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[Closed] Things to do with an old swimming pool?

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Ice hockey rink. 😉


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 12:42 pm
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Any pics OP?

Will have some later, when we've had a look around.


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 12:47 pm
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My parents have just de commissioned their pool as a pipe cracked under the concrete after 30years. They have turned the deep end into a sunken garden and have put a hot tub in the shallow end. It looks amazing. I'm going there after work and will take some pics.


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 12:50 pm
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Reed bed sewage filtration system.


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 12:56 pm
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I don't think Binners is taking this very seriously!

I don't know, I think that the ball pit is a great idea!


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 12:58 pm
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Ooh, like the hot tub idea, pics would be great..


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 1:04 pm
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Some kind of pit to keep wild beasts?


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 1:11 pm
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Some kind of pit to keep wild beasts?

The kids will have their own bedrooms 🙂


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 1:22 pm
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so trying to think of ideas to appease the wife

With a hole that big already dug you have no need to placate anyone ever again!


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 1:28 pm
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Don't fill it in, just build some nice decking over the top.

Failing that: Ball pit or fish tank.


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 1:33 pm
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Sunken bouldering wall with the walls coming 3ft above ground to form a railing around the pit.


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 1:58 pm
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My ball pool idea was a serious suggestion. But how about adding in...

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Posted : 11/07/2017 2:22 pm
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Advertise on Freebay - Swimming Pool - free to collect 😉


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 2:35 pm
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Isn't this where the sharks with lasers are kept? Extra point for having a lift above the pool with 'drop out' floor as convenient disposal point for operatives who have failed you

(i'm assuming that Failure is not tolerated in your organisation"..... 😉


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 8:24 pm
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Snake pit, skate bowl or comedy ACME style fake garden leading to a snake pit


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 11:28 pm
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Side business running an abattoir?


 
Posted : 11/07/2017 11:41 pm
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If it's fit for use you could easily put a poly tunnel over it till such time as you could afford a more permanent solution.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 2:23 am
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Build a shed with a [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof ]green roof[/url] on a hydraulic platform within the pool. Press a button, your shed rises up out of the ground. Press again, it sinks down to leave a nice [url=

or something in its place.

Great security for the shed too, if the scrotes can't even find it 8)


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 4:36 am
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Definitely a skate bowl


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 6:15 am
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Mechanical pit? For tanks!

Mass grave? Apologies Bad taste


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 6:44 am
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Mass grave? Apologies Bad taste

Well, the house does have a large cellar. If you've got somewhere to hide the bodies it's the perfect fritzl palace


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 7:08 am
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I'd turn it into a massive reptile enclosure - replicate a bit of the jungle in the comfort of your own garden.

Get a reticulated python and some massive tropical trees and build a big glass house around it.

But then I'm very much into reptile keeping so ymmv.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 7:17 am
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Italian Sunken Garden.

Gives you somewhere to bury dogs, tortoises and Percy Thrower.

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Posted : 12/07/2017 8:24 am
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Always preferred the idea of a swimming pond, to a pool.

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Posted : 12/07/2017 8:46 am
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use it as somewhere to keep your old fridges and supermarket trollies.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:06 am
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Use it as a baking tray and make a massive cheesecake.

Cherry or blackcurrant.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:16 am
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Deck it over with an inset trampoline


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:19 am
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Turns out the house is an absolute wreck and needs £100+k spending so it's not going to be a goer 🙁


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 10:41 am
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In that case the pool would make a great skip.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 10:44 am
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Always preferred the idea of a swimming pond, to a pool.

This. You can still swim in it on warm days, it's good for ecology, and costs less to maintain.


 
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Rightmove link Stevied?


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 10:47 am
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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/67573661

The photos are 2 years old and there's been some 'work' done since.
(By work I mean making a mess)


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 11:30 am
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The empty swimming pool alone would cost you that round here! 🙂


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 4:10 pm
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from google earth looks like the pool virtually fills the entire garden?

It looked damp even in those pics and if it's been empty since...


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 4:14 pm
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Fill it with dead wives and whack a patio over the top.

Probably pay for the house if you're charging £3,000 per corpse.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 4:32 pm
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Even with £100K to spend that would be massively cheap around here.

That's a big lump of house for not a lot a grass once you take into account the gimp cage/bouldering pit/skate half pipe/hash den. If not a swimming pool alternative uses would have taken quite a bit of negotiation with the your more sensible half.


 
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GlennQuagmire wins today's internet.


 
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