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General references • Caution, please retain! General references • Caution, please retain!
Dear customer,
We require your assistance in the course of our continuous
product improvement. Therefore we request that you keep this
sheet and indicating the control number in case of discussions
with our internal service. Place this sheet carefully with the bill
for your product.
You have decided on a pool made from wood. The structure of
the wood, with its knots, markings and resin gall, which arise
during the growth of the tree, lend your swimming pool its natural
charm.
Here are summarized some tips on the assembly and preservation of
the product.
Before the assembly
You have acquired a product for which we use mainly fir wood from the
forests of Northern Europe. Because spruce grows more slowly there,
and therefore develops fine annual rings, it is stronger.
Wood reacts to environmental influences. Thus swelling and shrinkage
occur in the wood according to the weather. Through this, dimensionally-
deviating cracks, knots and so forth, can occur. This is unavoidable.
The wood may be not be exposed to direct sunlight or permanent
moisture before and during the installation.
If waterlogging occurs or if e.g. through plants, walls and so forth,
sufficient ventilation of this product is not ensured, fungal, blue stain
and mold attacks can result. Blue stain represents a visual impairment
only in this case.
If natural wood is left exposed to sunlight, this results in discoloration
and this can extend to gray-shading.
Preparation of the placement area and/or
the foundation
Important: A carefully prepared underlay substrate is prerequisite for
an accurate fit on assembly of the components. If faults occur here,
difficulties will be encounterd during the assembly, which can impair
the stability and optics of the pool.
Preparation of the underlay:
The placement area must be located in the area of mature ground.
Piled ground must be compacted so that the pool cannot sink. In no
case must the pool walls be back-filled with soil or even employed for
the support of an inclination. In case of sloping ground or layer water,
drainage is to be provided. Set up the placement area so that the pool
cannot be undermined by rainwater. You can also pour a concrete
slab.
For further questions regarding the foundation preparation, please
refer to a trusted specialist.
The underlay substrate should be free of irregularities, stones and so
forth, i.e. anything that can damage the attached film.
Some pools are supported with steel profile sections, which run
longitudinally under the pool. For this, you must provide recesses in
the underlay substrate.
Selection of the placement area
For plants above a growth height of 10 cm, a minimum distance of 2
m must be kept around the pool. This provides for sufficient ventilation
of the walls.
Furthermore, you should avoid the following:
• Overhanging tree branches.
• Overhead lines and clothes lines.
• Pipes and lines laid underground (telephone, gas, power etc.)
• Hilly and rough terrain.
• Areas with bad drainage.
• Grass, stones and roots. Grass will rot under the pool film. Stones
and roots will damage the pool film.
• Areas, which were treated only recently with oil-based herbicides,
chemicals or fertilizers.
Consider also providing sufficient space for later extensions e.g. a pool
terrace. You can find a sketch about the alignment of the underlay in
the product descriptions.
Treatment of the wood
All building components, i.e. planks, strips, laths etc. including the
boiler-pressure-impregnated components, must always be treated
on both sides. The parts of the wood which are no longer accessible
later after assembly must be treated before the assembly has been
completed.
Before the assembly of the product, treat with blue-stain blocking
primer, then paint your pool with two coats of protective paintwork
using an open-pore wood preservation varnish. At the latest, every two
years, you should repeat the application of a protective paint coat.
In case of coloured and boiler-pressure-impregnated pools, the
naturally-left wood locations (sawcuts) and parts must be post-treated
only.
If these maintenance measures have not been properly carried
out, deformation / distortion can result. This is not a valid reason
for complaint.
The assembly
Please first read through the building instructions completely. The
drawings in these building instructions are not strictly accurate and
are used merely for the sake of illustration. Changes in optical and
technical type are possible.
The wood must not be exposed to direct sunlight or permanent
moisture before and during the assembly. Wood is sometimes a quite
self-willed material and, for this reason, every screwed connection in
the first component part should first be pre-bored! Otherwise the wood
can easily tear and split along its length!
Part 2
The PVC internal sleeve of your pool is manufactured from thermoplastic
material. You should ensure that your pool is assembled at an outside
temperature approx. + 15° to + 25°C. Do not attach the PVC inner
sleeve under full direct solar radiation; wait until the evening before
the attachent.
Do you have an electrical power connection nearby?
As indicated in the technology package (on the individual pages
concerning the pools), the pumps must run for a pre-determined
number of hours per day. For example, the Pool Model 3 should
be operated for the recommended 7 hours a day. By means of its
230/12 V transformer, however, it is particularly power-saving and now
corresponds to the pending VDE Standard for pumps in swimming
pool operation. The technology box is located directly at the pool. The
transformer, however, must be located at a separation distance of 3.50
m from the pool. It must be protected against splashed water by means
of a covering (dimensions of the transformer: Length 8 cm: Height 16
cm: Width 7 cm). The skimmer is placed on the side turned away from
the wind.
Part 1
Pre-drilled