Every pool tells a story.

A four-week renovation of the estate gym's 25 m lap pool with members training above: new marbelite, the whole surround re-tiled in 800 × 800 tile, and new mosaics.

A new 25 m water-polo pool built from scratch on a working school site with almost no access — finished in December 2025 for the new school year.

A new indoor water-polo pool at the foot of Table Mountain — the single biggest project Curtis Pools has undertaken.

A 25 m indoor pool at the centre of a new aquatics and fitness building in Ladysmith, completed in October 2023.

The old brick-built pool broken out completely and a 25 m gunite pool built in its place — with one piece of the old wall kept by the school.

An enclosed learn-to-swim pool built in six weeks alongside the school's builder, on beach sand that had to be over-excavated and compacted before the shell went in.

A 25 m school pool and a roofed learn-to-swim pool built on dolomite — agricultural drains under the pool first — alongside the main contractor building the new school.

A 13.5 m circular lifestyle pool at Jackal Creek, with in-water loungers and two levels of depth, built around the estate’s builders.

A new 25 m competition pool in Bedfordview, built in three months after the old, undersized pool was taken out.

A learn-to-swim pool under a solar cover for the school's youngest swimmers, built in 2022.

A hilltop rim-flow pool put right: the edge re-levelled, the plumbing reworked and the interior refinished in charcoal so the water mirrors the sky.

An indoor 25 m pool finished inside a concrete shell cast by the main contractor — waterproofed, tiled and plumbed by Curtis Pools while the hall went up around it.

A school pool on dolomite: beams cast under the shell with agricultural drains beneath, built with the contractor on site.

A new 25 m campus pool with an arched pavilion behind it, built to the Trinity profile and finished in November 2019.

The David statue fountain in the centre of the hotel, its floor raised and refinished in mosaics and turquoise marbelite in two and a half weeks.

The Roman-style hotel pool at Emperors Palace, refinished in turquoise marbelite with new tile and repaired coping — in a resort that never closed.

A hotel pool renovated in a fully occupied hotel, with the site hoarded off and the noise kept to guest-friendly hours — finished in turquoise, as it usually is for the group.

A courtyard pool gunited about three floors up in an apartment complex, with a running rock water feature behind it and deck fountains, built over roughly four months on and off alongside the main contractor in 2018.

A straightforward re-marbelite of the school's water polo pool, about a month's work in June–July 2017.

A quick re-marbelite of the VIP fountain in the Emperors Palace turquoise — about a week's work in a live hotel.

Mosaics and turquoise marbelite for the Metcourt hotel pool — two weeks in a live hotel.

The formal reflection lake at Emperors Palace, with its horse-sculpture fountains, refinished in the turquoise that runs through the whole resort.

Curtis Pools was awarded a coveted gold award for this spectacular swimming pool built in Fourways, Johannesburg.

Renovation of the 25 m pool and the adjoining learn-to-swim pool, with the school crest in mosaic.

A month-long renovation of the prep school's 25 m pool, with the school crest laid in mosaic in the centre of the pool.

A small quarter-round pool in blue mosaic and charcoal marbelite, gunited against a round retaining wall the client built first, with a martini seat and jacuzzi jets.

A rim-flow garden pool in Bryanston with a martini seat, a raised ledgestone wall and a stainless-steel blade of water falling into it.

Industrial gunite for Bombela's M2 building: scour-damaged stormwater culverts and channels re-lined with mesh-reinforced gunite over several weeks in early 2015.

A six-week renovation of the school's multi-level pool — a third at 1.2 m, the rest at 2 m for water polo — with mosaics and racing lanes redone.

Curtis Pools have once again walked away with the top prize for the Gauteng region of the N.S.P.I.