The Tiki Pool of the Wassenaar Duinrell gets a new Hawaii-appearance, with colored LED lighting, new murals , a completely renovated tower outside the slides and two million gallons of fresh water.
Jan van der Graaff, manager of engineering and maintenance of Duinrell. © AD / Frank Jansen. The sounds of screaming and splashing children and adults are traded for piercing noise of drilling, hammering and chopping. The pools beneath the giant slides in the Tiki Pool in holiday and Duinrell are empty. There are now around workmen drilling and tiles. The walkways along the baths are covered with plastic. Threads are drawn and climbed scaffolding.
One of the biggest refurbishing during the annual winter break of the water park is underway. Fifteen days about one hundred employees and external experts to January 24 to open the doors of the Tiki again. Then not only two million liters of fresh water sit in the bath, even the slides and suspensions should all be checked, broken tiles are replaced, renewed and outside lighting tower to the slides are renewed. There should also be a different “feel” his experience.
Experience
,, More Hawaii, ” says Jan van der Graaff, manager of engineering and maintenance Duinrell and project leader of the strong approach to the Tiki Pool. ,, The decorations and drawings are adapted to the walls. Moreover, we do so gradually, as we go out for a few years. ”
It all has to do with ‘experience’. Because the Tiki Pool is not just a pool, Peter Wines is as spokesman Duinrell never emphasize tired. The Tiki Pool is a swimming pool and water and for 31 years the largest in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. And although no trendsetter more must recognize wines, but with a solid attendance of 700,000 per year. Forty percent of them come from outside the Netherlands, mostly from Germany. ,, There are such fans when they come back and forth on one day, ” said Wines.
Fifteen
For all those people and new guest bath is refreshed annually in January. Fifteen days maximum. But this year the job is bigger than other years. That is also because water has become a story and also in the field of energy, there are other requirements and other techniques, Van der Graaff said. Yet everything must be finished within those fifteen days.
That includes two million liters of fresh water to the correct temperature of 30 degrees and chemicals in the right balance. ,, The baths full run with all that water is just a matter of putting the tap, ” Van der Graaff said. The baths deflate is a matter of the stop pulling out. Only the collapse of the enormous amount to the sewer must be reported to the water board. Taps Reassembling open, done a week before the reopening. ,, The water is 11 degrees inside and must be brought to 30 degrees. ”
Buffer Cellars
Not only the engine will be included in the cleaning and refurbishment even the so-called buffer cellars. It lint swimsuits come puddles of children and other irregularities justified. Therefore ,, good swimsuits also so important, ” said Wines. ,, Fluff go sit in the filters. “” It is not for nothing that there may be no underpants worn under swimwear in the Tiki Pool. ,, That is where our lifeguards on top. ”
How much money winter refit costs does not Wines statements.
The job at the water park is huge, but it must be done necessarily in fifteen days. © AD / Frank Jansen. 
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