OT: Does anyone have a swimming pool?

woodford2barbican

Thinking about buying a house which comes with a pool & want some advice from anyone who has an outdoor pool......

mudcow007

someone i know is mates with Dave Unsworth (is/ was an everton football player) he said his gas bill for his heated pool was £3000 or £4000 per quarter :shock:

bails87

woodford2barbican wrote:

Thinking about buying a house which comes with a pool & want some advice from anyone who has an outdoor pool......

I get my butler to deal with all the maintenance. If he's not too busy hiring himself a new somelier. So the only advice I can offer is to make sure it's got water in it before you jump in.

essex-commuter

woodford2barbican wrote:

Thinking about buying a house which comes with a pool & want some advice from anyone who has an outdoor pool......

I have this one (but in orange), what sort of advice do you need?

iPete

The parents have one, its housed in a green house type construction. Tend to rely on the solar panels and the sun () to keep it warm, it'd be damn expensive to heat it from the mains.

freddiegrubb

:oops: I know a bloke in oz. who in the past had a pool, now says never again, cleaning pumping chemicals etc. too much grief. He says now if he wants to swim it's down to the the local council pool & let them have the work etc.

bails87

Can't you just burn peasants to generate heat?

sketchley

Ask to see current owners heating and servicing bills (including chemicals) for the pool for the last year. It will increase your outgoings by an amount per month, best know what that is.

sampras38

I have something similar to this, with the heater in a garage next door out of site, but we rarely use the heater. Occasionally we'll leave it on overnight if the weather is particularly good, but generally just use it without. Ours is quite deep and takes a while to heat up.

itboffin

One of my mates has a med sized outdoor heated pool, unless you're loaded you'd better be down with ice swimming :shock:

rjsterry

I think estate agents generally consider that a pool reduces the value of a property due to the maintenance and running costs, so I'd steer away unless you particularly want a pool. Also, how old is the pool, and how long are you looking to live there. If the pool is a few years old already, then you are quite likely to have to replace a lot of the kit and maybe the lining of the pool in the not too distant future.

woodford2barbican

The boiler & pump are new & it is well maintained. I think lining will need doing sooner though but will get someone in to look at it prior to purchase.

The pool will not be a deciding factor in buying the house, just want more info. But obviously recognise that it will cost me money to run.

@bails87 - Was thinking about burning peasants but they leave a nasty residue and apparently £50 notes burn much more cleanly

@mudcow007 - someone told me £3K for the year the other day. Lots of scare stories out there! Footballers are a different league though aren't they?

@Sampras38 - do you leave the pump on all the time?

The pool is 10m x 5m. I expect that we will use it May - Sept. Could I heat it for just a few hours every day during period to maintain a decent temp (19 - 21C) or do I need to leave the boiler on all the time adjusted to maintain that temp?

SimonAH

I've got a pond, does that count?

woodford2barbican

itboffin wrote:

One of my mates has a med sized outdoor heated pool, unless you're loaded you'd better be down with ice swimming :shock:

Can you define loaded?

Then I will be able to base my decision on your advice!

sampras38

woodford2barbican wrote:

The boiler & pump are new & it is well maintained. I think lining will need doing sooner though but will get someone in to look at it prior to purchase.

The pool will not be a deciding factor in buying the house, just want more info. But obviously recognise that it will cost me money to run.

@bails87 - Was thinking about burning peasants but they leave a nasty residue and apparently £50 notes burn much more cleanly

@mudcow007 - someone told me £3K for the year the other day. Lots of scare stories out there! Footballers are a different league though aren't they?

@Sampras38 - do you leave the pump on all the time?

The pool is 10m x 5m. I expect that we will use it May - Sept. Could I heat it for just a few hours every day during period to maintain a decent temp (19 - 21C) or do I need to leave the boiler on all the time adjusted to maintain that temp?

No, the pump is only on when we use it, or periodically when we do a clean.

dhope

woodford2barbican wrote:

itboffin wrote:

One of my mates has a med sized outdoor heated pool, unless you're loaded you'd better be down with ice swimming :shock:

Can you define loaded?

If you have to ask the price...

sketchley

dhope wrote:

woodford2barbican wrote:

itboffin wrote:

One of my mates has a med sized outdoor heated pool, unless you're loaded you'd better be down with ice swimming :shock:

Can you define loaded?

If you have to ask the price...

Carbon + Di2 + Deep Carbon Rims on the commuter.

sketchley

Different pools and system cost different amounts to run so be sure you know what this one costs. A director here has heated pool and pool house so he can us it all year round, I think there's gym equipment and a sauna in there too! Costs him a lot of money to run, I think he said it's a couple of hundred notes a month on heating and chemicals. But he knew this before buying the house as he looked at previous owners bills so budgeted for it. However by the time you take in to account gym membership for his family it's not the much more. Also find out how long / difficult maintenance is do. You my find you need to spend a few hours week cleaning which can be a bummer (especially with a nagging wife). Of course a "pool man" will do the job for you but again it's more money.

I believe new filter systems use less chemicals (UV filters etc) and you can save a fortune heating the pool via solar, both of which can be retrofitted so I'd look at those options too.

With the exception of the director with pool house who can swim every morning before work, my friends that have had outdoor pools say far too much work and expense for a few days use in the summer.

Buy the house fill the pool in, sell off the equipment on ebay and turn it in to a vegetable patch.

fatherted

A friend has one.

A few years ago I remember him talking of gas bills of 75pds per week

mickbrown

Bloody hell, you people know people with pool?

*Shakes head and wanders back down t'pit.

DonDaddyD

Why the fudge do you need an Outdoor pool in England? For those two days when its unbearbly hot and happens to be a weekend?

Indoor subteranean pool, a girl I know has one, lives in Holborn (I didn't actually think it was possible to live in such a place).

I also have an indoor pool. Though I call mine a bath.

CiB

I've got a pool. Nice, heated, separate changing areas, people at the door to welcome visitors, lifeguards on duty, occasional fit burds & attractive young mothers drop in, there's a sauna alongside & lots of people from the surrounding villages use it as long as they contribute to the costs. I call it The Swan Pool in Buckingham, or The Local Baths. It's so much easier and cost-effective to let the local council run a swimming pool on your behalf.

Isn't having your own a pool a bit naff these days, a bit footballers wives?

woodford2barbican

Sketchley wrote:

dhope wrote:

woodford2barbican wrote:

itboffin wrote:

One of my mates has a med sized outdoor heated pool, unless you're loaded you'd better be down with ice swimming :shock:

Can you define loaded?

If you have to ask the price...

Carbon + Di2 + Deep Carbon Rims on the commuter.

Columbus SL steel tubing, 1990 vintage, friction shifters, 7 speed, box section rims.

woodford2barbican

CiB wrote:

I've got a pool. Nice, heated, separate changing areas, people at the door to welcome visitors, lifeguards on duty, occasional fit burds & attractive young mothers drop in, there's a sauna alongside & lots of people from the surrounding villages use it as long as they contribute to the costs. I call it The Swan Pool in Buckingham, or The Local Baths. It's so much easier and cost-effective to let the local council run a swimming pool on your behalf.

Isn't having your own a pool a bit naff these days, a bit footballers wives?

Maybe, but like public transport the problem with public pools is the other people.

woodford2barbican

DonDaddyD wrote:

Why the fudge do you need an Outdoor pool in England? For those two days when its unbearbly hot and happens to be a weekend?

Indoor subteranean pool, a girl I know has one, lives in Holborn (I didn't actually think it was possible to live in such a place).

I also have an indoor pool. Though I call mine a bath.

I agree. But it is already there. I will use it though. I swim a lot & IMO 10m is just about enough to exercise in.

Greg T

A mate of mine had a pool - said he'd never have one again, money and effort black hole.

woodford2barbican

Sketchley wrote:

Different pools and system cost different amounts to run so be sure you know what this one costs. A director here has heated pool and pool house so he can us it all year round, I think there's gym equipment and a sauna in there too! Costs him a lot of money to run, I think he said it's a couple of hundred notes a month on heating and chemicals. But he knew this before buying the house as he looked at previous owners bills so budgeted for it. However by the time you take in to account gym membership for his family it's not the much more. Also find out how long / difficult maintenance is do. You my find you need to spend a few hours week cleaning which can be a bummer (especially with a nagging wife). Of course a "pool man" will do the job for you but again it's more money.

I believe new filter systems use less chemicals (UV filters etc) and you can save a fortune heating the pool via solar, both of which can be retrofitted so I'd look at those options too.

With the exception of the director with pool house who can swim every morning before work, my friends that have had outdoor pools say far too much work and expense for a few days use in the summer.

Buy the house fill the pool in, sell off the equipment on ebay and turn it in to a vegetable patch.

Ha! Start new job soon in which I will be a company director. So I therefore presume I should buy the house and the pool.

unixnerd

An office I once worked in had a 40 foot diameter 30 foot high tank for testing ROVs in. I think the odd diver was dunked in now and then too. It was in Aberdeen and it wasn't heated so we seldom used it for swimming :-)

You did get a nice view of the town from the portacabin we had perched at the top though.

itboffin

You could empty it, put in a ramp and roof, bish-bosh you have a basement workshop ready to be filled with all things bicycle related.

phy2sll2

itboffin wrote:

You could empty it, put in a ramp and roof, bish-bosh you have a basement workshop ready to be filled with all things bicycle related.

Bit of banked concrete... et voila! A velodrome...

edhornby

10m sounds a bit short for proper excercise to me.... entirely your call but you'd be doing a lot of turns to get any kind of length and half of each length would be push off

with a neck weight for freediving I can easily push 10 or 15m