House & Home It's warming up...show off your pool!

That photo was taken this morning when the sun was low, so the water does not look very nice.
It's Burraneer Bay, part of Port Hacking.

 

Looks like a great lifestyle.
The only downfall could be the noise from neighbours/community if you like quiet times.

 

@Rixter I hope you make good use of that Italian style woodfire pizza oven....I hate seeing those things not being used. They are expensive to build but you can't beat that genuine Italian pizza taste. Mama Mia!!!

 

My 10m x 5m pool. 60000Litres. absolutely hated it because of all the trees surrounding the pool. That is a problem when living in too leafy suburb.

 

LOL!!

First world prob thread for this one!!

 

For those of you who have a pool, how much maintenance is involved? Do you have to regularly tweak the chlorine, pumps and other elements? How hands off is it?
I guess regular cleaning is essential - how often are we talking about?
Anyone tried going away for a month? How was the pool when you came back?

Curious about this stuff. We are considering a move interstate and pools are pretty common over there, so just wondering what we would be signing up for if we had one!

Cheers

 

This is my pool. Not huge but it does the job. Relaxing under the little waterfall.

I am thinking about putting some of the Balinese grass (thatch) over the blue beam across the pool.

 

Pretty easy to look after. The pumps are on timers and you just get the chlorine container thing that floats in the pool. If it is dirty when you get back which it shouldn't be that bad then you just put a bit more chlorine in and it will be normal in 2 days.

We have a salt water pool which still uses chlorine to.

 

Our pool was salt chlorinated, solar heating with in-floor cleaning as well. We had virtually no trees near our property to fill it with leaves, so the cleaning was virtually non-existent.

The salt water chlorinator was on a self-adjusting computer, so regulated the chlorine production and acid mix automatically to a large degree.

The whole thing was programmable; filter times, floor cleaning times, temperature for solar etc.

You still have to take water samples and add more salt, replace the acid bottle from time to time, add other things such as buffer etc..

But, I used to take my water sample to the local pool place for analysis every month or so, and he told me what it needed and I did that.

Very easy maintenance for us.

 

This does the job for us.

 

This is the way to do it.
Even though our "pool" is tiny, I could not do it manually, maintenance is not my thing.
We've had an auto salt water chlorinator / acid doser for about 1 month now and it's money well spent.

 

QUICK....THERE'S A BLOODY GREAT BIG BLUE BOTTLE JELLY FISH IN THE POOL!!!

 

Hahaha. I'd be happier if that waterway didn't have bull sharks in it. Then I wouldn't need a pool at all.

 

Pic lifted from RPData files from a few years ago now (as I haven't got any recent ones!) our pool is mainly in full sun so we can get away without heating. Well used in Summer by my large family and friends it's been a worthwhile lifestyle choice and, even if I don't swim as much as I used to, I must say I do enjoy having a water view in the yard....

 

Hey Brian this reminded me of the pool from our last house- we planted along the fenceline and it certainly softened it- have included a pic below so you can see what I mean. Our kids loved the waterfall

 

Yeah, you could call it that. The roof line of my house is like a square doughnut and the pool is in the middle so not covered but still private - unless you're flying overheard.....

 

Yes that's pretty similar. Good fun and my son loves it.

 

We have lived here for nearly 11 years now. It is not a predominately family type resort. (mostly 1bed units ) Not often we have really noisy kids. The pool hours are only 8:00 am till 8:00pm, but we find most of the time the Mums tend to pull the ,ids out of the pool around 5-5:30 to have a bath and get ready for dinner.