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Before escaping to faraway lands for winter sun, is it really possible to enjoy the luxury of a home swimming pool during winter in the UK?

Forget about covering the pool as soon as the summer is over. According to Jack Harding, Director of luxury swimming pool design and build company, Guncast Swimming Pools, as the winter draws in, now is the time to indulge with swimming and relaxation in the comfort of your home.

A luxury spa, with a vitality pool in your own home is the perfect way to ease away the aches of Christmas shopping and party planning, to help combat the winter blues, or to relax at the end of a tough day.

“The latest in luxury home swimming pools is the vitality pool” explains Jack. A vitality pool offers ultimate relaxation utilising water jets. Submerged, stainless steel bubble jet seating provides a massaging effect, which helps to relieve stress and muscle aches by applying a soft pressure to the body.

It may not always be convenient to have permanent, fixed bubble jet seating in a private pool, but Guncast offers a clever way around this. “The submerged seating may not be required at all times” Jack explains. “So we have developed mechanical moving benches that emerge from the pool wall at the touch of button, to be used when required and stored away in the wall when not in use.”

Well designed lighting can also assist in transforming a home swimming pool into a relaxing escape, by creating a soothing ambience and relaxed atmosphere.

It may seem like an easy decision in the winter, but for luxury home owners in the UK, where the weather is so unpredictable all year round, it can be difficult to decide between an indoor or outdoor swimming pool.

However, a swimming pool with a mechanical adjustable wall, which creates a swimming pool that is half indoor and half outdoor, means that swimming outdoors can be an option, even throughout the winter.

The moving wall, which can be lowered to floor level or raised to close off one end of the pool, allows the option of indoor and outdoor swimming all year round.

“Moving walls enable people to enjoy the best of both worlds, without compromising on space by having two separate pools” says Jack. “There is also the additional benefit of being able to enter and exit an outdoor swimming pool, without having to go outside.”

The wall can be used to close off the indoor pool in cold weather if desired, or to ‘extend’ the pool for additional outdoor use.

Much like the moving wall, the installation of a moving floor system (a mechanically powered floor, which is lowered into the ground to reveal a pool underneath, when required) offers versatility, with the flexibility to transform an indoor swimming pool into a dance floor, entertaining or leisure space, play area or a party venue, ideal for the Christmas season.

The moving floor, when secured in place to cover the pool, is sturdy enough to act as a standard floor, allowing the room to be filled to capacity with people. “A moving floor pool creates a space for entertaining or other leisure activities, with the further option to incorporate use of a pool or not, enabling a lot more flexibility when entertaining” continues Jack.

Basement swimming pools with moving floors are becoming increasingly fashionable, particularly in parts of London, and other areas with limited outdoor space, as Jack Harding explains. “Adding a multifunctional room creates additional floor space where there potentially wouldn’t have been any previously, which can help to increase property size and value.” The moving floor system helps to add a unique twist to the basement or indoor swimming pool.

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