Pool In A House?

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

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 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.

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.

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:

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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 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.

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.

My best friend grew up in a house with a pool. It was indoor, amazing, had little cabin changing rooms, the works. She had a pool party for her 16th, it was the coolest thing ever. Then they had to sell it and move to a 3 bed semi d with a handkerchief sized garden. Sigh.

You see a lot of them up on the big wheel in Funderland, in the backs of the big houses in Dublin 4. I think an outdoor poor just wouldn't be worth the hassle in this country, it's indoor or nothing for me (so nothing, then).

My girlfriends grandparents have an outdoor swimming pool at their house! Half of it is fully outdoors and half goes in under an outdoor dining area/ bar so it's covered! It's quite nice 😊
I've no idea if they actually use it though!

Honey-ec wrote: »

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.

Haha janey small world. We use to drink cans in that pool (boarded over, small crawlspace with candles) in that house. Not even ****tin' ye

I've a pool out the back but rarely use it. Used it a good bit last year but probably got in it about 3 times this year.

Still gets cleaned every Monday though