Where the pools are in 6th of October City
6th of October City was founded in 1979, and more than fifty residential and mixed use projects now sit inside it, alongside numbered districts of apartment buildings and private villas. Its pools are in villa gardens, in shared compound pools, in sports club grounds and in hotels, and each of those four gets planned in its own way. The whole city is inside the area we cover from our Nasr City office.
Villa pools in Dreamland and the Palm Hills compounds
Dreamland is a gated community with its own golf course, off El Wahat Road, and Palm Hills Developments has built several villa compounds in the city. Pools in these gardens range from a first pool on a new plot to one that has had twenty summers and several different handymen. On an existing villa pool, the first visit covers the water, the shell, the tiling and the plant room together, and you get one written list of what each part needs. On a new pool, the terrace level, the plant room position and the access route for machines are settled before anything is drawn.
Compound pools that are due for new waterproofing
Many compound pools in 6th of October are now old enough to need new waterproofing and a full plant room upgrade at the same time. Doing both in one closure costs the compound one drained pool instead of two. Compound management gets one named contact, a programme with every stage dated, and an itemised quote a committee can read without an engineer in the room. The closure goes between seasons, so the pool is back in use for the summer.
Club and competition pools
The city has a long list of sports clubs, and their pools run most of the day for most of the year. A competition or training pool needs regulation geometry first: lane lengths and widths held to tolerance, lane markings set out on the floor and walls, and depths where the rules put them. The hydraulics are sized for continuous use, which means turnover, filter area, pump duty and dosing all worked out for the number of swimmers rather than the volume of water. Readings are logged on every visit for your inspection file. Our own structural and hydraulic engineers do the drawings and stay on the job through commissioning.
Hotel pools and pools on the Wahat Road side
Hotels sit near the Dreamland golf course on El Wahat Road, and their pools carry guests every day of the season. If you run one, a closed pool means complaints, and somebody in management answers for anything that goes wrong in the water. A fault gets traced to its cause and fixed once. Work that would shut the pool goes into your quietest weeks. Hotels and clubs can contract us directly, on commercial terms.
The work these pools need
Pools in 6th of October usually need one of four things.
The level keeps dropping. We test with the pool full and the lines one by one, so a loss in the pipework is told apart from a loss through the shell before anything is broken open. Then comes finding the leak and re-waterproofing the shell with Sika or BASF Master Builders systems, tested before a single tile covers it.
A pump keeps failing, a filter never clears the water, or a fitting leaks in the plant room. We look for the cause before we quote, then carry out pump, pipework and fitting repairs with Hayward, Pentair or AstralPool equipment and Schneider Electric automation. Spares for all of them are sold in Cairo.
The shell, the waterproofing, the tiling and the plant room are all worn out together, which is common on compound pools of this age. That calls for renovating the whole pool between seasons, with one drain-down, one dated programme and one contractor answering for every part.
A club, a compound or a developer wants a new pool sized for heavy daily use. That is club and compound pool construction, from the regulation geometry to the balance tank and the plant room, drawn and built by the same engineers.
Why people in 6th of October City choose us
- One team from the survey to the handover, and the same people on every visit.
- Closures planned between seasons, with each stage dated on the quote.
- Faults reported in writing before they turn into a bill, and nothing charged that was not done.
- Structural, hydraulic and MEP engineers on our own staff, so the shell, the pipes and the panel are one company's responsibility.
- Site teams on our own payroll, not labour hired for the week.
- Building and looking after pools in Egypt since 2001, twenty five years under the same name.
- Palm Hills Developments, which builds in 6th of October City, is on our list of developer partners.
- A written warranty on every pool we build: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works.
- A 90-day programme for a standard residential build, written into the quotation.
- Milestone payments, or a deposit and six monthly instalments.
Call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 and tell us when the pool needs to be open.
Pools another contractor built in 6th of October
We maintain and renovate pools built by other contractors, whatever state they are in, with or without the original drawings. We survey the pool as we find it: water, shell, tiling, pipework and plant room. Each part then gets a written verdict, sound, needs work now, or can wait a season. On a repair to another company's pool, the warranty term is agreed for that job and written on the quote.
How a 6th of October pool gets priced
What the survey finds decides most of the figure on an older pool. How much of the plant room gets replaced, the size and type of pool, the compound's working rules and the finish you choose move it too. None of that can be read over the phone, so we price after a site visit. You pay nothing for the visit or the consultation, and the written quote carries a date for every stage.
When another company suits you better
A daily skim of the leaves is a job for somebody local, and we will point you elsewhere. If the lowest figure is the deciding factor, a cheaper contractor will get the job. If a club needs a pool open by a date we cannot keep, we will say so on the first call and sign nothing. Tile over an untested crack is a job we refuse as well, since our warranty covers only work we have checked ourselves.
Reaching our office from 6th of October City
We come to the pool, so you never need to make the drive. If you want to see tiles, coping and equipment before you decide, the office is open by appointment.
We are at 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, in Nasr City, just off Abbas El-Akkad.
- From Mall of Arabia or the El Hosary Mosque on Tahrir Street: pick up the 26th of July Corridor towards Cairo, then make your way to Nasr City and Abbas El-Akkad.
- From Dreamland, Mall of Egypt or Media Production City on El Wahat Road: make your way to the 26th of July Corridor, then head across Cairo to Nasr City and Abbas El-Akkad.
- From Smart Village: make your way into Cairo, then pick up Abbas El-Akkad in Nasr City.
Ring +20 102 626 1818 when you are close and we will guide you in. Office hours are Saturday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm. Closed Friday.
Frequently asked questions in 6th of October City
Do you cover pools near Mall of Arabia and the Hosary Mosque? Yes. Mall of Arabia, Tahrir Street, Dreamland, El Wahat Road, Media Production City and the numbered districts are all inside the area we cover.
Our compound pool is over twenty years old. Where do you start? With one survey of the whole pool, done with the water still in it. You get a written scope that says what has to be done before the next summer and what can wait.
Can the work be done between seasons so the pool opens on time? Yes. Give us the opening date and the programme is written back from it, stage by stage, on the quote.
Can you build a pool to competition standard for our club? Yes. Our engineers set the geometry, the lane markings and the depths to the rules, and size the hydraulics for all-day use.
Two contractors have failed to find our leak. What do you do differently? We test the pool full and test each line on its own, so the pipework and the shell are checked separately. The diagnosis comes in writing before any repair is quoted.
Who deals with the compound or club management? One named contact on our side. Readings and reports go to your manager after every visit, and anything outside the contract is quoted in writing first.
Do you work on pools another company built? Yes, in whatever state the pool is in. The first visit is a full survey, and the findings come to you on paper.
Will you give me a price on the phone? No figure before the site visit, because the survey decides it. The visit and the quote are both free, and the quote comes written and dated.
Do you give a warranty? On pools we build, yes, in writing: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works. On a repair to another company's pool, the term is agreed for that job and written on the quote.
Nearby areas we also cover
Our Nasr City office covers the rest of the west side and the coast on the same terms. We look after villa and compound pools in Sheikh Zayed next door, and summer pools on the North Coast, each one confirmed after a site visit.
Book the survey
For a swimming pool company Cairo clubs and compounds can hold to an opening date, call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 and tell us where the pool is and when it has to be open. You can email info@arcgroup-eg.com, or try our online price configurator for a starting figure from our own rate book before the visit.
Al Rowad Constructions & Pool Services, 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, Nasr City, Cairo Governorate 10506, Egypt.