EST. 1968. BELROSE, NSW
A family practice. Three generations. One material.
Wright Pools has been building concrete pools across Sydney since 1968. Same family. Same standard. A small number of projects each season.
Our story
Why we only build in concrete.
Wright Pools opened on the Northern Beaches in 1968 with one site, one client, and a single conviction. A pool poured in steel-reinforced concrete is the only pool worth building. That conviction has not moved since.
What has moved is the work. Belrose to Bellevue Hill, Mosman to Whale Beach. Taronga Zoo and the rooftops of the city. Hundreds of residential pools, plunge pools and lap pools. Apartment and strata pools. Hotel pools, public-venue pools, hydrotherapy and swim-school facilities. Water features for Taronga's lemur enclosure. Glass-fronted residential pools sitting above the coastline at Queenscliff.
The business is still family owned. Sons and grandsons of the founder run the projects. Clients who built with us in the 1980s now refer their children. The architects we work with most have worked with us longest.
How we work
Care, and forethought.
Every Wright project moves on the same two words. Care, and forethought. Care in the build, in the materials, in the people who turn up on site. Forethought in the engineering and the drawings, so the surprises that derail a pool build are designed out before the first cut.
It is not a complicated philosophy. It is just the discipline of doing the unglamorous parts of a concrete build properly. Soil test before the design. Engineer the shell to the block, not to a template. Pour reinforcement that will outlast the house. Use stone and tile from people we know and trust. Stay on site until the client signs off and the cover comes on.
Most of our work comes back. Returning clients, returning architects, returning builders. We take a small number of projects each season so the work stays the work, and so the same Wright supervisor can carry the project from first measurement to handover.
Commercial since the 1960s
Every surface fully tiled to commercial standard. The work shows the side of Wright Pools that has run on commercial sites since the 1960s.
Rugby House. Indoor aquatic facility, built with AW Edwards.Milestones
Sydney pools since 1968.
First Wright Pools site on the Northern Beaches. Reinforced concrete from day one.
The work spreads to the North Shore and the Eastern Suburbs. Concrete pools on harder, steeper, rockier blocks.
A licensed-club pool on the North Shore. The start of more than four decades of commercial pool building.
Swim-school and hydrotherapy pools built to commercial code. Engineering for pools that run every day of the year.
The founder's sons take over day-to-day. Site supervision becomes the family signature.
A landmark commission. Water features designed for the zoo's lemur habitat. Specified to commercial code, finished to residential standard.
Glass-fronted residential pools sitting above the coastline at Queenscliff. Engineering and finish at the edge of what concrete allows.
Engineered concrete shells on structural decks across the CBD. Inner-city pool building, done properly.
The family is still on the tools. NSW Lic. 246552C. Three generations of the same trade.
The range
One team, three kinds of pool.
We build the same way the architects we work with design. With a single material, taken seriously.
Wright Pools. Building since 1968.