Pool In A House?

theholyghost

Has anyone ever seen a "normal" house with a swimming pool? Do you know anyone with their own pool?

Watching cycling in France and Spain on TV you see lots of gardens with pools some with little glass roofs. So are their private pools around Ireland but pmore hidden?

Miss Lockhart

I know someone with an indoor pool in Clondalkin. It's a very nice house - not your average semi-D but not a mansion or anything.

kneemos

Devils own job to keep clean I'd imagine.Indoor pool might not be as bad though.

Banjo String

No OP I dont know anyone with a pool in Ireland in a normal house.

I'm sure they exist somewhere on the island, but I reckon they would be few and far between tbh.

The houses in spain, France etc would be more likely to have them as they have warmer climate than we have.

I lived in a bungalow in Broome in W.A for a year. It had a pool, and ill always miss the first thing in the morning swim. Never tired of that.

Legs.Eleven

theholyghost wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen a "normal" house with a swimming pool? Do you know anyone with their own pool?

Watching cycling in France and Spain on TV you see lots of gardens with pools some with little glass roofs. So are their private pools around Ireland but pmore hidden?

Apartment complexes here often have them where everyone shares it but a family who has a house and pool would be wealthy (Spain).

Archeron

I have a normal house and a swimming pool.
Well more accurately, my dog has a swimming pool.
It's one of those big orange plastic hippo shaped ones.
He loves it in summer, and in winter he likes eating the ice.

Lando Griffin

kneemos wrote: »

Devils own job to keep clean I'd imagine.Indoor pool might not be as bad though.

Bought one of them kiddies pools during the hot spell and at the end if the first day was full of grass and dead flys and bugs.
Had to empty it every night a pure pain in the butt as it took well over an hour to fill.

Banjo String

Meet your brother Lando. ^^^

Outkast_IRE

Yes, the main shareholder of a mechanical contracting company I used to work for had a large indoor heated swimming pool.

I had to work in his house a few times.
He didn't maintain it properly though and his entire family was spoiled and lazy, there were literally towels left damp and going mouldy around the pool, disgusting family, yet very wealthy.

Company went under about 3 years ago.

theholyghost

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Apartment complexes here often have them where everyone shares it but a family who has a house and pool would be wealthy (Spain).

I think less so in the country side you see normal looking houses in small towns with them.

Legs.Eleven

theholyghost wrote: »

I think less so in the country side you see normal looking houses in small towns with them.

True.

The Backwards Man

Here I am in my pool right now.

ComputerKing

The sister has one but she is in England. As for cleaning it they have a little robot thing that cleans it.

Legs.Eleven

ComputerKing wrote: »

The sister has one but she is in England. As for cleaning it they have a little robot thing that cleans it.

Is she minted?



I'd get one shaped like an erect willy. The penis part for doing laps and the testicles for faffing about.

Lando Griffin

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Is she minted?



I'd get one shaped like an erect willy. The penis part for doing laps and the testicles for faffing about.

Married into money Id say without knowing a thing about her.

Banjo String

ComputerKing wrote: »

The sister has one but she is in England. As for cleaning it they have a little robot thing that cleans it.

If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, that 'little robot thing' is some piece of technological wizardry.

(They're actually vacums)

ComputerKing

ComputerKing wrote: »

The sister has one but she is in England. As for cleaning it they have a little robot thing that cleans it.

Are you Hyacinth, Daisy or Rose?

OneArt

ComputerKing wrote: »

The sister has one but she is in England. As for cleaning it they have a little robot thing that cleans it.

Most people in South Africa have a pool. When I lived there, we called the robot thing the Creepy Crawly because it crawled around the edges of the pool as it sucked on the sides. I was f*cking terrified of it and wouldn't swim over it. This was after my dad told me it sometimes would go mad and try to suck up unsuspecting children.

Does anyone know what it's actually called? I've always known it as a creepy crawly.

The Backwards Man

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Is she minted?



I'd get one shaped like an erect willy. The penis part for doing laps and the testicles for faffing about.

Be incredibly boring doing laps on a penis shape I'd say, up and down, up and down, getting wet. Can't see the attraction meself.

Banjo String

OneArt wrote: »

Most people in South Africa have a pool. When I lived there, we called the robot thing the Creepy Crawly because it crawled around the edges of the pool as it sucked on the sides. I was f*cking terrified of it and wouldn't swim over it. This was after my dad told me it sometimes would go mad and try to suck up unsuspecting children.

Does anyone know what it's actually called? I've always known it as a creepy crawly.

Yes. They're called, very imaginatively...... automated pool cleaners.



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_pool_cleaner

BrokenArrows

I used to live in a house with a pool (not in Ireland) and they are a bitch to maintain.

If I was to ever have one in my house I would need to be rich enough to pay someone to look after it. A sexy pool girl would do!!

Lu Tze

OneArt wrote: »

Most people in South Africa have a pool. When I lived there, we called the robot thing the Creepy Crawly because it crawled around the edges of the pool as it sucked on the sides. I was f*cking terrified of it and wouldn't swim over it. This was after my dad told me it sometimes would go mad and try to suck up unsuspecting children.

Does anyone know what it's actually called? I've always known it as a creepy crawly.

I think its called a crawler, we had one in perth, those stories your dad told were true, it stopped the neighbours children from swimming in our pool

OneArt

Banjo String wrote: »

Yes. They're called, very imaginatively...... automated pool cleaners.



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_pool_cleaner

...I prefer creepy crawly.

anncoates

My wife's family had a slurry pit outside. Apart from the noxious fumes and smell, it was grand.

gabsdot40

We have American friends who lived in Ireland for a while a few years back and the house they rented had a pool in it. My husband stayed in their house in America recently and they have a pool with a 20foot tube slide thing a la, national aquatic centre.

onedmc

The Ma got a new puppy and she regularly has pools dotted around the house. And yes some of them are well hidden.

WoollyRedHat

No, too expensive.

I'd much prefer a jacuzzi anyway, that and a bit of vino, while listening to the latest Mozart offering.. delightful.

mfceiling

Worked in a house last year where the owner was building a huge pool with a jacuzzi and plunge pools............nice.

ComputerKing

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Married into money Id say without knowing a thing about her.

No both upper middle class when married but he worked hard and they had to move around a lot for work but finally settled.

languagenerd

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Apartment complexes here often have them where everyone shares it but a family who has a house and pool would be wealthy (Spain).

I think that very much depends on the Comunidad Autonoma you're in. I have family in Menorca (Illes Balears) and even the smallest houses on the island have pools if there's space. Obviously the townhouses with no gardens don't, but once you get outside the centre, almost every house has one.

Gyalist

I know a family in Palmerston Park who have an indoor pool in their house and another friend of mine grew up in a house on Landsdowne Road with an indoor pool.

oppenheimer1

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Are you Hyacinth, Daisy or Rose?

It was Violet that had the money, and room for a pony.

Fox_In_Socks

No, don't know anyone in Ireland with a pool and never saw one either.

I suppose a bath would be more the sort of scale we'd be used to. Jesus, you'd get lost in the bath in the late 80s. Great craic.:pac:

shuffles88

A family in the town I used to live in had one with a Jacuzzi and Steam Room. They opened it to the public and I think recouped the cost through admission prices and then closed it. I'm sure you couldn't get away with it today but it was nice while it lasted

Lando Griffin

ComputerKing wrote: »

No both upper middle class when married but he worked hard and they had to move around a lot for work but finally settled.

My apologies.
Just goes to show you that one should never judge someone without knowing them.
An admirable couple.

rustedtrumpet

I went to a party in Laois a few months ago with a indoor diving pool. Was about 12ft or more deep, except there was no water in it. And they had built a wooden stair case down into it and had equip it with a PA speaker system and a pair of decks. Fit about 50+ people. Sound was crystal clear aswell with the acoustics of a solid rectangular pit, piercing on the ears though after awhile. Great night

theholyghost

theholyghost wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen a "normal" house with a swimming pool? Do you know anyone with their own pool?

As a kind of pet DIY project some time ago I built an 8 person out door heated Jacuzzi. My target was to create it at less than half the cost it would have taken to have a professional team do it normally. In fact I got it done in less than 33%. Spent _ages_ on hobby sites and DIY sites coming up with ideas for it.

Step 1 of course was to put a load of shovels and a couple of crates of beer in the garden and inform my mates of the presence of both. The initial hole got dug with remarkable speed and efficiency. It went from there.

Its been used frequently now without eletrocuting or otherwise harming anyone so I am quite happy. I even built a speaker system around the outside of it which people can dock their MP3 players into. And useful drink holders. Wooden Gazebo over it providing shelter from any light weather too or heavy sun.

Quite proud of that project I am. The "opening night" party was one to remember. It is one of the three "big" DIY undertakings I have done to date.

Fizzlesque

theholyghost wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen a "normal" house with a swimming pool? Do you know anyone with their own pool?

Watching cycling in France and Spain on TV you see lots of gardens with pools some with little glass roofs. So are their private pools around Ireland but pmore hidden?

When I was a kid, my dad built a swimming pool in our back garden. It wasn't huge, but it was big enough to enjoy a swim in. All us kids helped build it - my sister and I were given the job of cleaning the stones for the foundation - and when it was done we got quite a few summers of fun out of it, inviting our friends over to swim, or floating on the water on a dinghy. One of my favourite childhood memories is reading Asterix and Obelix books while slowly drifting up, down and all around the pool.

Over time it was cleaned less and less, eventually turning to green sludge. Still OK for floating in a dinghy but not good for swimming. We weren't wealthy, but we had a large garden and a dad who was quirky enough to decide to build his kids a pool to play in. We had an odd upbringing - lots of ordinary everyday things were missing, there was no proper family structure, and sometimes no food to eat - but our house was interesting and unusual with fun things and quirky rooms. The pool was part of a medley of odd things we had.

Banjo String

While not an indoor pool per-say, I almost forgot about this DIY pool my neighbors constructed up home in the north during this year's hot spell.

One x Matbro
Few bales of straw
Few ratchet straps
Bit of rope
Some tarpaulin
Gallons of water.

Voila.

maryk123

One of my neighbours has a swimming pool in what I call the playroom/garage. It's weird to see but looks ok and they use it often enough.

Witchie

I know of 2 people in my town who have indoor pools. We always pestered dad to build us one and he promised to but never carried through on it. He bought a house in Florida with a pool though so that has to do us.

Their current house at home should have a pool coz it has everything else!

anncoates

Witchie wrote: »

I know of 2 people in my town who have indoor pools. We always pestered dad to build us one and he promised to but never carried through on it. He bought a house in Florida with a pool though so that has to do us. !

Taking a transatlantic flight to have your dip of a morning isn't ideal, is it?

Witchie

No, but hope to move there for a few months in the new year so will enjoy it then!

superelliptic

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Is she minted?



I'd get one shaped like an erect willy. The penis part for doing laps and the testicles for faffing about.

You mean fapping about, surely :pac:

Sleepy

As soon as I win the Lotto there'll be one more, it's my absolute dream.

mattjack

Deleted User wrote: »

As a kind of pet DIY project some time ago I built an 8 person out door heated Jacuzzi. My target was to create it at less than half the cost it would have taken to have a professional team do it normally. In fact I got it done in less than 33%. Spent _ages_ on hobby sites and DIY sites coming up with ideas for it.

Step 1 of course was to put a load of shovels and a couple of crates of beer in the garden and inform my mates of the presence of both. The initial hole got dug with remarkable speed and efficiency. It went from there.

Its been used frequently now without eletrocuting or otherwise harming anyone so I am quite happy. I even built a speaker system around the outside of it which people can dock their MP3 players into. And useful drink holders. Wooden Gazebo over it providing shelter from any light weather too or heavy sun.

Quite proud of that project I am. The "opening night" party was one to remember. It is one of the three "big" DIY undertakings I have done to date.

I'm waiting on tenter hooks here , was there a step two ?

A drinking aquaintance of mine bought a house with an outside unheated pool in Dublin years ago , no I don't why either .

Any way normally he is a placid laid back person , however he was in the pub one night miserable as hell and upset , one of his German Shepherd pups had drowned in the pool .He said he was going to get it drained and filled in ASAP.

That night he was woken by his German Shepherd barkin' her hole off and as he got down the stairs and out his back door, three members of a certain community here ran from his sheds.Two went out the front , the other one ran across his back garden and ran into the pool while being chased by his GSD , him and mr Baseball bat.All this on a Febuary night.

He still has the pool and little fence round it now.

Banjo String

mattjack wrote: »

I'm waiting on tenter hooks here , was there a step two ?

A drinking aquaintance of mine bought a house with an outside unheated pool in Dublin years ago , no I don't why either .

Any way normally he is a placid laid back person , however he was in the pub one night miserable as hell and upset , one of his German Shepherd pups had drowned in the pool .He said he was going to get it drained and filled in ASAP.

That night he was woken by his German Shepherd barkin' her hole off and as he got down the stairs and out his back door, three members of a certain community here ran from his sheds.Two went out the front , the other one ran across his back garden and ran into the pool while being chased by his GSD , him and mr Baseball bat.All this on a Febuary night.

He still has the pool and little fence round it now.

He must be really minted. Where did he get a dog that could be trained to bark out of its arse?

mattjack

Banjo String wrote: »

He must be really minted. Where did he get a dog that could be trained to bark out of its arse?

I tip my hat to you , sir , I tip my hat.

mattjack

mattjack wrote: »

I'm waiting on tenter hooks here , was there a step two ?

Step 2? It mostly involved everything else once the hole was dug . Wiring - structure - speaker installation - that kind of thing. I was just too lazy to do the first part myself when a couple of shovels and a few beers was enough to have it done for me.

Rocket19

My parents recently bought a house that has a large indoor pool.

It hasn't been in use for many years, and they are half thinking of filling it in (much to my dismay!). It would have to be restored (along with much of the house, which is quite old-fashioned), which would be very costly, and the maintenance costs are just sick.

House was previously owned and built by an American; hence, the pool and overall american style of the house.

I don't think indoor pools are as rare in Ireland as people are intimating, though? I know a handful of people who have them.

Honey-ec

Yep, a childhood friend of mine had a 10 metre pool. It was in the back garden, but covered and heated, and they had a sauna aswell. This was in a very normal 3-bed semi-d in Templeogue.

My parents very nearly bought a house with an indoor pool in it when I was about 14, but eventually decided not to as the house itself needed a lot of modernisation and they just didn't fancy taking on a "project" property. It took me about ten years to forgive them. Again, it wasn't a mansion on anything near it - just a detatched house on Kimmage Road West in Dublin that happened to have had the garage converted into a poolhouse.

They still live around the corner and every time I pass that house, I give a little "if only" sigh.