A few things that come to mind about pools are city ordinance. Around here you are supposed to have a fence around the area where your pool is setup. Sometimes I think your home owner's insurance have issues as well. Another thing to consider is the amount of trees around the area. Not only to present problems with leaves, falling branches but the shading on the pool. Lots of sun is nice but in my experience the sun also adds to your work of keeping the chemicals balanced. How level is the yard. I decided one year to surprise my first wife with her own pool. I went to Words and purchased a 15 foot round pool with medal sides and posts with a vinyl liner. It said on the box that 2 good men could install it in a few hours. I took it home and my brother-in-law and I started the project. We discovered where I intended to set it up had about an 8 inch drop. We spent the better part of the days digging, scraping, filling and finding things like railroad ties to level it up. It was a joke after that because since he wasn't able to help me finish the job and my wife and her friends had to help me set up the pool that the 2 guys weren't good enough to do it, smile! We also had the problem of neighbors because I didn't have a good place to empty the pool or for any run off to run to and the folks behind me objected to any water from my pool getting in to their flowers and garden. Now, my pool water tested better than the water from the city and especially was better than the water they pumped out from a creek behind their home, but they didn't like the idea of the pool next to them. When I installed a new patio I had a drain put in so I could drain off the pool in to my basement floor drain so I didn't have to worry about those people and then one year I forgot to lower the level of the pool before the freeze and they got quite a bit of water, boy wer they unhappy. Depending on your environment, you can have a lot of maintenance, so maybe one of those temporary ones would be best. At any rate, enjoy swimming and if you are like most folks, the less yard you have to maintain the better, so fill your whole yard with the pool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennifer Jackson To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] swimming pools
Hey everybody, you guys have been lots of help with my housing questions. I really appreciate it. My newest question is about pools. I am not interested in a house with a pool now as my kids are so little. Perhaps if I just had one and could swim with him to supervise, but with three there is no way. Anyway, how big a space in the yard do I need for a pool? I am thinking above ground. I would love something big enough to really swim laps in, but probably I am going with something smaller and more reasonable. I know we have several people with pools on the list, and I will welcome your opinions. Jennifer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
