Do you have a built in swimming pool?

No, but I wish. Thought admittedly, it seems like it would be a waste considering it typically rains 9 months out of 12 in Portland. But I would love an in-ground swimming pool. I have to settle for the largest above ground that money can buy during summer, or use a public pool. Which… no, to the latter. lol

I have a 4’ plastic kiddie pool that I got for the puppy…he refuses to play in it. So I do. Well, not play, no room.
Coming over to your house, @Coloma.

@DrasticDreamer Haha, Well, with all that rainfall, your pool would runneth over.

@canidmajor Sure, suit up! I forgot how much I liked to swim!

I don’t. My son and his wife recently bought a large above ground pool for them and the kids. I was trying to show my four year old granddaughter how to do a power mermaid dive to the bottom of the ocean….when it hit me. The bottom of the ocean hit me because it’s only four feet deep.

But it’s still wonderful. I want one. But I’d be SO paranoid about a kid drowning in it…..

I just came home from an hour in the public pool down the street. It was so great. I’d forgotten that I actually like outdoor pools. I’ve had more sun in the last three days than all of last summer. Feels good.

Given the size of our properties here in Toronto, the only outdoor pool we could have would be one of those puppy-size kiddie pools.

The damned things require entirely too much maintenance. It would amount to a dependant that I can’t write off, and the weather in this town renders an outdoor pool useless.

Swimming in the dark is the beginning of many horror movies. Take a crossbow JIC…

Well, horror movies..and Great Adventures. Especially if you’re a teen….

We just moved into a 70’s era neighborhood that has a huge community pool just a short walk away. My wife is a pool junkie and wanted a pool at our next house. I like big oak trees. The two don’t mix and upkeep on a pool sucks. This situation worked out well.

I do until tomorrow when I head back home. At my mom’s home where my sis’s and I are packing up her estate and her pool has been a God send in this awful Florida heat. Next weekend I will be up at my lake house…though not a pool, it is a huge ass built in lake…does this count?

…“a huge ass built in the lake…” ?? :/

@Dutchess_III 50 years ago they built a dam that created a 10,000 acre lake that we have a house on. Next best thing to a Beverly Hillbillies Cement Pond

Oh! “Built-in” lake. Man-made lake. I’m with you. Those are the only kind of lakes we have in Kansas. It counts…but only if you get in the water.

Pools fully in the shade now so I will going out again soon, it is damn hot here, 100 degrees through Weds./Thurs.

@Cruiser Built in lakes are even better. haha
I miss the river by my old house and my cold hot tub.
A “hot” tub is a great pool alternative, you just keep it cold all summer and lounge in it to lower your core temp.
For those of you that don’t want to maintain a pool get a tubby. :-)

That sounds amazing Coloma. I used to love my night swims in South Africa. Alas now I would be too terrified to have a built in pool as it would freeze over and have ducks on it. I was thinking of getting heated spa, but there’s no room left in my tiny garden! The temperature here has dropped this summer to around 15C. Yak!

I wish as well, but my septic line winds into my back yard, and that means I can’t put a pool there. Which is a shame.

On the other hand, it may be a blessing. I know people who have pools, and it seems to me that it takes enormous amounts of $$ (and daily effort) to keep it clean and maintained. So maybe I don’t really want a pool.

I had one at my house in Delray Beach, FL. I’ve had access to a community pool most of my life. Up north it was just in the summer obviously, but in FL it was all year round. When I lived in TN the community pool was overfull with people and kids and I couldn’t use it, and it pissed me off to not have a pool to go to. Nothing like a pool to feel like you’re on vacation.

Don’t swim alone. It’s not safe.

Had an above ground pool at my mom’s house when I was 11–14ish. I used to swim before school when I woke up early enough. That’s a habit I’d love to get into again.

@JLeslie I’ll take my chances, going out now before bed soon. haha
I’m not alone, I have a Husky and a pussy cat with me. lol

We have an Endless Pool® “EP” (7 ft X14 ft and 5 feet deep). You swim against a current that’s infinitely variable from very slow to raging river speed. Or turn off the current and do aquarobics. It’s enclosed in a sunroom. We’ve had it for 11 years and love it. It’s the soul of our house. I swim in it all year round even when it’s storming and snowing outside in the winter. Also in the winter the pool room is the warmest room in the house. Cats love to sleep on the pool cover. It’s their water bed when I’m not using it.

I like having my own pool because unlike public pools, it’s not ever over crowed, I control the chlorine and water temperature and I make the rules.

I use to be a slow swimmer, but I’ve improved tremendously for long distance triathlon swims where I’m nearly aways the first out of the water in my age class.

As I get older I’ve been using my EP more and more. Swimming is the ultimate in low impact exercising and is so gentle on this aging body (I’m 65).

Jack LaLanne said that swimming is the best form of exercise.

I have an inground pool (10m/32.8’ x 4m/13.1’). I love it. So do the birds. I really enjoy swimming in the hotter months and even exercising in the pool generally. It’s hard not to move when you’re in a pool. However, on a hot day I do love to take my Kindle out there and sit on the steps until I cool off. And it’s great to help you cool off before sleeping.

I can’t wait until we get our new pergola up. I want it to be strong enough to put solar pool heating on top of the roof so I can swim for more of the year.

I live in a town home, so no.

The house I grew up in did not have a pool for most of my childhood. When I was in high school, my parents bought the vacant property next to ours and had a pool built across the two properties, so I did enjoy it for a little while (and do when I visit home). :)

Yes, much of my backyard is a wonderful pool. We have a child protective fence around it. This is me in a lounge chair next to the pool, with my orange tree in the background. This was taken before we installed the fence.

No. I live on a lake in a community where you’re not allowed to have a pool. I can go to the lake 24/7/365. I don’t really care for swimming in it with the sand (at the beach area) and all, but my daughter likes it. There’s also a clique that’s usually at the beach that I don’t really care to deal with but that’s living in an area where there are cliquey types.

Up until a month ago I did. While it was great for kids and grandkids maintaining and cleaning is a neverending chore for the adults who own it. I would not have an in-ground pool again; something I hear repeatedly from those who have had them before.

From what I hear pool owners say, it’s a lot of work to keep it clean and maintain it. I’m sure it’s a great thing to have, though, especially when it’s hot. It is a liability, though and when it comes to selling the home, not all home buyers want a pool.

@rojo In the city/surburbia I think the risk is higher but here, this place is 10 acres and well fenced, pool area included. Nobody, especially kids, are going to just wander in. Actually, the old dog here fell in and almost drowned a couple years ago. Bigger risk here of wild life in the pool. haha

Last night was lovely, I was actually swimming with red and yellow rose petals that were drifting across the pool form some of the roses blowing out. haha

Oops..I meant to address that post ^ to @jca

@jca We pay $100 a month to a pool service. There are extra charges each year for repairs and upkeep. The biggest expense is the heater, so we seldom use it.

@YARNLADY Yes, there is a pool service here as well, he comes once a week or maybe every 2 weeks from what I have noticed. Water is always sparkling clean and this pool has the nice black bottom so it is sparkling dark water. haha

I have a husband. His view on our pool would be entirely different to mine. :-)

No; we are not permitted to have them here but this gated community provides a lovely, large one up the street. It’s never full. The weather is too hot to go swimming. lol A hot day with a pool that has warm water appeals to few, evidently.

Yea at my apartment complex, but I don’t go in much cause of all the people. The few times I do go I like to swim a few laps and drink some Miller Light while some of the neighborly MILFs fan me and feed me grapes.

@Blackberry LOL, ya need to round up some of those fat bottomed girls you so covet. haha