Windows for pool houses
Air over a pool is warm, wet and faintly chemical, and that combination goes after the two parts of a window that are easiest to under-specify: the hardware and the finish. Chlorine carried in water vapour settles on hinges and locking gear and works away at them quietly for months, and where the villa is near the shore the salt in the air joins in. The glass has a separate problem: on humid mornings the outside air meets panes cooled by the air conditioning, and moisture beads on the outer face. So the specification here is about materials and moving air, not about heat.
- stainless gear hardware
- coastal-grade powder coating
- drained sill frame
What pool air attacks first
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Stainless
Hinges and gear
Chlorine finds ordinary steel
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Coastal-grade
Powder coating
Deeper pre-treatment before colour
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Safety-glazed
Glass
Laminated or toughened by the water
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Drained sill
Frame
Splash and washdown run away
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Cross-ventilation
Layout
Damp air has to leave somewhere
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Profile Options
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Profile finish and coating options
Powder coating in any shade of the RAL palette; the colour is confirmed against a physical sample at the survey.
Anodising builds an oxide layer on the profile itself, so the colour belongs to the metal rather than to a film on top of it and cannot peel.
Wood-grain and stone-effect finishes are transferred onto the powder coating. The profile keeps the strength of aluminium and never needs repainting.
Available colours (200+ RAL shades)
- White
- Anthracite
- Brown
- Black
- Grey-anthracite
- Grey
Anodised finishes
- Natural silver
- Champagne
- Light bronze
- Medium bronze
- Dark bronze
- Black anodised
Wood-grain and special effects
- Golden oak
- Walnut
- Dark oak
- Concrete
- Basalt
- Wenge
How a poolside opening is specified
- Distance from the water measured The splash zone is specified apart
- Coastal exposure noted at the survey Salt and chlorine together are worse
- Hardware upgraded to stainless throughout Including the screws nobody sees
- Safety glazing where somebody could fall Full-height panes above all
- Thresholds kept low and drained Wet feet cross them all day
- Openings placed for cross-ventilation An extract alone will not dry a room
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The honest downside
Before you glaze in the pool house
Glazing a room beside the pool closes it around warm, wet, faintly chemical air. Once the doors are shut that air has to be moved out by openings or by machines, and a pool house left closed for days tends to smell of it.
Upkeep does not stop at the hardware either. Splash and irrigation leave mineral marks on the low panes, chlorinated water dries on the frames, and near the coast both want a fresh-water rinse far more often than the windows of the house.
If the space is used open for most of the day, a shaded, open-sided gazebo by the water gives the same shelter with no glass to keep clear and no room to dry out. A glazed pool house stays the right answer where it has to be cooled, locked and used as a room all year.
Consider instead
Gazebos
Frequently asked questions
It goes for the steel parts long before it touches the aluminium. The frame itself is coated and holds up well; what suffers is the hardware inside it — hinges, locking cams, the small screws — because chlorine leaves the water as vapour, settles on metal along with the humidity, and corrodes it slowly out of sight. By the time a handle feels stiff, it has usually been happening for months. Stainless gear and a properly pre-treated coating cost a little more once and hold up far longer.
Fogging on the pool side of the glass is not a fault in the window. On a humid morning the outdoor air meets a pane cooled by the air conditioning, its moisture condenses on the outer face, and it clears as the sun warms the glass. A well-insulated double-glazed unit keeps the outer pane closer to the outdoor temperature, which makes it rarer, though on the most humid mornings it can still appear. Inside the room, the cure for damp is moving the air — openings on two sides for cross-ventilation and an extract that genuinely runs. If the fogging is between the panes rather than on a surface, that is a failed unit and a different conversation.
Then the window is really a large sliding or folding opening, and the priorities move to the track and the threshold. A track set into a terrace collects leaves, sand and pool water, so it wants drainage and a brush seal rather than a deep channel that holds silt, and the threshold wants to be low enough to cross barefoot while still shedding water outward. Stainless rollers again, because they spend their whole life in wet air.
Treat it as required rather than optional. People move quickly and barefoot around water, full-height panes read as openings, and every surface nearby is hard. Toughened glass breaks into blunt pieces instead of shards; laminated glass holds the pane together and keeps it in the frame. We normally put laminated into anything full-height near the water and toughened where a smaller pane is simply at risk of an impact.
Related pages
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- Arched windows
- Bay windows
- Casement windows
- Corner windows
- Custom shapes
- Double-panel windows
- Energy efficient windows
- Fire-rated windows
- Fixed windows
- Floor-to-ceiling windows
- Folding windows
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