However, certain mistaken beliefs have also longarisen about what it means to have a private swimming pool of one’sown. So, as a leading specialist in swimmingpool supplies here at Pool Warehouse, we thought we’d takea closer look at some of those myths.
Home pools are only for people with biggardens
This myth is an understandable one. After all,many people’s fantasies about having their own pool at home arefirst activated by photos they might have seen in magazines or on theInternet of celebrities enjoying a dip in an especially large privatepool.
But in the real world, you hardly need to own apalace in order to find room for a home swimming pool. Even thesmallest of Plastica’spremium wooden pools that can be purchased from PoolWarehouse – the ExercisePool – measures a mere 2.4 metres by 3.9 metres. That’ssufficiently modestly proportioned for a small garden, but still bigenough to allow genuine swimming.
Home pools use a huge amount of water
As self-evident as this may seem, it’s notnecessarily as true as you might think. As long as you maintain yourown pool well with the help of specialised swimming pool supplieslike those in our store, you don’t actually need to empty andrefill your pool every year. It’s also worth bearing in mind thatrainwater will serve as a natural (and free!) top-up of your poolwater.
You’ll spend too much time maintainingit for it to be worth the bother
This is the kind of phrase you might have heardfrom an uninformed friend or neighbour of yours on mentioning thatyou were considering buying a home swimming pool. But again, whileresponsible swimming pool maintenance is hugely important,suggestions that this aspect of pool ownership is an insurmountablehassle are often exaggerated.
A lot of maintenance woes that home pool owners dosuffer from can be attributed to poor decisions made when theywere first investing in the pool – not purchasing the mostsuitable filtration system for it, for instance. But if youdo make the right decisions from an early stage, you shouldn’t findyourself spending more than half an hour weekly maintaining your homepool.
A home pool isn’t exactly theeco-friendly option
Here’s yet another statement that frequentlyoverlooks the very particular circumstances that apply to each andevery pool. Previous analysis has suggested that the use of a homeswimming pool – including the electricity and other products likechemicalsneeded to make this possible – accounts for only a very smallfraction of a household’s typical average CO2 emissions.
And of course, if you have your own swimming poolat home, you probably won’t be making as many journeys to localpublic indoor pools or lidos. That has to be accounted for in anyconsideration of a home pool’s environmental impact.
It’s very expensive to buy and maintainyour own pool
This is another broad perception that isn’talways borne out in reality. Indeed, you only need to browse therangeof pools and related supplies here at Pool Warehouse forevidence of how relatively affordable purchasing and operating yourown home pool can be.
The exact cost of a home swimming pool for youwill naturally partly hinge on such factors as the size of your pool,and whether or not you heat it. Regardless, though, you should onlyfind yourself spending the equivalent of a few pounds a day on a homepool during the period of the year you’ll be using it. This isbroadly similar to how much you might be spending on visits to yourlocal swimming pool right now.
Owning and maintaining your own swimming pool athome can be a hugely rewarding experience – but of course, it alsocomes with significant costs and challenges. So, it’s crucial thatyou are as informed as possible when making decisions on poolownership – including not only the acquisition of the pool, butalso your subsequent spending on essential supplies.
Swimming pool supplies of all kinds are ourspecialty here at Pool Warehouse, with heavy discounts oftenapplied on Recommended Retail Prices (RRPs). This allows you tosafely treat us as your complete go-to online pool megastore.
