COVID-19 is driving a boom in demand for alternative swimming pools as people reinvest in their homes

The COVID-19 virus has caused a boom in swimming pools, and for some of the more outlandish builders the better.

For decades, pool styles were fairly standardized, but now everything from shipping containers to stock tanks is being converted for use in backyard swimming.

The swimming pool industry has experienced unprecedented growth over the past two years due to COVID-19.

“People are reinvesting in their home; they are creating an oasis in their own backyard,” said Spiros Dasakis, chief executive of the Australian Pool and Spa Association.

Dassakis says the quirky little pool trend has taken off in recent years.

“We now have specialist companies that build products for smaller backyards, or larger backyards that only want to use a swimming pool for a small portion of them,” he said.

“We’re seeing people return to pools that might not have been able to afford a large pool with access to this array of attractive options.”

Shipping container aggregations are on the rise

Mr Dassakis said the trend of container shipping came about five years ago in Australia.

“Since around 2016, they [shipping container pools] They have advanced to the point that they have become highly developed.”

Jonavan Roux owns a shipping container assembly business in Queensland which he started unintentionally when he was helping a friend.

“I have an architectural background. I studied it here in Australia and my father worked in the swimming pool industry for over 30 years in South Africa,” he said.

“I was helping a friend design an extension to their house using shipping containers… We had a swimming pool written in the plans and I said, ‘Why don’t we stick with it and create a shipping container pool.'”

Mr. Rowe posted the shipping container collection on social media which attracted huge interest from consumers.

He decided to expand the project into a commercial one and has seen the demand grow exponentially since the pandemic began.

“I can really tell the company took advantage of that [COVID-19],” He said.

Inventory tank sales boom

David Mortimer creates troughs out of stock tanks that are typically used for livestock.

He says COVID-19 has provided a welcome boost to his Sydney business.

“The level of inquiries we received was exciting… It’s a good problem, but now we have to build twice as many pools,” he said.