Build your own swimming pool START to FINISH

[chaderichunt]

Nice job. Next time round your corners and the area where the bottom meets the walls. Makes for easier cleaning!

[chaderichunt]

Also Sean, why not steps? How much money did you have in material for this pool when finished (estimated)?

[welwyncottage]

@chaderichunt

hi, see above posting and add this - ran out of letters

Paint £300.

Paving £600.

Ladder and roller for cover £100 ebay.

Cover £120.

Other electrics (trip switch and cables) £150.

Running costs - £100 on chemicals a year

I only run the pump and filter when I add the chemicals and when cleaning the bottom, 2 to 3 hours every 2 weeks

[welwyncottage]

@chaderichunt

Hi, I curved the vertical corners in case I had to use a liner but the pool doesn't leak so painting was the cheapest finish, The horizontal corners at the bottom have got a 45 degree angle approx 6 inch wedge to help cleaning (I tried to curve the bottom but it didn't look a good finish so I flattened the curves to a 45 degree angle before they set

Sean

[welwyncottage]

@welwyncottage Hi, Costings Excavation, Digger and Dumper £300 for a 3 day hire. No skips as I graded the soil generated into a bank at the back of my garden Steel reinforcement, bars and mesh £400 Concrete base, ready mixed £1100 Concrete blocks, sorry I can't find the invoice Waterproofing additive £80 Sand & cement £300 Base levelling ballast and wall back fill £300 Copings £600 Certikin Pipe work, skimmer, drains and joints £200 Lights £600 Pump and sand filter £150 ebay

[welwyncottage]

Hi,

They are the 2 drains / suction points (2 required – with 1 someone may get held against it due to the suction of the pump). I covered them with wood tops then after pouring the concrete uncovered them and contoured the concrete down to the top of the drains. I had pressure tested the pipe work prior to pouring the concrete as I worried about having a leak that I couldn’t do anything about under the concrete base.

Hope that’s of help, anything else just get back in touch

Sean

[Phil96Phil]

Nice video, but what was the use of the white plastic things that were on the ground if u covered them with concrete? In the video at 2:01

[Frostype]

Why is the color of the water green at first, then it turned blue? )))

[Mr2011DomDom]

@Frostype the first time it was filled with water they hadn't painted the inside blue, the reason they didn't paint it, was to check for leaks in the concrete or any unusual happenings, then it is painted, filled with water and then chlorine is pumped through which also makes the water a blue colour

[Frostype]

@Mr2011DomDom thank you for this thorow expanation. I actually liked the other color even better, I think it looked very harmonic with the environment. But that is just my opinion, I will make my pool green when I build one. But your pool I liked very much it is very nice;-) especially the design of the floor rocks, it just blew me away with its beauty :-) I hope one day I will build myself a pool as beautifull as yours' ;-) Cheers!

[welwyncottage]

@Frostype

Hi,

I filled the pool initially without painting so the kids could use it straight away - no chlorine so algae grew in about three weeks, Drained it then painted with chlorinated rubberised paint

Sean

[Frostype]

@welwyncottage Ow! That makes sense now. Excellent! Now I am theoretically ready to build my own pool))) Thank you very much Sean!

[MountainDweller67]

@welwyncottage - yep, seeing the green at 6:15 reminded me why I didn't build an in-ground one...and, why when the kids left home, I didn't have one for years anyhow...if pH wasn't high enough, it was too high, oops, there goes the rain again...100-degree days pulled 6-inches of water out, pH is off again...uuuugh...you get old, too much like work...LOL...but hey, nice job!

[welwyncottage]

@MountainDweller67

Hi, Only now green after winter shut down. I don't seem to have the ph problem you mention, mainly because I don't test for ph any more I just look at the chlorine level then add granules. If I'm honest I don't test for that either I just add 5 litres of granules a week and if the kids complain it's got too much in I leave it for another week. Yes sunny days and pool parties lower the water level by 2 or 3 inches.

[voodoomelons]

Very nice. What is the material used on the concrete blocks, plaster of some kind?

[welwyncottage]

@voodoomelons

Hi,

The plaster effect is just a render - cement, sharp sand, water proofer and water mix. About 10mm thick. I used a plastering trowel

Sean

[voodoomelons]

@welwyncottage Brilliant, thanks!

[beramz83]

whats is the basic needs to make swimming pools, because i like to build one for family use or private pool. what need for electrical ang plumbing job? please advice

[welwyncottage]

@beramz83

Hi,

A lot of thought prior to starting, determination to finish and a little knowledge of plumbing and electrical work. Plumbing involved just planning pipe routes then glueing the pipes with a special plastic glue, I had never used this sort of pipe before or even glue for pipes, tools were a saw for cutting pipes and thinners for cleaning the pipe ends then glue. Electrical work lights and pump only. The wiring fairly easy for a novice.

The lights were expensive but worth it

[scopertonosol]

Nice job, and instructive video. What size is the pool?

[welwyncottage]

@scopertonosol

Hi,

8m x 4m x 1.6m (level bottom)