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The pool, in real backyards

A precast plunge pool is easier to judge in a yard than in a spec sheet. These are installed examples of the range: the same shell, in different surrounds, with different tiled finishes.

What you are looking at

Product photography These photographs show the precast plunge pool range itself. They are supplied product images, not a record of jobs Nook Plunge completed, so none of them is labelled with a suburb, a date or a customer.

Nook Plunge's own completed-project photography is still to be supplied. When it lands it will be published here with the model, the finish and the location named on each one.

The range in situ

Courtyards, decks, sloping blocks and narrow side yards. The shell is the constant; the coping, paving, fencing and planting around it are what make each one look different.

  • A small rectangular plunge pool set into travertine paving beside a house, ringed by frameless glass fencing, with a white slat fence and tropical planting behind it.
  • A plunge pool at dusk beside a two storey home, with lit stone steps running down to pale paving and frameless glass fencing around the water.
  • A square plunge pool in an exposed aggregate courtyard between two white pergolas, cane chairs to one side and a row of banana palms along a dark boundary fence, with hills in the distance.
  • A rectangular plunge pool with pale stone coping directly in front of a covered verandah, with lawn and open paddock fencing beyond.
  • A plunge pool set into blond timber decking, with a rendered white wall along one side and bamboo screening against the back fence.
  • A plunge pool with a wide exposed aggregate surround, white pergola posts either side and glass fencing, with lawn running up to the paving in the foreground.
  • Overhead view of a rectangular plunge pool with a full width bench seat along one end, stone coping all round and a dry stone retaining wall alongside.
  • A green toned plunge pool between two white pergolas, with sun lounges on the paving and a stone clad garden wall behind.
  • A dark tiled plunge pool reflecting a brick home with a covered alfresco area, glass fencing set into the stone coping at the water edge.
  • A plunge pool alongside a stone retaining wall, with sun lounges on the paving above it and glass fencing around three sides.
  • A rectangular plunge pool on grey stone paving beneath a dark timber pergola, with glass fencing and young trees along the boundary.
  • A plunge pool seen from a covered patio laid with patterned floor tiles, white cane lounge chairs in the foreground and lawn beside the water.
  • A plunge pool running along a rendered block wall, with artificial lawn up to the stone coping and a sliding door reflecting the water.
  • A deep blue tiled plunge pool set between grey composite decking and stone coping, with lawn and a glazed living area beyond the glass fence.
  • A blue tiled plunge pool with a broad shallow bench along one end, timber decking and sun lounges running down the long side.
  • Looking down the length of a deep blue mosaic tiled plunge pool, with composite decking and a sun lounge on one side and lawn on the other.
  • A compact plunge pool set flush into a large timber deck, with glass fencing around the water and cacti in a gravel garden bed alongside.
  • A plunge pool viewed from inside a living room through a wide opening, with a green plant wall and garden bed beyond the far edge of the water.
  • A plunge pool beside a contemporary home at dusk, with lit stone steps and paving leading down to the frameless glass fence.
  • A plunge pool with a wide bench seat along one end and stone coping set into timber decking, against a rendered grey wall.

How it goes in

The install, in four stages

The reason a precast pool is quicker on site is that most of the building already happened somewhere else. This is the order it runs in.

  1. The shell is finished before it leaves

    The pool is cast in concrete off site and cured under controlled conditions. Tiling, plumbing penetrations and the finish are all done before it goes anywhere. What leaves the yard on the truck is a complete pool, not a kit.

    A mobile crane lifting a finished precast concrete pool shell across a yard towards a flatbed trailer marked as an oversize load.

  2. It arrives and the crane takes over

    The truck delivers to the kerb and a crane does the rest. Depending on the site that can mean lifting the shell clear over the roof of the house, which is why access, overhead lines and crane standing room get assessed long before the delivery date.

    Aerial view of a mobile crane lifting a precast concrete pool shell high over the roofs of houses towards a backyard, with the street below closed off by traffic barriers.

  3. The shell is set into the excavation

    The hole and base are prepared ahead of the delivery so the shell can be lowered straight in and set to level. This is the part people picture as months of work on a poured pool. Here it is measured in hours.

    A precast concrete pool shell with a dark tiled interior hanging on chains from a mobile crane, being lowered into a prepared excavation beside a house.

  4. Backfilled, connected and filled

    Once the shell is set and levelled it is backfilled, the plumbing and equipment are connected, and the pool is commissioned and filled. Paving, decking and fencing follow afterwards, to whatever you have planned for the surrounds.

    Close view of the finished water surface of a plunge pool over a blue green mosaic tiled interior, with pale stone coping at the edge.
The view from inside a living room through a large window: the install crew and a truck outside, with the pool shell already set into the ground in the yard.

What it looks like from inside

One delivery day, not a building site

The disruptive part of a precast install is the excavation and the lift. There is no months-long run of formwork, steel fixing and curing in the middle of your yard, because all of that happened before the truck arrived.

Read the common questions
Before you choose

Pick the size

Six models across the range. The number in the name is the pool's length in metres.

See one in person

A tiled interior reads differently in daylight than it does on a screen.

Check your access

Crane room, overhead lines and ground conditions decide what is possible on your block.

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