Cove — 7m × 3.5m Fibreglass Pool

No. At approximately 32,450 litres the Cove sits below the 35,000 litre threshold, which makes it exempt work under Schedule 1 of the Building Act. There is no consent to apply for and no Producer Statement to chase. It is still manufactured to AS 1838 / NZS AS 1838 and installed to AS 1839 / NZS AS 1839, and pool fencing requirements still apply to the finished pool.

1.21 m at the shallow end, sloping down to 1.74 m at the deep end. Bayside publishes depth as shell height — top of the shell down to the base, as dimensioned on the engineering drawing — so the figure here matches the figure on your specification sheet.

Approximately 32,450 litres. That is a comfortable volume to heat and to run, and it is the reason the Cove needs no building consent: it stays under the 35,000 litre threshold by a real margin, not by a rounding trick.

Yes, and the shape is why. At 7.00 m long with the deep end cleared of seating and steps, you get an uninterrupted 3.5 metre wide swim area. Swim from the base of the entry steps to the far wall and you have covered the whole 7 metres with no handrail, bench or corner seat in the lane. It is not a training lane, but it is real swimming rather than standing up and turning around — and the toe ledge gives you somewhere to rest mid-length.

Comfortably. Wide steps at one end, clear water at the other, 3.5 metres between the walls and no corner seats to clamber over. Turn the heat pump up and the game will outlast the kids.

The deep end shell is 1.74 m, and the floor there is left clear — no bench, no step, nothing for a cannonball to find the wrong way. Because we publish shell height rather than water depth, the water line sits slightly below the top of the shell; ask us and we will put the operating water depth for your install in writing.

That is close to a design brief around here. The steps stay at the shallow end, so the rest of the pool is open water. The drink, however, stays on the deck until you are out.

A standard dig-out is included in your quote: machinery transport, cover sheets if fill is piled on the driveway, protection of gardens and pathways, excavation to the specified dimensions, and truck loading of excavated material where it has to be removed. Beyond that it is your property that decides — how easily a machine reaches the backyard, how far fill has to be moved, whether stormwater or services are in the way, and whether the digger needs craning over a fence. All variations are confirmed with you before they are carried out.

Our shells are manufactured to AS 1838 / NZS AS 1838 — the design and fabrication standard for premoulded fibre-reinforced plastics swimming pools — and installed to AS 1839 / NZS AS 1839. Those standards set the layer build-up, the structural loads the shell has to carry, and the curing and finish requirements before a pool leaves the factory. We build to them whether or not a council is checking.

By hand, in layers, and every layer has a job. From the water outwards: the gelcoat colour surface you swim against; the corrosion barrier, a resin-rich layer that keeps water out of the laminate and resists osmotic blistering; the structural glass laminate, chopped and woven glass carrying the load; core and rib reinforcement stiffening the walls and the top flange; and an outer sealing coat against ground moisture. The swimming surface is finished with ChlorShield.

It varies by where you measure, and deliberately so. Walls, floor, steps and corners each carry a different load, so each is laminated differently: wall laminates generally run around 7–9 mm, while steps and corners run 12–15 mm where the loads concentrate. A longer or deeper shell is laminated heavier than a smaller one. Ask us for the layer specification in writing and we will give you the figures for the Cove.

Every shell is made in our Whakatane factory rather than shipped in from overseas, and it is inspected and signed off at each stage — lay-up, curing, gelcoat and final finish. The build is recorded against the individual shell, so anything we need to look up about your pool later, we can. It is also why you are welcome to visit and watch it being moulded.

Less than a pool this size might suggest. Approximately 32,450 litres is a volume a correctly sized heat pump handles comfortably, which is why the Cove suits households that want a swim in September as well as January. Your installer sizes the heat pump to the pool and the cover you choose.

The minimal shape does a lot of the work: fewer corners, no deep-end seating, and fewer places for debris and algae to collect. Standard water chemistry with a clean filter keeps it right, and Q360 in-floor cleaning can be added if you would rather not vacuum at all.

Because that is where the swimming happens. Most 7 metre pools put a corner seat or a bench in the deep end, and each one of those takes water away from the deepest, most useful part of the pool. The Cove leaves it out: from the bottom of the steps to the far wall you have the full 3.5 metre width, with nothing but the toe ledge in your way.

That is the gap it was drawn for. Toddlers have the wide shallow steps and the 1.21 m shallow end to splash about in; teenagers get 1.74 m at the deep end and a cleared 7 metre swim area for games. One shell covering both, rather than a toddler pool that gets outgrown.

Eventually. Expect negotiation at dinner time. On the bright side, 1.21 m at the shallow end keeps the smallest ones comfortable and 1.74 m at the deep end means the older ones sleep well afterwards.