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Pool In A House?

  • 16-09-2013 07:39PM
    #1
    theholyghost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,454 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


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


  • #4
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭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).


  • #6
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,651 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Meet your brother Lando. ^^^


  • #9
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,511 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    theholyghost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭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.


  • #11
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


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

    True.


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Here I am in my pool right now.


  • #13
    ComputerKing
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 770 ✭✭✭ComputerKing


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


  • #14
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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)


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?


  • #18
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #21
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭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!!


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  • #22
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,523 ✭✭✭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


  • #23
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


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


  • #25
    gabsdot40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭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.


  • #26
    onedmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭onedmc


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


  • #27
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,035 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


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


  • #29
    ComputerKing
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 770 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭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.


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