Swimming pools

Flugelhorn

Looking at houses ( 4 / 5 bed detached - rural part of the country)

Came across a couple I liked yesterday ... until I realised they have swimming pools in back garden. Not fancy covered ones but open air - the sort you can use on about 2 days a year :eek:

The agents make a big deal of them but just wondered if others find them as much of an offput? do they increase / decrease the value of the house?

If we really like the house , what can be done with the pool? Can they filled in / removed / turned into a giant water feature??

00ec25

Flugelhorn wrote: »

, what can be done with the pool? Can they filled in / removed / turned into a giant water feature??

yes of course they can. Exactly what a neighbour of ours did when they retired and decided the maintenance cost was too much on a (modest) 7m x 5m pool. It is now a bit of lat lawn.

LandyAndy

I hate the things. I wouldn't even look at a house that had one unless the price reflected the cost of removing it entirely.

Davesnave

Many people do works in the house and garden landscaping with a new property. Below-ground pools make a great place to bury some of the carp. Obviously, one has to be selective about what goes in.

Or would people rather pay for skips? £280 for 6m3 round my way. :eek:
Edit:

I'd love one for a sunken garden. Just the job when the chilly winds are cutting across the hills on otherwise nice evenings.

babyblade41

it's not always as simple as just filling it in, it's costly and can become problematic.

Ours was 30 ft x 15 .. 4ft at shallow end and 9ft at deep end . We turned into a salt water pump as chlorine was just horrid.

For me a swimming pool would put me totally off, ours was heated and the costs were astronomic and maintenance was a complete hassle...never would I entertain one be it indoors, out or not heated , never again

Flugelhorn

Can imagine might get pricey filling it in

Davesnave

babyblade41 wrote: »

it's not always as simple as just filling it in, it's costly and can become problematic.

In what way costly? We filled a swimming pool sized hole with rubble here, but if we hadn't had enough, I know we could have found more!


I think it depends on specifics, and I can understand there will be more problems in suburbia than where I am, but location wasn't stated. It's not an automatic 'no.'

There again, in suburbia, a pool may be seen as an asset. They don't have wild swimming, like we do!

Ithaca

Davesnave wrote: »

Below-ground pools make a great place to bury some of the carp.

I would imagine the carp probably prefer to have the water left in!

Vegastare

Well a previous manager bought house with open pool and was really bragging about how we would have a great office party etc...then reality hit with her fuel bill...seem it was on a business tariff because of higher than normal domestic usage....she then had some on going dispute with utility company.

But many years ago friends bought a house with pool and right from day one they knew they were going to fill it in.

I guess it is down to each person choice...

babyblade41

It depends what it was built in, ours was full on clay .

Slithery

Underground bunker perhaps?