Pool Covers for Builders & Architects

Q: How long from sign-off to a working cover?

Four to five weeks. That is not a factory lead time with the fitting left open afterwards: it runs from the day you give the go-ahead to the cover being installed and working on the pool. We manufacture in our own workshop in Torrijos, Toledo. If your programme has a fixed date, say so when you ask for the quotation. On a development with several pools we deliver in stages from the fourth week onwards, until they are all installed.

Q: What does the guarantee cover?

Three years on the whole cover, whatever the part. The structure, the motor, the slats and the installation all carry the same three years against manufacturing defects, and if something fails within that period we put it right. What it does not cover is damage caused by misuse.

Working with the factory, not a middleman

Most of the covers we fit in Spain reach us through the trade: the pool builder who wants one supplier for the whole job, the architect who needs the roller resolved before the shell is poured, the property manager looking after villas whose owners are abroad for most of the year. We build every cover ourselves in Torrijos, near Toledo, and we run a second base in San Pedro de Alcántara, just outside Marbella. Nothing is subcontracted, so the geometry, the finish and the delivery date are ours to control, and yours to promise. Every cover is motorised, runs on 230 V and is built around a 316L stainless steel frame, whether it sits on a five-metre plunge pool or a twenty-metre infinity edge. Covers are built to NF P90-308, the French child-safety standard: closed, the cover stops a child under five getting through and withstands the accidental passage of a 100 kg adult without breaking or pulling free of its anchor points, a concrete answer for a cautious buyer.

Designing the cover in before the pool is poured

On a new pool, the submerged version is the one worth planning for. The roller itself sits below the water line in a recess formed at one end of the pool, so nothing interrupts the line of the coping stone and the client sees only slats and water. Drawn in at structural stage it barely touches your programme; added later it means going back into a finished shell.

Send us the setting-out drawing early and we will come back with the recess dimensions, the depth we need under the slats, the duct route for the 230 V supply and the position of the key switch. Free-form and Roman-end pools are routine work, because we cut and assemble everything in our own workshop, so an irregular plan is a drawing exercise rather than a problem.

We work to your programme, not ours. In practice that means one visit to check the built pool against the drawing, then a single installation day once tiling and coping are finished and the water is in. On phased developments we sequence deliveries plot by plot, so covers are not sitting on site waiting for the landscaping to catch up.

Retrofitting an existing pool without touching the shell

Where the pool already exists, the roller goes above the water on stainless steel supports at one end, with or without a housing. Nothing is chased into the shell, the tiling stays untouched and the pool is back in use the same day. For a villa being prepared for letting or resale, it is the least disruptive upgrade on the list.

There are two slat materials to specify. PVC is the workhorse: opaque, available in several colours and the usual choice where the client wants the cover to disappear against the coping. Polycarbonate comes solar or transparent, and the solar slat lets sunlight through and warms the water underneath, which is what most owners of a second home in Spain actually want from an unheated pool.

Replacing a tired cover from another manufacturer is straightforward in most cases; the supports and the slats change, the pool does not. Every cover we build is motorised at 230 V and there is no hand-cranked version, so a client who has spent years winding an old system by hand is usually the easiest recommendation you will make all season.

Two ways of working with us

There are two routes. In Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha and along the Costa del Sol we install directly from our own depots: you specify us in the project, we fabricate, we fit and we carry the aftercare. The cover stops being your problem on site, and the client still deals with a named manufacturer rather than an anonymous supplier.

Elsewhere in Spain we supply professionals who install or resell under their own name, on trade terms set against volume and the type of relationship. That comes with technical support before and during the fit, drawings and specification help at tender stage, and genuine spare parts shipped anywhere in the country. Ask us for terms and we will come back within a working day.

Either way you are dealing with the factory. Questions about a difficult corner detail, a motor specification or a delivery date go to the people who make the thing, not to a call centre. Recent work includes a fifteen-plot development of sea-front villas in Granada, new-build villas in Cádiz and a private house in Sotogrande, each fitted alongside the main contractor.

Aftercare, spare parts and the years after handover

The part of the job that decides whether a client recommends you is what happens three winters later. When we install, we answer for the cover: motor, control unit, slats, the lot. Our own engineers come out, from Torrijos or from San Pedro de Alcántara, and we keep parts for systems we built years ago rather than declaring them obsolete.

For managing agents this matters more than the specification sheet. A cover left closed over a pool nobody swims in through the winter keeps leaves, grit and evaporation out, cuts chemical use and stops the water going green while the owners are in Surrey or Antwerp. One number to ring, a fixed team, and no need to explain the installation to a stranger each time.

There is also the safety argument, which is the one that reassures families. A closed slatted cover built to NF P90-308 is a physical barrier a child cannot fall through, unlike anything laid loosely over the water. If your client is weighing up a fence, this is the version that does the same job without ruining the view.

Common questions

Do you install directly, or do I buy and fit the cover myself?

Both, depending on where the pool is. In Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha and the Costa del Sol we install ourselves from our depots in Torrijos and San Pedro de Alcántara, and we take on the aftercare. Anywhere else in Spain we supply professionals on trade terms to install or resell under their own name, with technical support and genuine spare parts behind them.

When should the cover be specified on a new-build pool?

As early as the structural drawings. A submerged roller needs a recess at one end of the pool and a duct for the 230 V supply, both of which are simple to form while the shell is being built and tiresome afterwards. Send us the setting-out plan and we will return the dimensions we need, so your groundworks team builds it in first time.

Can you cover an irregular or free-form pool?

Yes. Every cover is made to measure in our own workshop in Torrijos, so curves, Roman ends, corner steps and awkward proportions are handled at drawing stage rather than improvised on site. We build the frame in 316L stainless steel, which is what lets us run long spans over larger pools without the structure suffering in chlorinated or salt-treated water.

Who deals with the client if something goes wrong?

We do, on every cover we install. The call comes to us, our engineer goes out, and the parts come from our own stock, so you are not left explaining a third party's product to an unhappy owner. Where a distributor has installed the cover, they front the client and we sit behind them with technical support and original parts.

Which slat should I put in the specification?

PVC if the client wants the cover to read as a quiet surface matched to the coping stone; polycarbonate if they want light through it. The solar polycarbonate slat warms the water using the sun, which suits owners who are here in spring and autumn rather than midsummer. Send us the pool's orientation and how it is used and we will recommend one.

How does trade pricing work?

There is no minimum order and no published price scale. Terms are set case by case, and the more covers a project or a programme involves, the better the price we can make. Send us the pool and what the job needs, and we will quote it to you.

How long from sign-off to a working cover?

Four to five weeks. That is not a factory lead time with the fitting left open afterwards: it runs from the day you give the go-ahead to the cover being installed and working on the pool. We manufacture in our own workshop in Torrijos, Toledo. If your programme has a fixed date, say so when you ask for the quotation. On a development with several pools we deliver in stages from the fourth week onwards, until they are all installed.

What does the guarantee cover?

Three years on the whole cover, whatever the part. The structure, the motor, the slats and the installation all carry the same three years against manufacturing defects, and if something fails within that period we put it right. What it does not cover is damage caused by misuse.

If I introduce the client, do you then deal with them directly?

No. If the introduction comes from you, the relationship stays with you: we quote to you and we deal with you, and we do not go round you to the owner once the job is running. Your client will see our fitters on site, naturally, but anything commercial comes back through you.

Do you grant territorial exclusivity?

No. There is no territorial exclusivity of any kind, and we would rather say so plainly than have you find out later: we do not divide the country into protected areas, and nobody holds a zone closed to everyone else. Read the other way round, that is the useful part, because no one can block you either. Bring us the projects you have, wherever they are.

Send us the drawings

Tell us about the pool, your programme and where you work, and we will come back within one working day with a specification and trade terms. We are the manufacturer: the covers are built at our own workshop in Torrijos, Toledo, and fitted by our own team from San Pedro de Alcántara.

For pool builders, architects and property managers

Working with the factory, not a middleman

Designing the cover in before the pool is poured

Retrofitting an existing pool without touching the shell

Two ways of working with us

Aftercare, spare parts and the years after handover

Common questions

Do you install directly, or do I buy and fit the cover myself?

When should the cover be specified on a new-build pool?

Can you cover an irregular or free-form pool?

Who deals with the client if something goes wrong?

Which slat should I put in the specification?

How does trade pricing work?

How long from sign-off to a working cover?

What does the guarantee cover?

If I introduce the client, do you then deal with them directly?

Do you grant territorial exclusivity?

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Send us the drawings