Things to do with an old swimming pool?

We acquired a 24ft pool with our current place. Fortunately its in a building so its usable for more than the week or so in the year its warm enough in this country to swim outdoors without a wet suit. Apart from a new pump (£400) it hasn’t cost that much to run as we only use it April-Sep and only heat the water and not the building. Its easy enough to maintain the water chemistry. Our pool is lined however and I’m looking at a £4k bill to replace the liner in 5-6 years. Hopefully we’ll have moved out before then.

With pools its very much a case of use it or lose it. If you don’t keep them maintained then they will just turn into an algae infested swamp. If you empty them then the liner (even a concrete liner) will float out of the ground if you have a low water table.

If the OPs pool needs all the plant replaced and is an outdoor pool I’d pay to have it filled in. If its an indoor pool its probably worth rescuing.

wall separating the 2 made of glass so it’s like a human aquarium in the summer.

YES!

Not a cheap option though, and you’ve got half a swimming pool.

Swim up bar. Just putting it out there.

Any pics OP?

For me refurb unless its impossible.

If your kids are young consider having it start off as a sort of sunken paddling pool then add a little water each year as they grow.

Or this

Canabis farm 8)

Ice hockey rink. 😉

Any pics OP?

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

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.

Reed bed sewage filtration system.

Rockape63 – Member
I don’t think Binners is taking this very seriously!

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

Ooh, like the hot tub idea, pics would be great..

Some kind of pit to keep wild beasts?

Some kind of pit to keep wild beasts?

The kids will have their own bedrooms 🙂

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!

Don’t fill it in, just build some nice decking over the top.

Failing that: Ball pit or fish tank.

Sunken bouldering wall with the walls coming 3ft above ground to form a railing around the pit.

My ball pool idea was a serious suggestion. But how about adding in…

Advertise on Freebay – Swimming Pool – free to collect 😉

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”….. 😉

Snake pit, skate bowl or comedy ACME style fake garden leading to a snake pit

Side business running an abattoir?

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.

Build a shed with a green roof 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 shrubbery or something in its place.

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

Definitely a skate bowl

Mechanical pit? For tanks!

Mass grave? Apologies Bad taste

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

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.

Italian Sunken Garden.

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

Always preferred the idea of a swimming pond, to a pool.

use it as somewhere to keep your old fridges and supermarket trollies.

Use it as a baking tray and make a massive cheesecake.

Cherry or blackcurrant.

Deck it over with an inset trampoline

Turns out the house is an absolute wreck and needs £100+k spending so it’s not going to be a goer 🙁

In that case the pool would make a great skip.

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.

Rightmove link Stevied?

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)

The empty swimming pool alone would cost you that round here! 🙂

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…