Every pool tells a story.

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.

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

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 pool carried on a freestanding concrete wall above open veld, so the water's edge meets the horizon: excavated and gunited in 2013 and finished with a timber deck. NSPI Gold in 2014 for unusual structural or engineering skills.

Gunite pool shells eight to nine floors up overlooking the Houghton golf course, built for another contractor between July and November 2012, with the materials spread across the deck to keep the load down and compressed air piped up from the ground.

A gunite pool at Blair Atholl lined entirely in natural rock, with railway-sleeper edges, a side water feature and a deep end that drops to about 2.5 m.