Pool renovation and waterproofing in Calpe

Calpe sits right on the water, and that is exactly what makes life hard for a swimming pool here. The salt air around the Peñón de Ifach gets into everything, and up on the slopes of Maryvilla and La Empedrola a lot of pools sit on a terrace or an embankment, where the structure is constantly on the move as temperatures swing between day and night.

You see the result in tiles coming loose, grout crumbling away and pools that slowly lose water without you ever quite working out where. The usual answer is fresh grout or a tile put back, and a season later it starts all over again.

Polyurea deals with the cause: one seamless, flexible layer over the whole shell, with no joints and no weak points. The coating moves with the structure instead of cracking, and it stands up to chlorine and salt water.

The flat roofs and azoteas (the open rooftop terraces you see all over Spain) of Calpe take full sun the whole year round, and it is precisely that expansion and contraction that cracks traditional waterproofing. On apartment blocks you can add the wear of shared roof terraces on top of that.

A polyurea layer forms a single closed skin across the roof or terrace, including around drains, upstands and corners, which is where leaks usually start. It takes foot traffic as soon as it has cured, which makes work on a communal terrace far less disruptive.

We come out to look at the situation on site and assess the substrate, because the end result depends entirely on it. After that you get a tailored quotation with a clear description of the system we will be applying.

We work in Dutch, Spanish, English and German, which helps in a town as international as Calpe. And if you are a community of owners that wants to discuss things internally first, we are happy to talk it through at your own pace.