What to consider when creating a swimming pool plant room design

If you’re trying to improve the facilities in your establishment with a substantial swimming pool or are keen to add a little luxury to your home with an indulgent spa, it’s essential that you don’t forget about the crucial plant room.

Below, the qualified and experienced engineers at Chemsol explain how to confidently design a pool plant room that allows for both effective operation and efficient maintenance of your pool or spa.

What goes into a plant room?

Depending on the size and extent of your swimming pools or spa facilities, the plant room will house a variety of mechanical, filtration, and sanitation equipment. Put simply, all the technology and equipment required to operate and maintain your pool or spa should be included in the plant room.

From pumps, pipework, and vales to control boxes, heaters, and dehumidifying technology, plant rooms can also be used to house vital heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technology and equipment for a building.

How to design a pool plant room

While HVAC plant room design also requires careful consideration and planning, there are many areas to consider when it comes to creating a successful swimming pool plant room design.

Some of the most important aspects of plant room design include the size, location, and insulation of the room as this will heavily influence its accessibility, ease of use, and efficacy. The thoughtful distribution and installation of all the necessary equipment and technology is just as important for these same reasons.

This plant room design stage is therefore crucial if you want to ensure effective scheduled maintenance can be carried out when necessary. We explore some of the most significant design elements of a pool plant room in more detail below.

Location

Location, in particular, is one of the most crucial elements to consider during the design stage. Typically, you should try to install the plant room as close as possible to the pool or spa as this will support the functionality and sizing of pipes, equipment, and services co-ordination.

In general, it’s also recommended that the plant room is located with the base at a minimum level with surface of the water. However, the best location for the plant room will also naturally vary depending on the pool shape, dimensions, and depth.

Size

It’s often easy to forget about leaving space for a plant room when you’re trying to maximise the area of your pool or spa. However, ensuring you have adequate space available for an appropriate pool plant room will help you to avoid a wide range of accessibility and ease of use issues further down the line. The dimensions of the pool will typically determine the size of the plant room.

Insulation

It’s no secret that the heating, dehumidification, and filtering equipment required to run and maintain your pool or spa will make some degree of noise. Unfortunately, however, plant room insulation can be easily overlooked if you don’t put the necessary time and effort into your swimming pool plant room design.

If you want to prevent this noise from affecting either your own enjoyment or the enjoyment of your customers, it’s crucial that your residential or commercial plant room design includes some extra layers of sound insulation that can help to dampen any machine-generated noise.

Fortunately, if you choose to seek professional plant room design support from Chemsol, you needn’t worry about poor planning, access issues, or ineffective designs thanks to our years of invaluable experience designing pool plant rooms.

We work alongside architects, engineers, and our clients to from the early stages of all our plant room projects to ensure we create an incredibly efficient and aesthetically pleasing space.

Contact the expert plant room designers at Chemsol

For professional support with designing, installing, or maintaining your pool plant room, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the team of qualified engineers here at Chemsol. We have years of invaluable experience providing a variety of swimming pool services for customers across the UK.

Alongside offering swimming pool plant room design for residential properties, we also provide commercial plant room design for a wide range of projects both big and small. Whether you want to improve the efficiency of your pool plant room by reducing the frequency of manual maintenance or you require a more tailored design solution, we can help.

From picking the perfect location for the pool plant room to determining the right size, equipment, distribution, and installation method for your specific project, our expert design team can handle all these elements with ease.

To find out more about the variety of plant room design options available for your swimming pool or spa, please feel free to give our knowledgeable team a call today on 01492 582 888.

We also welcome email enquiries submitted to info@chemsol.co.uk as well as queries sent in using our handy online contact form.