Community pools on bungalow complexes, mini pools in townhouse patios and villas with gardens in Ciudad Quesada and Campoamor. We maintain and repair pools from Guardamar to Pilar de la Horadada, for communities of owners and for owners who spend part of the year in northern Europe.
The south of the province was built on flat land, one development after another. Orihuela Costa is a string of urbanisations along the N-332: Punta Prima, Playa Flamenca, La Zenia, Cabo Roig and Dehesa de Campoamor by the sea, and Villamartín, Los Dolses or Lomas de Cabo Roig further inland, among the golf courses. Bungalows, quads and townhouses are everywhere, grouped into complexes with a community pool in the middle; only in Cabo Roig and Campoamor do villas on large plots with their own pool take over.
Torrevieja adds its salt lagoons to the picture. In La Mata, Los Balcones, Aguas Nuevas or El Chaparral, the salty, humid air rusts ladders, lights and fixings sooner than you would expect. To the south, Pilar de la Horadada spreads its homes between Torre de la Horadada and Mil Palmeras; to the north, Guardamar del Segura has urbanisations such as El Raso and a pine forest on the dunes that blows sand into the pools whenever the levante wind picks up. Inland, Rojales and Ciudad Quesada offer villas with gardens, golf and hotter summers than on the seafront.
Many owners are British, Scandinavian, Belgian or Dutch, and split their time between here and home. That is why two kinds of work dominate: maintenance plans for private pools that sit empty for weeks on end, and contracts with communities and property administrators for community pools from the eighties and nineties, which need repainting every season, leak repairs and upgrades to meet health regulations. On top of that come the droughts in the Segura basin: a pool that loses water shows up on the bill and in the community.
We head south from the Pla de la Vallonga and divide the week by urbanisation, so your pool is always visited on the same day. We have worked on over 500 pools in the province and carry public liability insurance, which any property administrator will ask to see before signing.
Bungalow complexes in La Zenia, Playa Flamenca or Villamartín, and apartment buildings in Torrevieja and Guardamar. We sign annual contracts with the community or its administrator: season opening, water tests and logbook, repairs and quotes that can go before the owners' meeting with no surprises.
See the serviceFor the bungalow or villa that stays shut while you are in England, Sweden or Belgium. With a weekly or fortnightly pool service we clean, test the water, check the equipment and send you photos. Before you come back we get everything ready and, if there has been a storm, we make sure no mud or sand has got in.
See the serviceQuads and townhouses in Torrevieja, Orihuela Costa or Pilar de la Horadada have small gardens, yet there is still room for a pool. We build small concrete pools, plunge pools for cooling off in August and raised pools in patios, with compact filtration units, and coordinate with your architect if the pool has to rest on walls or terraces.
See the serviceThe Vega Baja heat speeds up algae growth, and the limescale in mains water marks the edges. We convert private and community pools to salt water systems with pH and redox control, so the chlorine is produced automatically and the water holds up well through the weeks when nobody so much as looks at the pool.
See the serviceMany community pools from the eighties and nineties in Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa are painted concrete. Before each season opening we sand or blast the shell, repair cracks and apply epoxy or chlorinated rubber paint, including lane or depth markings when the community wants them.
See the serviceWith droughts in the Segura basin, topping up the pool every week is not an option. We track down the leak with a bucket test, dye, a geophone or pipe pressure testing, and repair it in skimmers, lights, return jets or pipe runs buried under the artificial grass and terraces of the bungalows.
See the serviceExample projects with illustrative images.
ExampleAnnual contract with the community: season opening with a deep clean and a check of the filtration system, tests recorded in the logbook, automatic chlorine and pH control, close monitoring of the water in the busiest months and detailed quotes for every repair, ready to present at the owners' meeting.
Community pools
ExampleA small gunite pool fitted into a back patio with no access for large machinery: dug out with a mini digger, a compact filtration unit in an equipment cabinet against the party wall, an underwater bench for sitting in the water and a narrow edge in pale reconstituted stone that leaves room for a table and two sun loungers.
Small pools and plunge pools
ExampleSalt chlorinator with automatic pH and redox control installed in the existing plant room, salt level adjusted in the pool, a check of the pump and metal fittings, and filtration scheduled for summers in the inland Vega Baja, when the water warms up and limescale builds up sooner.
Salt chlorination and UVWe set out from our base: Calle de la Ferreria, 24, Pol. Ind. Pla de la Vallonga, 03006 Alicante.
Fixed written quote and a reply within 24 hours in season. Call us or message us on WhatsApp.
Frequently asked questions
Pool maintenance in Orihuela Costa, Torrevieja, Pilar de la Horadada, Guardamar and Rojales: community pools, townhouse mini pools, year-round care. Call us.
Yes, under an annual contract signed with the community or the property administrator. It covers the season opening, the water tests recorded in the logbook that health regulations require for community pools, repairs and written quotes for the owners' meeting. If the pool needs bringing up to standard, we explain what is missing and the best order in which to tackle it.
After every maintenance visit you receive photos of the water, the pool floor and the filtration system, with a note if we have spotted anything unusual. English, Spanish and German spoken, so you can write to us in whichever language suits you best. If a piece of equipment breaks down or a leak appears, we send you the diagnosis and touch nothing without your go-ahead.
Usually, yes: in small patios we build mini concrete pools, plunge pools or raised pools, with compact filtration units that take up very little space. We look at access, the party walls and where the house pipes run. If the pool is going on a terrace or next to a community wall, we coordinate with your architect and help you with the paperwork.
The first thing is not to lose water: a well-kept pool is not emptied every year, you only top up what evaporates. We check for leaks, suggest a cover or thermal blanket to slow evaporation and keep the water healthy with the right filtration and chemicals. That way, if the town hall limits pool filling, your pool does not have to wait for the restriction to be lifted.
