Contents

Swimming Pool Ideas

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

Pool Safety Fences - A Buying Guide

Landscaping For a Pool

Popular Water Activities for the Backyard

Pros and Cons of Chlorine

Swimming Pool Bars

The Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool Accessories for Aboveground Pools

Swimming Pool Heaters

Diving in its Different Forms

Swimming Pool Covers

Swimming Pool Safety

Underwater Digital Cameras

The Science of Swimming

Styles Of Garden Furniture

Why You Ought to Install a Pool Alarm

Swimming Laps at Home in The Pool

Swimming Accessories

Pool-related Deaths

Swimming Pool Ideas

The supreme home health apparatus!

by

Owen Jones

Published by Megan Publishing Services

http://meganthemisconception.com

Copyright Owen Jones 2022 ©

Hello and thank you for buying this ebook called ‘Swimming Pool Ideas’.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.

The information in this ebook on how to make the most of any ideas you may have about a home pool is organized into 18 chapters of about 500-600 words each.

A swimming pool is the ultimate home improvement for billions of people around the world. However, it needn’t be as expensive as you might think, if you take the DIY approach. I know many families that have installed their own swimming pool

However, this manual is not about siting, digging out creating a pool. It is more about enhancing the pool after you have put in the effort of installing one.

I hope that it will interest those who would like to do something about enhancing and making the most of their domestic swimming pool.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

You may also split the book up and resell the articles. In fact, the only right that you do not have is to resell or give away the book as it was delivered to you.

Thanks again for purchasing this book,

Regards,

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

Pool Safety Fences - a Buying Guide

Landscaping for a Pool

Popular Water Activities for the Backyard

Pros and Cons of Chlorine

Swimming Pool Bars

The Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool Accessories for Aboveground Pools

Swimming Pool Heaters

Diving in its Different Forms

Swimming Pool Covers

Swimming Pool Safety

Underwater Digital Cameras

The Science of Swimming

Styles Of Garden Furniture

Why You Ought to Install a Pool Alarm

Swimming Laps at Home in the Pool

Swimming Accessories

Pool-related Deaths

Pool Safety Fences - A Buying Guide

If you have had a swimming pool for some time or if you are thinking of getting one - either an above-ground or an in-ground swimming pool - you should check to see whether your district requires you to take any safety precautions. For example, some states in America call for the erection of a swimming pool safety fence by law, others are about to introduce such a law and others are thinking of requiring a pool alarm as well.

However, it is not all one-sided. There are also advantages to the owner of the pool of installing a pool safety fence. The main benefit of such a fence is safety. If you have young children or grand-children, you do not always have the time to supervise them playing in the pool, so a fence is a way of allowing the kids to play in the garden while excluding them from the dangerous pool.

Kids can be scallywags, all adults know that even if some parents think that their own children are not, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone else thinks they are. Our children know that they have to behave in front of us, but what happens when they know that we are not watching? You know, you were a kid yourself once. I climbed the fence into the municipal outdoor pool more than once when I was a teenager and usually after a few beers.

The fact is that if you have an unprotected pool, there is a good chance that the local kids will use it whilst you are away and these days that means negligence on behalf of the pool owner. Whether that is right or wrong, it is like that and if someone were to drown in your pool, you would be in big trouble, unless you could establish that your took reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized access to your pool.

A security pool fence is just about the cheapest way of doing that, although fences can be easily scaled as I full-well know. However, having a fence shows that you have considered the issue and that you have tried to deter intruders.

There are quite a few acceptable styles of pool fencing but it might vary from district to district, so it is first worth checking whether there are any local minimum standards in force in your region. Other than that, there are choices of wire, wood and metal. Wire can include mesh fences as well.

Timber probably looks the best and gives the most options. If you want total privacy, you can have a full fence or if you would like to be able to see out, you could go for hit-and-miss vertical boarding. I do not like mesh, personally. I have painted tens of miles of fencing in my time and there always seems to be litter caught in the mesh. Iron railings are nice too, but pretty expensive.

Whichever type of fence you go for, grow a continuous wall of the prickliest, thorniest bushes you can find around the base of it. Pyracanthas are good and the berries attract birds - wild birds, that is. Let them grow to three or four feet high and they will deter drunks and give the ladies some privacy when lying around the pool.

Landscaping For a Pool

Many people like the idea of having a pool in their backyard. If you do as well, you should understand that it takes either a lot of work or a lot of money to install. Then there is the continuous maintenance of the pool and its water. If you are concerned that you will lose all of your garden, there is no need, because you can design your pool so that there is a fair bit of greenery built into it. In deed, there are many suggestions you can use when landscaping for a pool.

When landscaping for a pool, you ought to have a design to work to. You can either have a tailor-made drawing drawn up for your backyard, you could make your own design or you could use one out of a periodical. There is no reason why you can not create your own blueprint. The best way to begin would be to get some suggestions from landscaping publications or other household periodicals.

The best way of going about landscaping for a pool is to plot the exact size and shape of your backyard on a piece of graph paper to scale. Mark in any immovable objects such as downpipes, a shed or septic tank. If that constrains the size of your pool too much, you can have these objects moved if need be. Nothing is impossible, but it does add to the cost. Once you have sufficient space, you are all set to start planning.

Copy and modify drawings from periodicals by all means, but if you feel that you are skilled enough, have the plan done for you. A local architect can do it, or phone the local technical college and ask one of the lecturers or students to draw it for you. It is not as costly as you might think. If you have the drawing done for you, make certain that you have thought about what you want and make certain that the drawer knows about it.

If you want lots of flowers, it is best to have raised flower beds. This will prevent your flowers from spreading too far and will give you greater control. The plants will have to be quite hardy and resistant to chemicals such as chlorine. The atmosphere will be more humid around the pool as well.

You will have to have some shaded area for when it is really hot. Trees are a good idea, but they can take a very long time to grow. Palms look great by a pool, but some species can take five years to grow high enough. You could check out the possibilities of planting semi-mature trees or look for faster-growing varieties. In the meantime, you could construct a grass-roofed lean-to or some umbrellas.

Lighting is also an important factor. The pool should be floodlit at night to preclude people falling into it at night; but not only for that purpose, it looks good too. Accent lighting on the plants and trees really brings atmosphere to the pool and these lamps can be solar powered so that you can move them around if you want to.

Popular Water Activities for the Backyard

When it grows hot, most individuals head out the door. A great deal go to a public pool, a river, lake or the beach, but others would rather stay in their own backyard. Some people are lucky enough to have a pool in their back yard, but not everybody has the space or the money. However, the majority of individuals like getting wet in order to cool down.

In this article, we will look at a few of the things that you do can in the backyard involving water to help you remain cool. The first one is the one we have already alluded to and the one home improvement that almost everyone would have if they could. A pool. Individuals love the thought of having a garden pool.

If your budget cannot stretch to a substantial in ground pool, you could set up a smaller above-ground pool. These above-ground pools are a lot cheaper, and while not large enough to swim in, they can absolutely be considered substantial plunge pools. Half a dozen people can have a lot of fun in one of these pools.

If this is not possible, what about a Jacuzzi or a hot tub? There is a lot of flexibility in hot tubs nowadays. You can have them built into all kinds of nooks and crannies in the garden.

You can also buy a hot tub of any size you like: two, four, six, eight people and everyone with a moulded seat with its own hydro-therapeutic directional water jets, so that you can play the jets on any parts of your body that you like.

If this is out of the question as well, what of a few garden water sprinklers? You could have plastic waterproof garden furniture and sit under the sprinklers simulating rain. This is an simple and very cheap way of cooling off when it is very warm.

You could hand everybody in your garden a water pistol to squirt everybody with. This may sound a little juvenile but kids and a lot of adults actually enjoy it. Similar to this, you could fill a couple of dozen balloons up with water and use them for throwing at each other like having your own paint ball competition without getting dirty.

Water games are great fun and a good manner of keeping cool when the sun is beating down in the summer. Just one word of warning - sunburn. Water will cool you down and you might not notice that you are burning. Be certain that everybody uses waterproof suntan lotion of a factor that is appropriate to the degree of sunshine in your locality.

Pros and Cons of Chlorine

Some people are bitterly opposed to the addition of chlorine to tap water, even if they concur with its use in swimming pool water, but there those who disagree with using it in pools as well.

However, the government surely must have its reasons for adding chlorine to our general water supply, so in this piece, we will look at the pros and cons of chlorine.

Choline is an element and its name in Ancient Greek means ‘light green’. It has been known for millennia and in its most ubiquitous guise it is found as sodium chloride, which is better known as common salt. We consume it in and on our food each day. It is a food taste enhancer, but in excess, it is responsible for obesity because of water retention and high blood pressure.

Chlorine can be smelled and in its gaseous form, chlorine was used to poison soldiers in the trenches of the First World War. However, chlorine comes in many compounds and even compounds of compounds and so is simple to get confused.

It is an oxidizer and consequently can be used as a bleach and thus as a disinfectant. Hence its use in swimming pools and toilets. Then again, it has also been blamed for getting into the upper atmosphere and depleting the ozone layer.

The fact of the matter is that, in its most natural, pure, elemental form, chlorine is highly poisonous, but on the other hand, it is necessary to most types of life including human life. In short, it is a dangerous but necessary chemical.

Hydrochloric acid is one of the most hazardous acids on the planet but has numerous industrial applications, such as the production of some