01/06/2026
Some history 🗞️
We've built vinyl-lined pools across SA since 1997, but the method goes back further than that.
In 1968 a local builder set out to solve a problem every Adelaide homeowner knows. Our reactive clay can crack concrete. Floors, slabs even concrete pools - sometimes within a few years. The fix was a pool that flexes with the ground instead of fighting it. A steel modular wall, a vinyl liner and a compacted sand bed.
It worked and in 1974 it became the first swimming pool in Australia to win a Good Design Label, presented by Premier Don Dunstan, and the only pool system ever granted Australian Letters Patent.
A pool we built at Meadows Primary School in 1972 was still solid when we returned to re-line it 43 years later. New liner, same steel.
The materials have moved on but the engineering hasn't.
▸ Swipe through for the original brochures, the 1974 Good Design award, and the test where a liner held a four-wheel drive in the air.
