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Basement Swimming Pool.
For many years, a lot of people talked about a swimming pool but did not go ahead with one with me.
Generally, I think the extra space and cost for equipment put a pool over budget.
There seems to be more talk about them today, so here are a few of my thoughts.
The demand for swimming pools increased with Covid and lockdowns. Will it diminish?
Will you really use it?
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I know a couple, whose children grew up and moved out, with a pool they used about 4 times in the beginning then didn't use it for 15 years.
Can you have a pool big enough to have a decent swim or won't it be long enough to exercise in?
Will it be big enough for children to play polo?
Will it be in service before your children have grown up?
Perhaps you only need a jacuzzi? Or a spa pool that has a current to swim against?
This image is from Endless Pools. Other resistance pools are available.
During 2022, one of these pool companies told my client they have a 12 month wait. At Grand Designs 2023, Hydropoolswimspas.com said they have some models ready to go.
Before building a new pool, there are some choices to make.
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Water level at ground floor level. Swimming pool buried in the ground.
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Water level at or just above basement floor level. Perhaps the swimming pool has to be extra deep, deeper than the basement. This can get expensive and unsafe depending on working room and the soil stability.
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Factory built and craned in.
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This might be in a conservatory connected to the house.
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This might be craned through a hole in the roof covered by a glazed pyramid.
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Separate structure inside the basement.
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This, apparently, pleases architects and insurers the most because the pool guy cannot blame the basement guy. The basement can be a bit bigger to house all the kit beside the pool beneath the floor level people walk on.
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The basement structure is the pool structure.
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There must have been some issues because this was very unpopular with the architect and the pool company recently.
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Having decided how big you would like your pool to be, where it will go and how you will get into it and walk around it, now you need to find pool people to tell you how much equipment you will need and how much space all that needs.
Better to kill the idea off early if you cannot afford it.
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This is a basement I built during 2022. The pool company's insurer apparently insists that the pool structure is completely independent of the basement structure.
The pool structure is built inside the basement.
The walking space down either side covers room for equipment.
It is wet because the orangery above has no roof nor windows, and the beam and block is not sealed. Rain will end up in the basement spaces until the room is made weathertight.
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