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Centaur Spa Journal
Independent Guides to Pool, Spa and Wellness Design
Planning notes for residential, hotel, and resort water. Automatic covers are a core cluster. Each hub leads with a direct answer, then limits, then a matrix you can hand to a consultant. This is not a supplier catalog, and it is not the former Arroyo Grande resort.
How to use this journal
Pick the hub that matches the decision you have to write this week. Covers if the opening and the drive are unsettled. Design if the pool and spa are fighting. Safety if a barrier question is on the permit. Commercial if hours and staffing change the brief. Energy if someone handed you a savings percentage with no assumptions. Then copy the matrix into your one-page brief. Child guides will attach later. Until they exist, do not invent a second URL for the same intent.
01
Pool and Spa Design
Planning a swimming pool and spa as one system: layout, levels, circulation, and the plant room.
02
In-Ground Spa Design
Outdoor built-in spa seating, depth, jets, heating, and insulation for pools and standalone spas.
03
Automatic Pool Covers
Types, tracks, retrofit versus new-build, spa covers, safety, and energy for specifying an automatic pool cover.
04
Pool and Spa Safety
Safety covers, barriers, inspection, and why the local authority decides what counts.
05
Commercial Pool and Spa Design
Hotel, resort, and commercial aquatic planning for developers, consultants, contractors, and operators.
06
Pool and Spa Equipment
Pumps, heating, automation, and plant-room interfaces for residential and commercial pools.
07
Pool Energy Efficiency
Evaporation, heat loss, covers, solar heating, and water conservation with stated assumptions.
08
Pool and Spa Maintenance
Operations, cover care, and troubleshooting for owners and facility teams.
Start with these hubs
Covers, spa design, commercial aquatics, safety, and energy are the first clusters to thicken. Support guides will attach to these parents, not to a single sales page.
- Automatic Pool Covers
Types, tracks, retrofit versus new-build, spa covers, safety, and energy for specifying an automatic pool cover.
- In-Ground Spa Design
Outdoor built-in spa seating, depth, jets, heating, and insulation for pools and standalone spas.
- Commercial Pool and Spa Design
Hotel, resort, and commercial aquatic planning for developers, consultants, contractors, and operators.
- Pool and Spa Safety
Safety covers, barriers, inspection, and why the local authority decides what counts.
- Pool Energy Efficiency
Evaporation, heat loss, covers, solar heating, and water conservation with stated assumptions.
Automatic pool covers
The first support pages will cover hydraulic systems, electric versus hydraulic, undertrack versus top-track, retrofit, irregular shapes, safety standards, resort cover planning, and energy savings. They attach to this hub, not to a supplier homepage.
Automatic Pool CoversSpa and wellness design
In-ground outdoor spas, seating, jets, and insulation. Not salon interiors. Pool-and-spa combination layout stays on the design hub.
In-Ground Spa DesignCommercial and resort aquatics
Hotel and resort planning for developers, landscape architects, MEP, and facility managers. Specification and coordination, not construction warranties.
Commercial Pool and Spa DesignSafety and standards
Barrier versus cover, inspection, and jurisdiction. Standard numbers are checked against PHTA, ASTM, ICC, and the local official. These pages are not legal advice.
Pool and Spa SafetyEnergy and water
Evaporation, heat loss, covers, and solar heating. Savings claims need stated assumptions. This cluster continues the older green-spa story of the domain without pretending the resort still operates here.
Pool Energy EfficiencyTools and downloadable resources
A specification checklist, measurement sheet, commercial RFQ template, equipment-room checklist, and energy calculator are planned. They will ship with field notes and a worked example, not as a lone download button.
How we publish
Pages lead with a direct answer, then limits, then a matrix. Standards and numbers are checked before they stay up. We do not invent project counts or lab results.