People often decide on building a home pool to give themselves a space to relax and get healthy as well as improve their fitness, and also to vastly increase the value of their home. If you’re thinking about building a pool in your house there are a number of factors to consider.
Private swimming pools do offer exceptional health benefits and do indeed increase your home’s value provided they are done correctly. If not, they can prove to be both expensive as well as a major source of hassle. It is essential to budget correctly for construction and to both calculate the complete installation costs (including equipment, materials, lighting, ventilation and heating as well as filtration and cleaning) and then to budget for the cost of continued swimming pool maintenance.
Depending on your home you need to decide on whether it will be indoor or outdoor, how large it will be and what kind of liner it will have. Other considerations include whether to have tiles and whether to add decking or paving around the pool. And most importantly, you need to think about what style of pool you need, from tiny spa pool to full blown Olympic training pool, or from kidney shaped dipping pools to sleek and crisp minimalist lined pools. Perhaps you might want to add foliage and waterfalls or even think about the possibility of a natural pool? Just like designing a room in your house, if you are having a pool installed you need to think very carefully about how it will fit with the design and layout of your house and garden and whether it will help or hinder your property.
Finally, and most importantly, you need to be very conscious of the safety aspects of designing swimming pools. Think about who will be using it and particularly if children will be present. If so you need to think very carefully both about the depth of the pool and about the safety of the area around the pool.