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Work is progressing at a south coast NHS hospital on the replacement of the older steel filter, with new filters and five valve face pipework, for their hydrotherapy pool. Being located in the underbelly of the hospital, the filter couldn’t be removed without cutting it up into small sections. Taking five days, the media was emptied into a skip, then the filter cut up into sections and removed. Just to complicate the new build, there is no access for a single filter of a similar size to replace it. Therefore, smaller diameter filters are to be fitted, which have already been lowered into the plantroom from an access gantry above, with about 25mm clearance on each side. The total contract build schedule is two weeks, from draining the old filter through to rebuild completion and recommissioning.