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

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.

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

Four months of guniting: the structural shell of a 180 m lazy river and the waterpark’s central pools, sprayed in 2011. The finishing was by another contractor.

The gunite shell for the hotel's courtyard pool, built three floors up above the shops for the main contractor in 2009: gunite machines on the deck, the compressor at ground level with the air piped up, and a shell that had to be watertight from the first fill.