What earns the name best stocked pool equipment supplier in Cairo
Stocked, for a plant room, means every machine in it comes from a name you can look up, chosen and fitted by one contractor who answers for all of it. These are the facts behind that, and you can check each one before you sign.
- Five equipment names across the whole room. Pumps, filters, heating, lighting and dosing gear from Hayward, Pentair, AstralPool and Aqua Water Systems. Panels, breakers and automation on Schneider Electric.
- Sizing done inside the company. Structural, hydraulic and MEP engineering are all in house. The flow, the pipe and the electrical load get worked out by our people.
- Fitted by our own site teams. The people who install your plant are our employees.
- Commissioned before you take it over. Commissioning and Handover is the last of our five project stages, after Equipment and Finishing.
- Five years in writing. On pools we build: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works, in writing. On a repair to another company's pool, the term is agreed per job and written on the quote.
- One contractor for the room. You make one call about the pump, the heater or the panel, and there is no argument between three shops about whose part failed.
Pool equipment from a company working in Egypt since 2001
We have worked on pools in Egypt for twenty five years under one name. The office is at 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, Nasr City, Cairo Governorate 10506, Egypt. Office hours are Saturday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm. Closed Friday.
We also design, build, maintain and repair pools. A pump performs only as well as the pipe, skimmers, drain and balance tank it is connected to, and our engineers deal with all of them.
A pump sized to your water and to the pipe behind it
A pump gets chosen from three numbers: the cubic metres in your pool, how often that water has to pass the filter each day, and how hard the pump has to push. The brand comes after.
Flow, pipe and the climb to the plant room
Turnover is how long the plant takes to send a volume equal to the whole pool through the filter once. Divide the volume by the turnover you want and you get the flow the pump has to deliver.
Head is what the pump pushes against: pipe length, bends, valves, and any height between the water and the plant room. A plant room on the roof above a pool needs a different pump from one at the pool's edge, even when the two pools hold the same water.
An oversized pump forces water through the filter faster than the media can hold dirt, and burns power every hour it runs. An undersized one never reaches turnover. We size pump and pipe on one set of figures.
Variable speed pumps beside a house
A variable speed pump moves the day's water at a gentle pace over more hours. Halve the speed and the power drawn drops to a fraction, so the same daily volume costs less on the meter and the hum near the house all but goes.
Filters matched to the flow they have to carry
Every filter has a flow it was built for. Push more water through it and fine dirt goes back into the pool, so the filter area gets matched to the pump and the two are picked as a pair.
Sand, glass and cartridge media all wear out, and from the poolside worn media looks like a chemical problem. The pressure gauge shows it sooner, so the clean reading gets noted when a filter goes in. Multiport, check and isolating valves get fitted so one machine can come out without draining the loop.
Heat pumps, gas and electric heaters for the cooler months
Heating adds the cooler months either side of a Cairo summer to an outdoor pool, and keeps an indoor pool usable all year. We supply heat pumps, gas heaters and electric heaters, and the choice follows your pool and your site.
| Heat pump | Gas heater | Electric heater | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it heats | Takes heat from the air and moves it into the water | Burns gas and passes the heat to the water | An element heats the water directly |
| Suited to | Keeping the water at one temperature for months | Warming a cold pool in a short time | Jacuzzis, spas and small plunge pools |
| What the site needs | Free air around the unit, and enough electrical supply | Gas on site, and a flue that vents safely | Room on the electrical board |
Most heat leaves through the surface overnight, so the heater, the cover and the run hours get specified together.
Underwater lights wired so only the lamp wears out
A pool light is a lamp sitting in a niche, fed by a cable through a gland, from a transformer, on an earthed circuit. Get the parts behind the lamp right and changing it later is a small job. Cable runs in conduit, transformers and junctions stay dry, and every light circuit is earthed and protected at the panel. On a renovation, sound existing niches get reused.
Automation on Schneider Electric panels
Pump speed and run hours, filtration cycles, heating set points, lights, water features and any dosing loop get wired back to one panel built on Schneider Electric components. Each circuit also gets a hand switch, so the plant can still be run without the program.
On a second home, the plant keeps its schedule while the house stands empty. On a shared pool, the panel shows what ran and for how long. An older pool can take automation too, as far as its electrical supply and pipework allow.
Every machine in the plant room, and what it gets sized against
| Equipment | Sized against | When it is the wrong size |
|---|---|---|
| Pump | Volume, turnover and head | Noise, high power use, or water that never clears |
| Filter | The pump's flow, and filter area | Dirt passing back into the pool, or pressure climbing within days |
| Heater or heat pump | Surface area, cover, and the season you want | The pool never reaching temperature, or a heater running all night |
| Lighting | Pool size and niche positions | Dark corners, or tile broken to reach a lamp |
| Automation panel | Every load in the room and the supply | Tripping breakers, or plant running on manual |
| Valves and pipe | Flow and pressure | A room that cannot be serviced without draining the loop |
Commissioning by our own crews before handover
Commissioning proves new plant against the design. Pump flow gets checked against its sizing figure, the filter is run and backwashed with its clean pressure noted, the heater is fired to its set point, and every automation sequence, light circuit and breaker gets tested.
You get the settings in writing at handover, so whoever looks after the pool next starts from known numbers.
New plant on pools other contractors built
We maintain and renovate pools other contractors built, and their plant rooms come with them. The first visit records what is installed: the nameplate on every machine, the pipe sizes, the valves, the electrical supply and the panel. You get the findings in writing, machine by machine, with what is due for change and what still has years in it.
Working plant stays, and the quote names it.
Where we supply and fit pool equipment
Our teams go out from the Nasr City office six days a week across Greater Cairo, and any swimming pool company Cairo families buy plant from should be able to come back to it. Compound villas in Madinaty's newer districts usually get plant chosen with the pool, while older villa pools in Al Rehab often need new equipment matched to pipe laid years ago. Further out, hotel and second home pools in El Gouna and Hurghada are planned around salt air and heavy use, and work there is confirmed after a site visit.
| Part of the city | Areas |
|---|---|
| East Cairo | Nasr City, Heliopolis, Al Rehab, Madinaty, El Shorouk |
| New Cairo | Fifth Settlement, Katameya, Mostakbal City, New Administrative Capital |
| South Cairo | Maadi, Mokattam, Uptown Cairo |
| West Cairo | Sheikh Zayed, 6th of October |
| Outside Cairo | North Coast, Ain Sokhna, El Gouna and Hurghada, the Delta, Upper Egypt |
Spares, nameplates and shared pools
If you manage a club, hotel or compound pool, you need to know what a failed seal or control board will mean before it fails. We fit only Hayward, Pentair, AstralPool, Aqua Water Systems and Schneider Electric, so the brand and model of every machine we install are on its nameplate and on your paperwork, and anybody can look them up.
Shared pool plant gets sized for the busiest hours, with one named contact and a written scope your board can approve line by line.
Set beside an unbranded pump fitted the same day
An unbranded pump chosen because it fits the old mounting bolts will circulate water. It comes with no flow figure, no filter check and nobody to call.
From us you get the room sized by engineers, fitted by our own crews, commissioned with the numbers written down, and on pools we build, five years on the electromechanical works in writing. It costs more than the same-day pump, and we say so up front.
People who do not need new plant from us
If your pump runs quietly, the filter gauge holds steady, and the plant carries a brand with parts in the market, leave it alone. Call us when one of those changes.
If all you want is the lowest price on a pump with nothing measured and nothing written down, another supplier will suit you better, and we will tell you so when you call.
What sets the price of new plant, after a free site visit
Five things decide the figure, and each one has to be measured at the pool.
- The pool. Its volume, and whether it is a skimmer, overflow, indoor or rooftop pool.
- The plant room. Its distance and height from the water, and the floor space inside.
- The existing plant. Which machines can stay.
- Heating. The months you want to swim and the heater the site can feed.
- The power. What the board can take on top of what it carries now.
We measure before we price, because a number guessed down the phone only moves upwards. The site visit and the consultation are free and carry no obligation, and the quote comes from our own rate book.
Call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 to book the site visit.
Seven photos to take in your plant room
A phone and ten minutes.
- The pump plate. Close enough to read the brand, model and power.
- The filter. The whole tank, with its valve.
- The pressure gauge. Taken straight after a backwash.
- The timer or panel. Showing the hours the pump runs.
- The heater. Its plate, if the pool has one.
- The electrical board. With the breaker labels in view.
- The pipe run. From the plant room door towards the pool.
Send them on WhatsApp before the visit.
Frequently asked questions about pool pumps, filters and heaters
How do I know if my pump is the right size? The pump has to match the volume of the pool, the turnover and the pipe it pushes through. Send the pool size and a photo of the nameplate, and the site visit checks all three.
Can you change only the pump and keep the filter? In many cases. The filter's rated flow gets compared with the new pump first, and you hear the result before you buy.
My pump is suddenly loud. Is that an equipment job or a repair? A single machine failing on an otherwise sound system is a job for our pool repair team, who find why it failed. A room that is undersized or worn out across the board is an equipment job.
Do you install Hayward and Pentair equipment? Yes. We supply and fit Hayward, Pentair, AstralPool and Aqua Water Systems, with Schneider Electric on the panels and automation.
Should a villa pool have a heat pump or a gas heater? A heat pump with a cover suits holding the water warm across the cooler months. Gas suits warming a cold pool quickly, where the site has a gas supply.
Will new equipment fix water that keeps going cloudy? Sometimes, when the pump or filter is too small. Dosing and water balance belong to our water treatment work, sized to your pool, and the site visit tells you which one the pool needs.
Who looks after the plant once it is installed? Plant needs the gauge read, the filter backwashed and the panel checked regularly. That belongs to a weekly maintenance visit on a fixed day, so the people who know your room keep seeing it.
What does new pool equipment cost? It depends on the volume, the pool type, what is installed now, the heating you want and the electrical supply. The site visit and the quote are both free.
Send the pump label and we will size what replaces it
Tell us the size of the pool, its type, and what is in the plant room now. The site visit ends with a written list of the equipment and a price off our rate book. Say no and you owe nothing.
Call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818, email info@arcgroup-eg.com, or start your free quote online. The office is at 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, Nasr City, Cairo Governorate 10506, Egypt. Office hours are Saturday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm. Closed Friday.