Deleting a pool
Discussion
Cheers for the replies, mainly useful suggestions. I'm particularly keen on the ball pool and patio
Guess the answer on cost is 'how long is a piece of string', depends what we do with it.
Keeping it is one option but it takes up most of what would be a nice lawn, and with 2 kids (3 and infant) we think that (I) its a liability - yes we can put a fence up but the eldest is remarkably adept at climbing - takes after me - and (ii) on balance we'll get more use from a lawn than a pool. If we wanted a patch of rough grass and a patio garden, we'd just buy something in London and be done with it. Keeping it will cost £10k as we're going to want (mrs is going to want) a child-resistant cover for peace of mind.
Guess the answer on cost is 'how long is a piece of string', depends what we do with it.
Keeping it is one option but it takes up most of what would be a nice lawn, and with 2 kids (3 and infant) we think that (I) its a liability - yes we can put a fence up but the eldest is remarkably adept at climbing - takes after me - and (ii) on balance we'll get more use from a lawn than a pool. If we wanted a patch of rough grass and a patio garden, we'd just buy something in London and be done with it. Keeping it will cost £10k as we're going to want (mrs is going to want) a child-resistant cover for peace of mind.
We went round to an Auntie's house with our 3.5 yo and 1.5 yo boys for an afternoon, and she has a pool. It's heated. Myself and the boys spent most of the afternoon in it, coming out only for a drink and the occasional burger.
Without knowing your precise situation, I'd say keep it. (Subject to making it kiddie safe, obv.) Alternatively, ours would get plenty of use out of a little skate park. Could you make a mini-velodrome?
https://utrecht2015.com/nl/artikel/red-bull-mini-d...
Another option would be a simple frame to patio level, sheeting over to keep it dry, then decking over the top, and deal with it in a couple of years.
Without knowing your precise situation, I'd say keep it. (Subject to making it kiddie safe, obv.) Alternatively, ours would get plenty of use out of a little skate park. Could you make a mini-velodrome?
https://utrecht2015.com/nl/artikel/red-bull-mini-d...
Another option would be a simple frame to patio level, sheeting over to keep it dry, then decking over the top, and deal with it in a couple of years.
I'll just leave this here
http://www.colinfurze.com/bunker.html
Edit, that link no longer seems to work, try this one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO25JYAaJC0
(oh, it was my formatting, both work now!)
http://www.colinfurze.com/bunker.html
Edit, that link no longer seems to work, try this one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO25JYAaJC0
(oh, it was my formatting, both work now!)
Edited by Peanut Gallery on Friday 26th August 08:36
Peanut Gallery said:
I'd love to use a spiral cellar in the sun room / dining room, that then had a passageway off the bottom that went out to the back gardenbunker. Which was completely grassed over, so no one knew it was there.Awesome cinema room.
Pools are one of those things which seem like a nice idea but I've lived in loads of places around the world and even where it is very hot a lot of people fill in their pools as they don't use them and the cost and headache of keeping them usable is significant. When we lived in Africa as kids we'd use it all summer but rarely in winter. In Dubai it was the other way around. A boss of mine had his filled in in Sydney because his early teen kids never used it. I can't imagine you'd use one for more than a week or two of days in an English summer so they'd be pretty expensive days!
The suggestion about knocking it in, filling it and letting it settle a couple of times is probably the best one so far.
The suggestion about knocking it in, filling it and letting it settle a couple of times is probably the best one so far.
I run a swimming pool company, and as well as build them, we've filled a few in.
First step is to break out the floor - all of it. Otherwise you have a big tank underground that will just fill with water.
Then take down the wall by approx 300mm all the way round - hardcore in the hole.
Then fill it. Sometimes we buy in hardcore, sometimes we used large polystyrene blocks.
250mm of topsoil all over, then turf. If you want to patio it, you'll need to avoid the 'styrene, and hardcore and Type 1 the whole thing.
Cost can be anywhere from £8k to £12k plus the VAT.
First step is to break out the floor - all of it. Otherwise you have a big tank underground that will just fill with water.
Then take down the wall by approx 300mm all the way round - hardcore in the hole.
Then fill it. Sometimes we buy in hardcore, sometimes we used large polystyrene blocks.
250mm of topsoil all over, then turf. If you want to patio it, you'll need to avoid the 'styrene, and hardcore and Type 1 the whole thing.
Cost can be anywhere from £8k to £12k plus the VAT.
Dr Interceptor said:
I run a swimming pool company, and as well as build them, we've filled a few in...
Cost can be anywhere from £8k to £12k plus the VAT.
Jesus. That's not for nothing.My suggestion of an inspection pit was a joke but given costs like that not so ridiculous.Cost can be anywhere from £8k to £12k plus the VAT.
The suggestions of a sunken patio are looking good.
2gins said:
Cheers for the replies, mainly useful suggestions. I'm particularly keen on the ball pool and patio
Guess the answer on cost is 'how long is a piece of string', depends what we do with it.
Keeping it is one option but it takes up most of what would be a nice lawn, and with 2 kids (3 and infant) we think that (I) its a liability - yes we can put a fence up but the eldest is remarkably adept at climbing - takes after me - and (ii) on balance we'll get more use from a lawn than a pool. If we wanted a patch of rough grass and a patio garden, we'd just buy something in London and be done with it. Keeping it will cost £10k as we're going to want (mrs is going to want) a child-resistant cover for peace of mind.
drain and deck over until the children are older?Guess the answer on cost is 'how long is a piece of string', depends what we do with it.
Keeping it is one option but it takes up most of what would be a nice lawn, and with 2 kids (3 and infant) we think that (I) its a liability - yes we can put a fence up but the eldest is remarkably adept at climbing - takes after me - and (ii) on balance we'll get more use from a lawn than a pool. If we wanted a patch of rough grass and a patio garden, we'd just buy something in London and be done with it. Keeping it will cost £10k as we're going to want (mrs is going to want) a child-resistant cover for peace of mind.
tomsugden said:
That is a brilliant piece of engineering!"No, Mr Bond! I expect you to DROWN!"
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