Indoor swimming pool rooms, or natatoriums, provide year-round recreational and therapeutic opportunities to benefit hotels, sports clubs, schools, wellness centers, homes, and more. However, the design and products you use for interior pool room construction must meet particular technical requirements to ensure a long-lasting, efficient installation that will protect your significant investment.
Indoor pools, whether at in-ground level, partially in-ground, or a movable above-ground floor, contain a large body of water that creates higher humidity, warm temperatures, and elevated chemical levels within the room’s space. If not controlled, the moisture, heat, and chemicals will damage the room’s structural integrity. It can also create an uncomfortable and unhealthy environment.
Therefore, the design of an interior pool room, including its soffits, ceilings, and walls, should include moisture, temperature, and chemical-resistant materials in order to help prevent structurally damaging corrosion, mold, and mildew and to protect the pool room’s integrity and air quality. In addition, the indoor pool room should have a dehumidification system to manage the humidity.
Other challenges to interior pool room installation include:
- Space limitation during installation
- Ensuring adequate structural support
- Achieving unique customization: shape, aesthetics, etc.
Architects and builders can refer to the following standards and guidelines for help to design a long-lasting and healthy indoor pool:
- Model Aquatic Health Code Section 4.2.2
- ASHRAE Standard 90.1, Building Envelope Design
- ASHRAE Standard 62.1, Standards for Ventilation and Air Quality
- Aquatic Facility Operator Manual, Chapter 20, “Concepts of Automation and Control,” by the National Recreation and Park Association
Building professionals can also contact Sto® professionals at (800) 221-2397 to discuss specialty solutions for soffits, ceilings, and walls of interior pool rooms.
StoQuik® Finish System for Pool Rooms
- Structural Wall Assembly
- Reinforcing Mesh: Sto Mesh
- Basecoat: Sto Flexyl
- Primer: StoPrime® Sand
- Specialty Systems and Solutions Finishes: Specialty Systems Finish Selector
The high-performing StoQuik® Finish System for Pool Rooms is an attractive and durable exterior skin for indoor residential and commercial pool rooms and similar enclosed spaces that are subject to high humidity, chlorine, and other chemicals and can be finished with a wide variety of Sto finishes, colors and textures.
StoQuik® Finish System for Soffits and Ceilings
- Sheathing
- Reinforcing Mesh: Sto Mesh
- Basecoat: Sto BTS® Xtra
- Primer: StoPrime® Sand
- Specialty Systems and Solutions Finish Options: Specialty Systems Finish Selector
Builders can use direct-applied Exterior Finish System (DEFS) StoQuik® Finish System for Soffits and Ceilings on weather-protected walls and un-insulated exterior soffit and ceiling application.
Solutions for Specialty Substrates
StoQuik Finish for Concrete and CMU
StoQuik Finish for Interior Gypsum Wallboard
STO® Specialty Solutions for Soffits, Ceilings, and Interior Pool Rooms
StoQuik® Finish System for Pool Rooms and StoQuik® Finish System for Soffits and Ceilings offer a superior solution for soffits, ceilings, and interior pool rooms. Our products resist the high humidity, warm temperatures, and elevated chemical levels typical in indoor swimming pool rooms, natatoriums, or spas, resist structurally damaging corrosion, mold, and mildew and help to protect the pool room’s integrity and air quality. Sto® products for soffits, ceilings, and the walls of interior pool rooms provide several other significant benefits:
- Fast, durable, and quality construction, to save time and money
- Easy access, simple, less costly maintenance
- Sustainable, recyclable products that minimize waste and save energy
- Aesthetically flexible, which allows for a wide range of sizes, shapes, colors, and textures to accommodate most existing spaces
- Built-in structural support
Get in touch with StoPanel® professionals for more on specialty solutions for soffits, ceilings, and interior pool rooms!
