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Diy swimming pool ideas

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 951 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    How about a pre-formed pond liner. They are made of rigid plastic. You could try your local garden centre.
    http://www.clearpond.com.au/images/upload/howtobuild7.jpg


  • #33
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    karl tyrrell wrote: »
    Three kids and a dog in a wheelie bin

    tell them they have to take turns


  • #34
    karl tyrrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭karl tyrrell


    Deleted User wrote: »
    How about a pre-formed pond liner. They are made of rigid plastic. You could try your local garden centre.
    http://www.clearpond.com.au/images/upload/howtobuild7.jpg

    Probably cost a fortune just thinking the ground would be like cement at the moment so the hay is top of my list


  • #35
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    karl tyrrell wrote: »
    How much is a bale of hay it looks like the best option

    Depends on the bale. Small square could be about a fiver, round bales maybe €20/ €25 and much the same for a silage (wrapped) bale. The tarp ( lining of the pool) and ropes could set you back too as most farmers will have used their tarp already. Looks class though.


  • #36
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Retire to your bathroom to consider. Notice large tub shaped object. Fill bath-type thing with cool water.

    Problem solved.

    You're welcome.

    Failing that, you live about 30 minutes drive from the ruddy Irish sea!!! Take them to the beach!!


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  • #37
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Stick the kiddies in the washing machine, they'll never pester you again, guaranteed.














    HEALTH AND SAFETY NOTICE

    UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE WASHING MACHINE BE TURNED ON, PARTICULARLY IF THE CHILD IS UNACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT.


  • #38
    martinedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    not hay.

    STRAW

    cheaper, lighter, and the bales will be more solid, as Hay bales shrink as they continue to dry and so the strings go all loose.

    and silage cover doubled up is the best liner. strong, flexible and (potentially) very wide.

    sorry, I'll stop being a culchie now.......


  • #39
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    karl tyrrell wrote: »
    I need ideas for a diy pool my kids are driving me mad i can't get one anywhere all sold out i am even thinking of digging a hole in the garden and using the pollytunnel plastic its So hot help.

    fill a wheelie bin full of water.


  • #40
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is this publicity pic photoshopped or what??


  • #41
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Fill one of those Lidl kayaks with water and voila!


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  • #42
    wingnut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭wingnut


    The CoOps have big round drinking troughs for cattle.


  • #43
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Argos.... sell pools...

    They're all sold out!!!

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #44
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    mango salsa wrote: »
    They're all sold out!!!

    Who would have thought that there would be a shortage of Pools and Fans in Ireland? I saw a queue of about 200 people outside a shop in Limerick yesterday where they were going to sell pools at 2 pm...1 per customer.


  • #45
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Pete Townsend of The Who once famously said..........

    "i only wanted to be a rock star so as to make enough money to have a swimming pool in my back garden"

    bit of rock trivia there for ya


  • #46
    GT_TDI_150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭GT_TDI_150


    fryup wrote: »
    Pete Townsend of The Who once famously said..........

    "i only wanted to be a rock star so as to make enough money to have a swimming pool in my back garden"

    bit of rock trivia there for ya


    Buy a plastc sand box, fill it and lid with water -> 2 paddling pools


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had a very posh upbringing. Dad made us a swimming pool by filling the dumper with water. Good times!

    Or, childrens slide, some sort of plastic, hose and fairy liquid. Put hose at top of slide and plastic at bottom. Try to get plastic as long as possible. Squirt copius amounts of fairy liquid on slide, plastic and kids. Turn hose on.

    Hours of fun ;-)


  • #48
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Freddy Smelly wrote: »
    fill a wheelie bin full of water.


    https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1000285_341109486023041_1943419179_n.jpg

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #49
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    I made one with Plywood and a roll of plastic 2 days ago.I will have pics later.


  • #50
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    MY NEW OLYMPIC SIZE SWIMMING POOL !!!!!!11!


  • #51
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    MY NEW OLYMPIC SIZE SWIMMING POOL !!!!!!11!

    Size of your hand, the women must love that.


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  • #52
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Keith wrote: »
    Size of your hand, the women must love that.

    You know what they say about big hands...
















    big gloves.


  • #53
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Cant beat the real thing:D
    http://s962.photobucket.com/user/mech1111/slideshow/pool

    Diy slide just to stay on topic:D


  • #54
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Mech1 wrote: »
    Cant beat the real thing:D
    http://s962.photobucket.com/user/mech1111/slideshow/pool

    Diy slide just to stay on topic:D

    Lifejackets!!


  • #55
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    MadsL wrote: »
    Lifejackets!!

    Get some down in Lidl


  • #56
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    MY NEW OLYMPIC SIZE SWIMMING POOL !!!!!!11!

    that's quite impressive,how much did the sh1te to build it cost?


  • #57
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭Mech1


    MadsL wrote: »
    Lifejackets!!

    They cant swim!!! and it was still filling, safety first. no excuses.


  • #58
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    that's quite impressive,how much did the sh1te to build it cost?

    I had 2 sheets of ply there,so that was pretty much free,the rest (plastic and foam) cost about 17 euro all in.Don't need the foam really though.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wtf on the life jackets.


  • #60
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭Mech1


    MadsL wrote: »
    Lifejackets!!

    And they have much more fun when they work out that they cant sink, total confidence in the water now its twice as deep:D

    http://s962.photobucket.com/user/mech1111/media/pool/IMG_0629.jpg.html


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  • #61
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Bring beer, bring bikini, your welcome!!!!

    pm for addy, D16.


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