Should you buy a shipping container pool?
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
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Swimming pools have become a suburban status symbol. Not only are they glamorized in movies and tv shows, but youtube channels such as Architectural Digest showcase envy inducing swimming pools in the backyards of celebrities signifying luxury, leisure and glamor. To the rest of us, they are a symbol of prosperity and an escape from the daily grid.
But behind all the glamor, pool construction is actually very disruptive, it’s a laborious undertaking, and is pretty expensive. So when shipping container pools come along promising an all in one solution, where a box holding a pool and all the pool equipment can be simply delivered to your site, connected to your water supply and set up in just one day, it seems like a very appealing alternative. This shipping container pool company based in Australia repurposes both 20’ and 40’ containers. The containers are cut in half, reinforced with steel. The heater, pool pump, sand filter and salt chlorinator are tucked away on one side of the container. Steps lead up to a landing, allowing easy access into the swimming pool. The inside of the pool is made of a molded fiberglass shell which is smooth and nonporous. You can customize your shipping container pool on their website by choosing three different fiberglass shell colors and six different outside polyurethane paint colors. You can choose a standard chlorine pool, a salt pool or a mineral pool. They also say that if you are moving houses, their pools are fully portable.
The biggest advantage of a shipping container pool is the ease of installation. It’s a complete product, ready to be used. It’s not as disruptive as traditional pool construction, You don’t have to excavate earth and build retaining walls which can be very tricky when you’re on a sloped site. If, for some reason, you wanted to transfer your pool to another location, you could rent a crane and put it on a trailer to a new site.
But let’s look at all the disadvantages of it. First off, the reinforcement. The walls of the container are made of 3/16” sheet metal which cannot withstand the outward and downward force of water. Also, when these containers are cut in half, the corrugated walls are going to flex because they aren’t tied to the structural frame any more, so the top rim of the container has to be reinforced.
Waterproofing is another issue. Shipping containers are designed to keep water out, not to hold water inside. To make it waterproof, you can use a fiberglass insert like we saw earlier, or the container can go through an expensive conversion process where another layer of steel is welded to the corrugated walls. A pvc liner or a cement plaster lining is applied to the new steel walls. This extra layer also adds a considerable amount of weight to the pool so the foundation slab that it sits on has to be designed accordingly.
Next up, insulation. As we saw in the earlier video, there is no additional insulation around the fiberglass insert. If your shipping container pool is temperature controlled, it’s going to lose a lot of heat through the side walls. The earth surrounding inground pools provides more insulation than people realize and without it, the perfect water temperature can be difficult and expensive to maintain. Shipping container pools are best used over ground because steel can corrode underground. If you choose to place these pools underground, you have to pour retaining walls and a slab to keep the earth from pushing the flimsy corrugated steel walls in. At that point, you might as well have a typical inground pool.
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Probably the best use for shipping containers is to ship goods with them...
what an amazing idea. how haven't a thought of that before?
That's literally the whole point of a shipping container pool. It allows a pool to be shipped easily.
No it's not the best pool but it is the easiest to transport. Because containers are designed to be transported.
couldn't have guessed in a million years
@@mabamabam Yes but realistically how often is that going to happen? once every 10 years? is it worth having a shitty designed pool just so its slightly easier to transport when you move? let alone the kind of people who have houses with pools would be looking to buy a house that already has a pool...
@@NoMoreLles once between the container manufacturer and the pool factory a second time between the factory and the shop. A third time between the shop and the customer. Probably never between houses.
Realistically how often do you move your bath tub? Yet it still comes in a container.
anybody: "i have this GREAT idea that uses shipping contai-"
Belinda: "No; because..."
Unless it’s in that one video
Lol … right!!
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
She is the kind of teacher you would want in a school or college.
In the current education system, teachers don't have time to carefully research a topic and prepare and update audiovisuals for an audience of maybe a few hundred every year.
We need to scale this up, and move the education main to online. This frees up many teachers to assist with questions, clarifications, and homework.
@@dewaard3301 in addition, some teachers are swamped with paperworks they aren't supposed to do. Quite lamentable.
So true
She's just another talking head on RUclips. They are a dime a dozen.
@@KieranMullen we can see your salty comments on her channel bro. You a shipping container salesman or sumthin?
I like how she crushes people's dreams with reality, she's my hero
It maight seems like that, if you put your dreams in ignorance. What she says are simply the possible issues with a fixed context. Not that they are imposible or irracional to use in every case scenario.
If you do a lot of the work yourself any pool can be way cheaper. I have access so all heavy equipment so for me it would be a weekend job to dig and poor concrete and I can do the framing myself and the concrete so that saves thousands.
Lol. I said the same while listening to this video 😂
I am one of those people.
@ You must be fun at parties.
@@sleddy01
Thanks. I am, actually :D
I’ve worked in the swimming pool industry for 20+ years. This is a great, quick, well explained video.
Agreed
In less than 8 minutes
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
I really love your no-nonsense approach. You explain the pros and the cons, state your opinion, prompt us for our own opinion and dip. No stretched-out, bloated intros or click-baity titles. I'm learning a lot from your channel and really appreciate your contributions to RUclips. You're awesome!
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
There's nothing that a steel shipping container loves more than chlorinated water...
They're well protected...on the outside
why? does it give it a nice patina like weathered copper?
@@regularperson9965 a little more than that i think
Alot of above ground pools are made with steel roll walls
@@slackin_2423 all above ground pools made with steel roll walls have a plastic liner used to protect the supporting structure from the chlorinated water.
Chlorine heavy water (especially during shocks) will rapidly deteriorate the surface of steel (compared to pure water). The liner is absolutely necessary
That's two shipping container uses she's destroyed. I want more MORE - crush our hopes and dreams
Why are your hopes and dreams to reuse an industrial piece of equipment? They should simply be recycled and almost all energy used to make the steel is recovered. Trying to take a specific use industrial material to "repurpose it" is silly. Recycle and build proper items with proper materials.
This shipping container repurposing reminds me of the pallet furniture I wanted to make a few years ago. After researching I realized the risk of chemicals and bugs in old pallets meant I'd need to buy new ones. Buying new ones meant I might as well pay for a professionally made couch and bed.
The only thing shipping container is good for is shipping goods in it because it is designed for that, everything else is just pushing it.
🤣😅🤣👍
For real tho, I need an endless pool in my life. I didn't know it exited 10 minutes ago but now I know I need one
I love when people use shipping containers for other projects, like homes, and do so much chopping and adding, there is nothing “shipping container” about them anymore.
Agreed. Wood and bricks for me.
Yeah literally! It often takes almost as much work and cost as normal pools, and doesn't even look/function as well! Just get a normal pool or don't buy one at all.
@@ooneybird27 yeah that’s it. They do it because it’s “trendy”. By most of the time there is nothing shipping-container about the home.
Exactly just build a house and put corrugated metal on the sides
@@cookingwithkimbap4432 You can but an above ground 20ft pool for around 1000. It's literally a 1600% mark up just because of the "shipping container aesthetic"
Shipping containers: exist
Belinda: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*
Other than the man whose career is, you know, shopping things.
Oh no. Not another career comment.
More like: I'm about to end their whole dream of second career.
I used to harbor a fantasy of owning an endless pool for doing fitness as you said here. The price was always a show stopper. Then I got to use one at my public gym. It was a disappointment, because I could easily overpower the current and swim right into the wall. I think that one was more for the underwater treadmill use. But the cost.. for $80 a month, I get 3 lap pools, a locker room and free clean towel service. I can do that for 16 years before an Endless pool is cheaper., if you don't charge for the water and heater.
@@punpun3257 We actually have a lot of good pools in Virginia. The higher end ones with 50 meter laps are just not always open to the public. But yes, I got some outdoor laps today at my regular public club.
Great way to look at it. Why spend so much and have to worry about moving or maintenance
@@punpun3257 Any large city is going to have a gym with that stuff. You don't have to be in a nice place for it.
@@punpun3257 It really isn't. I live in the cheaper side of Portland and all the gyms here have it. A lot of east Portland was even considered Felony flats for a long time. It's far from rich.
@@punpun3257 Yes but that's not equal. Most people in the US are not living rich and tons are living in poverty. I did for most my life until recently.
One thing that people don't think about is the lifespan of the pool and what to do at the end of the economic life of the pool. I do a lot of swimming pool demolitions. I get two or three calls a week from people who want to get rid of their pools. It's sometimes more expensive to fix an old pool than to demolish it. It's not an asset.
but in a hot summer it is indeed an asset when you want to cool off plus helps cut down on acne when a teenager.
@It's Because not as fun plus swimming is great exercise.
@@toomanyaccounts acne is not a sickness, it's the body ejecting toxins from the body. It's better to sort the cause rather than treat the symptoms.
@@1960ARC clogged pores. chlorine water helps to prevent that thereby reducing acne
People also get rid of pools when they have children.
As cool as the houses and pools look, shipping containers are really good at what they were made for.
Yes growing marijuana lol 😂
Not really, I haul containers out of the port for a living.
They need much better paint and the floors are questionable 🤷♂️
@@jes1375 noted!
@Salvadore Orozco Actually she’s explained those aren’t such a great idea either lol
@Salvadore Orozco No. They don't make good houses at all. Basically, if you're going to use one for a shell of a house, you have to actually go ahead and build an entire house inside the thing, complete with framing and walls and everything.
I'm going to stick with going to my local public pool. It is half indoor, half outdoor so it can be sealed off for warmth in winter, and left open in the summer. If I get there 1 hr before it closes I get a lane to myself, and the pool is surrounded by bushland so we get kookaburras and magpies. It is so beautiful and peaceful, there is nothing like swimming in peace and quiet while the birds go about their business as the sun sets and dusk falls.
Is public pool are free?
@@anonamemous6865 My local swimming pool has a $7 student entry. I also live a 15 minute drive from the beach so when it is warm enough, I go there instead.
@@loftyradish6972 in j. U jb njmn n bj no I. N kuj no
The best pools are your neighbors pool - Lots of fun & very low maintenance.
None of my neighbours own pools. Also, I don’t know any of my neighbours lol.
You're channel greatly reminds me of the cooking channel "How To Cook That" with Ann Reardon who is also great at debunking these viral cooking videos, mostly from Tasty. Keep up the good work!
She's an amazing person. Although I sometimes feel bad for what she puts Dave through.
She really does here research. It’s rare to really learn so much on RUclips. Thank you
Not really,
Those disadvantages she si talking about are easy to fix, there are cheap treatments against corrosion, the cracks int the fiver glass occur in other type of structures, and about the waterproofing, you have good waterproofing solutions that work well with metal, companies like ARDEX, Fester etc. I’m an architect and structural engineer and worked many years building large swimming pools for hotels and as a consultant.
Nope because she didn’t truly research
Ive lowered my expectations to a 10' diameter Bestway Pool. Its good for cooling off in the summer. Box it up until next season.
I've never considered a shipping container pool (or home) but gosh that does not stop me from being fascinated with these kinds of videos! Some comments said dream crusher but really, you're doing a great thing to tell people about the realities of things like this!
Fascination is free, owning a pool is not.
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
*Fiberglass* pools are, by far, the most efficient and economical in the long run. Plus you're not stuck exclusively with the shipping-container dimensions.
Pretty much dig a hole. Set the pool into place and fill the area between the shell and the edges of the hole...
@@hanro50 the steel will corrode
@@sinatraforeign fibreglass? Not steel
@@hanro50 That's the Inside, not the outside. it's called shipping container swimming pool bruh
@@sinatraforeign I'm talking about... traditional fibreglass pools.
You can get them as shells and basically use dirt with some reinforcement as the box...
Yours is one of THE MOST RELEVANT channels on RUclips. I GREATLY appreciate your insight.
Please keep us the great work!
Thank you for the explanation! Best video on shipping container pools I’ve found so far!
Never thought about a shipping container pool but your video was extremely interesting none the less. 👍🏿
Hi Belinda, great job in explaining the options. I will keep in mind this video when wanting to install a pool in my small yard. Thank you
The quality of your video and amount of research you put in is amazing! Your channel will grow big very soon.
Practicality and maintenance is everything in life. Thank you for your wisdom.
Second video I've seen, both about shipping containers. Love your work so far so definitely subbing
This is great content. It cleared my mind on having it above the ground if I choose to have a container pool. You can always build a deck around anyway :)
Shipping containers became a fad, or a buzz word. They are absolutely great to buy as a shed, or.... storage container... but twisting them into houses or pools is just swimming upstream.
Same with the Euro-pallets, it's getting annoying, really
Thank you.
At first I thought I was listening to a commercial. But you do give a real pro and con presentation.
Yes, half way through I was thinking this is just an advertisement, but it recovered well
nah, all these engineering problems aside, it just looks like an accident waiting to happen with those steps leading up to the pool that's above ground with no railings.
I didn't even knew about this alternatives! Thank you very much for sharing the info!
Thanks, Walter!
Thanks, very informative. Love the pros and cons. I love your accent!
May the RUclips algorithm gods favour your channel.
It did. Reached me all the way in Africa 🤷🏾♀️
she is also a great telecom scammer on the phone from hindustan. lmao
Well done👍🏽
She's so freaking awesome !
as soon as you approach about 500 commentaries, the video will be recommended to more viewers by their waiting line.
I was just telling my son about shipping container pools and wanted to find a video to help him see what I was talking about. Your video is excellent because it compares a shipping container pool to other kinds of pools with pros and cons, which is super helpful. Thank you!
Honestly watch another one
Ms Carr provides cogent and effective arguments pro and con for shipping container use outside of the original intended use for such items.
Thanks, Michael!
@@BelindaCarr new fan :)
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@@BelindaCarr o9
Why does RUclips only show me your channel when you’re talking about shipping containers.. I subscribed and put the notifications on. Keep up the good work
Thanks a lot, Brent! I haven't figured out the RUclips algorithm yet.
Brent Pack same here! Ever since I watched her shipping container videos last year or early this year sometime, I keep getting notifications of her show when it’s regarding a shipping container.
@@BelindaCarr neither has youtube
You've got a gift for analyzing and presenting complex concepts. Clearly very intelligent too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
You always put back realistic into the mirage. This is why i love your content Ms Belinda!
Thank you!
So happy to have found your channel!! Great analysis of different products and technologies...thanks for all your efforts.
Quality Video. I subscribed!
You seem educated and articulate!
I'm a fan!
I found your channel while doing some research on shipping container cabins (only because I have two 20ft containers that I used for material/parts storage and trying to decide what to do with them when I am done). Like all web searches, I got off on a tangent and saw your piece on shipping container pools. Very thoughtful and informative opinion on the subject.
You literally changed my mind on container pools! Lol solid video!
Ms. Carr, this is the second video I’ve watched from you.
Absolutely helpful and informative. I’ve recently bought a new home and am moving to Florida.
I’ve been looking at types of pools and spas and even container pool.
I’ve pretty much set my mind on a sports pool/spa. Your input has confirmed my thoughts on a spa pool and it’s advantages.
Again a very well explained, straight to the point presentation.
Be well and stay healthy.
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
Brilliant review, brought me back to earth with a bump I probably needed
Wasn’t planning on having a shipping container pool but is such a great video that I couldn’t stop watching it.
Excellent. You do not waste time. Straight to the point. Concise and relevant,
Again, I agree with you 100% on this new use of shipping containers. If your handy and would like a pool, it makes a nice project to build yourself. I built my first 16’x32’ pool myself using a concrete slab, and I then framed up 48” walls from PT 2”x6” at 16” O. C. THEN I just sheathed the inside with marine grade PT 5/8” plywood covered with 1/4” rolled poly foam ( available in 48” x 50’ rolls) spray 3M ADHESIVE on the plywood and press on your rolled foam. Do all your PVC plumbing on the outside and back fill the pool perimeter with soil and use diagonal
2” x 6” PT BRACES EVERY 48”.
Buy a standard 16’ x32’ vinyl liner and set up a shop vac on the skimmer side. Fill slowly and press out all the wrinkles. Then double up the vinyl at the top plates of your wall and top with Cedar or Redwood. You can build a walkway on top of your walls edge like a small perimeter deck right on grade.
Buy a filter system and you have a nice pool for under 7500.00 in today’s money. My first pool was built 35 years ago using the process described. I sold that house 20 years ago and the present owners still enjoy that pool today. It will last a lifetime if maintained well. Sorry for the book,
I thought you might be interested in an alternative way of building a pool. ✌🏻🇺🇸
deleted old dumb comment so that I could say this instead: Thank you for the description and assessment of your pool construction!
@@hamyncheese
I saw your first comment and I just wanted to let you know that the pool I built was drawn out on plans for the Building inspector and a permit was filed for the construction. Plumbing, Electrical and construction Permits were pulled and all necessary inspections were done. It all passed the Code requirements with ease. It was overbuilt and 10 times stronger than any typical galvanized metal panels typically used on Inground pools. The concrete slab was poured over 48” footings with 4’x8’ metal reinforced mats. The slab could have been used to build a house on as they were dug in a 48” grid pattern. The best part was the concrete pour was done in a single pour. As the forms were filled it also filled the footings, making it a monolithic pad 8” thick.
This is why it’s still in use to this day. The liner has been replaced recently I was told but it otherwise is rock solid.
A 16’ x 32’ in ground pool can be built BETTER and stronger for LESS!!
Thanks for the second comment. Now you know😃✌🏻🇺🇸✌🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@Waveluth Indeed! Thanks for all the info!
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
Appreciate the informative video, as always. Already knew I don't want the care and feeding of a pool or hot tub of any kind, but now I know I really don't want a shipping container pool! Was going to tease you about a general dislike for shipping container...anythings, but I see your "Top 5 Shipping Container Conversions" video on the sidebar of recommendations, so I'll watch that now.
After enough wine, it's a slip-and-slide in the back yard for us. We're not uppity folk. :D
Stay well.
Haha! Low maintenance and just as much fun. Good idea.
Next time the lifeguard says "No running on the poolside" you do as he/she says or you'll end up on your arse.
11 months later😁 same here, for the slip and slide.
You know I came across your channel by accident as I'm hoping to buy a house soon but you have made architecture really interesting. So I have subscribed :)
I've been binging your videos, I'm learning a lot, you are very informative. Thank you!
I really like how well informative your videos are. They’re so well structured that after watching them, one can really see how well you’ve planned them
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
I appreciate this commentary/critique. It helps give me a better idea of what my dream home should be. Thanks
Great comprehensive review. Good details with pros and cons. Excellent well made points.
Wonderful time lapse of in-ground pool construction. Thank you
you have an incredible talent of communicating. Fascinating subject matter. Subbed so I can see your other topics.
We have above ground pools. They are easily installed and non disruptive. The best part is you don’t need a crane to lift it over your house (and risk dropping it) when you can buy them from Walmart and put it up yourself. Also they are like 100-3000 $ rather Then 25k
You just saved me tons of time, energy, and MONEY!
Great video Belinda, really interesting and informative thank you for posting.
This is such helpful information. Thank you so much!😊
Love this video. Thank you for teach us this
Just found your channel from shipping container video. Loved your videos👍.Already subscribed✌️
❤️❤️❤️❤️Love your channel! I come here to learn & relax!✨✨✨✨
Very sincere, realistic and educating way of putting things. A very good way to help people to come out of ignorance instead of dreams based on fantasies.
With the world under lockdown and the future of social distancing practices, I am seriously considering an endless pool. I swim 5 days a week. Its been 3 months i haven't had any swim and i don't know when the pool will be open again. Your RUclips video gave a good insight to owning and maintaining a pool.
Thanks for another highly informative video. 👍
I am always excited to learn something interesting from you with each upload.
I'd love to have an endless pool but I'd settle for a sensory deprivation tank. Heck, even a large tub would be great.
Do yr own research, she's made videos about container homes that are full of inconsistency and some with complete lies ... She's supposedly an architect, but I;m a builder with my own company of 30 years and depending on the location and construction method containers can actually be affordable and simple to use as a building product - BTW the fiber glass liners in container pools can be insulated, so yet again this woman leaves out common well known details regarding construction method.
Thanks for the video, also you crushed my dreams too.... absolutely subscribed.
Unless I own a shipping company, I do not think that I would ever want a shipping container. Thank you for a great (but concise) explanation of shipping container pools.
First I watched Nicole build her own pool with her husband watching and then I saw 10 videos of the pool construction. I was super close to getting a pool and then your video came up
Excellent information. The lack of insulation in a shipping container pool is a key factor that most people will overlook. In a hot country like Australia, it is probably not as much an issue. But in cold climates the amount of energy needed to keep a pool warm is a big cost issue.
Install solar panels
Get real, even when we lived in TEXAS we did not heat our pool in winter! Way expensive!
@@karenwoytowich1140 Live in the DFW area. Pool owner and can confirm we use our pool from April to November. Heating is mega bucks so inside during the winter for us.
Big deal, so you have to insulate it just like you would any other pool!
Excellent content - as always. Thank you!
thank you! i asked about this before.. very much enlightening
Thanks for the suggestion!
Nice video with some very good detailed information. Thank you.
Thank you for being so honest! Keep up the good work!
Do you have any insight on the best way to waterproof a side of a shipping container used as a 3ft. retaining wall? I would like to waterproof the steel, place crushed rock next to a soil liner to stop dirt/rock mixing.
So, like, would a shipping container make a good shed? Since storing stuff is what they were made for?
Belinda, thank you very much for this. It came at a most appropriate time with valuable info.
20k for a tiny shipping container or you could pay a quarter as much and get a massive above ground pool that lets you do laps or relax in and is pretty cheap to maintain.
where do you live that an inground pool is cheap to install and maintain
@@kronickingpin I clearly said above ground
I did a shipping container pool, I also used to build in ground traditional pools and I will say I love the container pool. it was about half the price of a fiberglass pool and I was able to do most of the work.
POOL is properly spelled NIGHTMARE
Lol, I learnt that the hard way!
Patrick McLaughlin spelled backwards it’s a boatload of work
Pools are Fun and adds value to a home. You only live once.
@@addictedtopussy69 In some parts of the country a pool does not add value to a house.
@J4rm NORCAL Inflatables aren't for pools. Inflatables are for whitewater rafting.
I love your videos, in depth, industry based opinions backed by experience and facts.
When I was little, I had a pool that was inflatable!
Cheap. Easy to maintain. Simple to store away.
thanks a lot! i live in several locations and my "business" flat has a shared pool - shich is now closed. and that is tragic as i just love swimming. so i am grateful for the pointer towards "endless pools" and will have to look into that now. it is not pretty but seems very functional.
Honestly; seeing a house with a pool is a huge turn off for me (from an ownership perspective).
I see a pool and instead of wonderful relaxation, I see *money pit*. Can't swim in it in the winter (not a cold [read: doesn't get below freezing] climate where I am, but outdoor swimming isn't something I do 6 months of the year) And the other 6 months of the year I wouldn't use it every day.
So instead of something nice, I see 12 months of maintenance for 30 days of use per year. Not coincidentally we get 4 weeks of leave every year ... funnily enough I can just go on holidays somewhere that has a pool.
growing up in arizona, I disagree. That being said, seeing in ground pools in places like NY or illinois seems stupid and lavish. As for your personal opinion on using it, thats entirely up to you. I knew people that never used their pool but I also knew of people who would use it at least twice a week for 8 months out of the year. The maintence wasnt bad for those people because if you did a small bit of skimming once a week before using it, it would never become a huge issue. Biggest thing would be cleaning the limescale off once a year.
I so badly want to disagree with you because I love the look, but you’re so right that they’re completely impractical. You also mention pretty much every disadvantage that it has that I never thought of. Lol
I'm sure that someone could make a shell for any other over-ground pool that makes it look like it was a shipping container once. It might cost a lot but enough money tends to make (nearly) everything a possibility ;)
You could easily contract someone to build you an on-ground pool that retains that same look using traditional/conventional materials and come up with that motif you are interested in while avoiding all the disadvantages at the same time
Great video and very informative. Thank for your service.
I loved your video - quite informative. It was very easy to process, though jam packed with vital information. This beats talking to pool companies and contractors, no offense to them. Everyone has to pay the mortgage. This video was a tremendous part of our decisionmaking while we considered installing a pool. Thank you so much!
My friend has an in-ground pool. It came with the house. Expensive to maintain, and even being stuck home last summer in the pandemic, she went in like 4 times. The great thing about container pools is you can have them hauled away when you get sick of them. She probably won't even open it this year.
I like to imagine she has some tragic origin story containing Shipping Containers.
Like a Shipping Containers shot her parents in a dark ally and she vowed from that day to get her revenge.
you crushed my dreams... SUBSCRIBED!
I've watched a few of your videos now. So when I saw this one, on a topic I'm really interested in, I thought "welp, I guess this will help me decide".
And it did. I'll do it all myself
I'm with you in having a pool for training rather than leisure. The price for an Endless Pool seems high but on the long run seems less expensive to maintain. Thanks for that idea.
Very helpful comparisons, thank you.
Hello Belinda, excellent eye-opening video for someone like me who is moving and looking in an area where pools are not often installed. I have been weighing my options, and like you, are more interested in a pool for exercise than for leisure. Thank you for putting this video together and sharing your opinion.
Great info thanks for pricing and pros and cons. Saved me some research.
I'm with you. I've looked into Endless Pools and that's the way I'm going.
Thoroughly enjoy your channel. Again, the shipping container looks like a great start, but in the end just build what is best and you are likely ahead.
Good video, super helpful :)
I am obsessed with your architectural take on these different projects!
Could you do a video on diy home kits from amazon/DiscoveryDreamHomes Lincoln-Log-type homes??
I build a heated tub myself for a fraction of the price..
I took 2x2x2x2 pallets in the shape of a rectangle, and 4 on the ground..
Then added a plastic sheets on the inside and outside. With 4 steel bars surrounding it for strength..
That only costed me $250.
Next I added a copper pipe that went from the pool into a fire, and back into the pool.
Total costs for a heated hottub was only $500. It would easily fit 10 people.
I should have recorded it for youtube, but I didn't.. Will do next time. No need to spend 10k or 20k!