looks
fantastic and is finished with a wide
range of products from natural stone,
ceramic tiles or even timber to match
the remainder of your pool surround.
The technology is state of the art and
the effect is breathtaking.
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Wellness
At the end of the day, there is no better place
to unwind and relax than in your own pool. It is
the perfect environment but we can offer you so
much more… and your own personal ‘wet area’ can
enhance the whole experience.
We build spas, saunas, steam rooms and Hydro spas,
all of which can be incorporated into the design of
your pool ensuring that each element will blend
perfectly into the overall concept. This is about
taking the pleasure you get from your pool to a
different level and it’s about enjoying life to the full.
Portrait Pools have recently partnered up with one
of the World’s leading luxury Thermal Wellness
equipment suppliers, Sommerhuber. A selection
of their fantastic product range is shown in this
brochure, further examples can be experienced in
our New Wellness Showroom.
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Photo: Sommerhuber
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Civil Engineering
We personally manage every element of the project from design through
to installation. This ensures each project hits all our strict timing, quality
and budgetary performance indicators.
All factors are carefully considered, these key considerations include:
● Site conditions
● Proposed use of basement
● Basement construction type (substrate material)
● Necessity to protect against soil contaminants / ground gasses
● Tanking Systems
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From first foundations…

…to finishing touches
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Maintenance
Our service doesn’t stop when your pool is completed as we provide
an all-encompassing maintenance service that defines the standards
within the industry. We will ensure that everything is working as
perfectly as it was on completion and you will be able to purchase pool
chemicals, covers and equipment directly from us.
In the highly unlikely event of there being a problem we have a 24-hour
helpline. Your complete satisfaction and reassurance is our priority.
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Environmental Policy
We recognise our responsibility towards protection of the environment and
we are committed to minimising the environmental impact of our products
and business activities. To fulfil this policy, we ensure that every aspect of our
activities is conducted in accordance with sound environmental practices. This
includes: minimising the consumption of natural resources and energy, reducing
the creation of waste by recycling of materials whenever practical and most
importantly promoting new products and processes that have an improved
environmental performance.
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Commercial projects
Portrait not only works within the residential market but has successfully
completed a wide range of projects in the public sector including schools,
leisure centres, hotels, wellness centres and and health Spas. Large
commercial projects require an innovative, proactive approach. Portrait
has the specialist expertise and industry knowledge to see a project from
initial design through to handover.
We both design and install Commercial pools of all sizes as turnkey
projects. From the initial concrete base through to energy efficient water
and air handling systems, environmental control, automatic chemical
dosing to the most intricate finishing touches ensuring that everything
is completed to the highest SPATA standards. We also provide integral
spas, steam and sauna rooms and hydrotherapy pools; the complete
commercial package.
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Everything Under One Roof
As the UK’s leading luxury Spa and pool provider, Portrait are continually innovating and investing in our proposition to ensure our customers get
the finest and most comprehensive service. Our quality and distinction is reflected in some of the finest, award winning residential and commercial
swimming pools, spas and water features seen in the UK.
In order to fulfil this ethos, we have opened a new state of the art showroom located in Bollington at the heart of the beautiful Cheshire
countryside. This design led, purpose built showroom perfectly showcases the most comprehensive range of luxury swimming pool finishes, spa and
sauna displays in the UK. Not only can you view displays of Extra-large format Italian porcelain and Ezarri glass mosaics but you can see large digital
printed examples in addition to internal and external natural stone tiles and walling as well as numerous stretch ceiling displays with LED lighting
systems and a selection of the hyper luxury Sommerhuber Wellness product range.
This is not just a showroom; you will experience a functioning steam, spa facility and showpiece bathroom in the main hall. With its additional
space, we now can display a fantastic fully functional home cinema as well as demonstrations of Home automation and lighting systems for the
pool, pool hall and the home. Next to the in-house design studio there are new onsite meeting facilities for your architects, contractors and interior
designers. This one of a kind facility ensures Portrait stay at the forefront of pool, spa and home entertainment design innovation.
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2017
Outstanding Pool of the Year
The Dick Millward Trophy for Pool
Contractor of the Year
Reflecting on our Continued Success
As you flick through this brochure you will see a small selection of the many beautiful commissions we have received over the
last three decades. We have many glowing testimonials from our customers and with over forty top Prestigious Swimming Pool
and Allied Trade Association (SPATA) Awards it is not difficult to understand why Portrait Pools is regarded as the UK’s leading
Pool and Spa provider.
We believe though the greatest measure of our success is our work and the greatest endorsement is the customer referrals and
recommendations we receive from our customers for fulfilling their dreams.
The mission of the British Pool & Hot Tub Awards (SPATA) is to recognise the achievements of the wet leisure industry, by
showcasing the best examples of design, construction, installation and innovation. Portrait has been awarded the Prestigious
National Pool Contractor of the Year on a record four occasions and has won over 100 industry awards for its Residential and
Commercial projects.
GOLD AWARD
Refurbishment Pool of the Year
GOLD AWARD
Residential Indoor Pools over
£200,000
GOLD & SILVER
Residential Indoor Pools £150,000
to under £200,000
BRONZE & SILVER
Commercial Pool of the Year
2 x SILVER
Residential Indoor Pools £100,000
to under £150,000
As the UK’s leading pool and spa supplier, Portrait in 2015 was entered into the third European Pool & Spa Awards hosted
by the European Union of Swimming Pool and Spa Associations (EUSA) at the Piscina & Wellness exhibition in Barcelona.
EUSA represents over 3,000 swimming pool and spa companies across Europe and the awards are judged by top industry
professionals representing the EUSA members. The awards have five categories, with fourteen winners announced across the
13 countries. Portrait was awarded the highest accolade of the European Domestic Indoor Pool Of The Year.
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2015
2013
2011
2008
BRONZE
Residential Indoor Pools over
£100,000
BRONZE
Special Requirements Pools
SILVER
Commercial Pools
GOLD
Residential Outdoor Pools £80,000
and over
GOLD
Residential Indoor Pools over
£100,000
Barcelona 2015
European Domestic Indoor Pool
of The Year
POOL & SPA SCENE
GOLD
Best Website in its Class 2013
2013
SILVER
SPATA Pool of the Year
GOLD
NATIONAL Swimming Pool
Contractor of the Year
SILVER
Non Traditional Installations
GOLD
Sustainability Award
SILVER
Luxury Indoor Swimming Pool
GOLD
Refurbishment of The Year
National Pool Contractor of the
Year
Residential Pool of the Year
Outstanding Pool of the Year
GOLD, SILVER & BRONZE
Residential Indoor Pools £150,000
GOLD & SILVER
Residential Indoor Pools £75,000
and up to £150,000
GOLD
Environmental Award
SILVER
Inground Commercial SPAs
and Health
SILVER
Concrete Pool up to £60,000
2009
Pool Contractor of the Year
Pool of the Year
GOLD
Indoor Concrete Pool
GOLD
Residential Indoor Pool
2005
GOLD
Outdoor Concrete Pool
GOLD
Commercial Pool
2003
GOLD
Outdoor Concrete Pool
GOLD
Indoor Concrete Pool
SILVER
Indoor Swimming Pool
GOLD
Spas & Health Pools
SILVER
Commercial Pool
GOLD
Residential Indoor Pool over
£75,000 and up to £150,000
GOLD & SILVER
Residential Indoor Pool over
£150,000
GOLD
Automatic Retractable Cover
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Visit our showroom
Directions
Portrait Pools, 2 Store Street, Bollington, Cheshire, SK10 5PN
Open 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday
Weekends by appointment
From the North
From Manchester take the A34, after passing
Shrigley Road
Wilmslow take the first exit on the next
roundabout signposted A538 Prestbury.
Travel on this road for approximately 6 miles
through Prestbury village. Turn right onto the
B5090
Queen Street
Ingersley Road
A523 (Silk Road) and at the next roundabout
take the first exit onto flash lane B5091, after
800 meters take a left onto Bollington Road
B5090. Follow this road through the centre of
Parking
Bollington. On the left-hand side of the road
there is pub called the Holly Bush and 50
Store Street
Vine Street
meters further on a public car park. Directly
opposite the car park there is a newsagent
and a road signposted High Street, take this
and then after 25 metres enter Store Street –
the showroom is directly ahead.
Water Street
High Street
Church Street
From the South
Bollington
From Macclesfield take the A523 (Silk Road)
for approximately 4 miles. At the roundabout
take the B5090 sign posted Bollington for 800
metres. Follow this road through the centre
of Bollington. On the left-hand side of the
road there is pub called the Holly Bush and 50
meters further on a public car park. Directly
opposite the car park there is a newsagent
River Dean
and a road signposted High Street, take this
and then after 25 metres enter Store Street –
the showroom is directly ahead.
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