Swimming Pool on a TIGHT budget!

Rolandtheroadie

What about a roll on roll off skip and a tarpaulin? Ok, this is a normal skip, roll on roll off would be bigger.

cosmokramer2004

scotsman4th wrote: »

What about a roll on roll off skip and a tarpaulin?

lol, brilliant
:rotfl:

Hintza

Forgetting the construction costs. Have you ever had any experience of running a pool? In South Africa we had one and boy was it hard work. Even when you thought you were doing everything correctly a day or so of inattention and the bloodything is the colour of the lawn. It costs a huge amount of money in chemicals and electricity to run the creepy crawly and I imagine you might need to inform Scottish Water if you plan to build one.

Have a dram and take the kids to Falls of Falloch and throw them in there that will cool down these thoughts.

ic

PasturesNew wrote: »

And it's about £150 to fill a small pool if you're on a meter.

I thought you must have a meter if you have a pool.

ormus

a swimmimg pool is probably the most useless thing you can add to your home.
its costly to build and to maintain. its not even attractive to future buyers.

my cousin lives on lanzarote. even there in the sun, her pool is hardly ever used, and is very costly in maintainance.
on average, its drained once every year for fixing leaks etc... a waste of time and money.

27col

The fact that there was a swimming pool in a house we looked at buying, was enough to make us walk away. I notice that the pool has now been filled in. So we weren't the only ones who were put off by the presence of a pool.
Some people we knew had a very nice pool integral to the house. One day they came in to find a deer swimming in the pool. They frightened it so much, trying to chase it out that it "shat" in the pool, nice job for someone.

googler

cosmokramer2004 wrote: »

I figure that compression is the main attribute of the material to be concerned with.. comparing concrete (200kg/sq.cm = ~19MPa) with polycarbonate (>80 MPa).. so I think it should be strong enough.

Unless you have something behind the polycarbonate, shouldn't you also factor in the compression of the backfilled earth behind it?

You insert the poly, backfill it, but don't compress the earth - if you did, it would cause the poly to collapse in on itself toward the centre of the structure.

Once the pool is filled, all the force acts outward on the poly, which in turn acts on the earth, which gets compressed and moves, so the poly moves to follow, leading to cracks in the poly, then your joints coming apart, then ......

Innys

Isn't the phrase "A swimming pool on a tight budget" a contradiction in terms?

bondy01

What about one of the above ground pools from shops such as Argos? Only a few hundred quid and you can dismantle it for the months of the year (ie most of them) when it isn't warm enough. I keep thinking about getting one.:)

clockworks_2

http://www.h2ofun.co.uk/in-ground-swimming-pools.htm

Have a look at that, Regardless it will cost you in the thousands but there is a ground built on here for under £10k. What is your budget?