Heated Splash Pool / Dip Pool Construction (Semi In-Ground) - Step by Step
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2020
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A small splash pool is much cheaper to build, heat and maintain than a larger swimming pool. We aren’t ones for swimming lengths in pools, so this size is ideal for us :-)
The final size of the pool surround is:
Longer Left Side: 4.36m
Edge Side: 3.9m
Shorter Right Side: 3.52m
The pool itself is
Longer Left Side: 2.26m
Edge Side: 3.15m
Shorter Right Side: 1.62m
Water Depth: 1.4m
Pool volume - about 6000 litres of water / 6 Cubic Metres.
The decking system I used was a little more expensive than others, but it is totally impervious to water, not slippery, has a lovely texture to the touch and looks fantastic - I would highly recommend it. It also works out as a great pool edge, so I didn’t need to use coping stones around the top of the pool, which I don’t personally like the look of. This system looks much more contemporary.
Having the pool semi-in-ground meant that due to the waterline being above ground level the pump didn’t need to be self-priming, so I could use off-the-shelf (therefore cheaper cost) Intex Pool Pump and salt water system that are usually used in rigid stand up pools. This saved me hundreds of pounds in pool equipment.
AirSource heat Pump. This is the most efficient way to heat the pool. For every kW of electricity used, the heater generates about 5-6kw of heat.
Insulation - this is the most important thing. Keeping the heat in the pool. This insulation has kept the heat in the pool lovely and warm.
I am lucky enough to have solar panels on the house, so I only run the pump, salt system and heater during the day. On a sunny day the pool is basically free to run and keep heated. On cloudy and raining days, I estimate the equipment draws about 8-9Kw total over 7 hours, so this only costs me about £1.71 per day. I run the pool equipment from 9am - 4pm.
Salt Water System - I love this - it is so easy to maintain. I highly recommend this. When you fill the pool I had to put in 21kg of salt. This is then converted by the machine to produce natural chlorine - makes the water really soft and smells good! No chemicals to keep on top of. I just have to top up about 5kg of salt every week or so when it starts beeping at me. A bag of 25kg salt is about £6, so very cheap to maintain the pool too.
Buying a pool cover can be expensive. Intex again do large round one for around £35 - so I bought one of those and cut it to size.
Using the pool cover overnight, the pool loses about 2.5-3 degrees centigrade overnight - which isn’t too bad. To improve on this, I have recently bought some more of the pool insulation to use as a thick insulated cover at night. It takes a couple of minutes to put on, but now the pool is only losing about 1-1.5 degrees centigrade overnight - a huge saving.
We are currently in September (UK) as I write this, but I have been able to keep the pool, at a toasty 31-32 degrees centigrade this month, which is almost like a spa temperature. I am hoping to keep the pool in use until about October when I will have to shut it down and winterise it. I aim to open the pool again late April / early May.
Here are the main suppliers I used:
Deck System - Millboard
bit.ly/millboardpool
Composite Joists (for deck to screw into)
bit.ly/compositejoists
Pool Insulation System - Panel Systems
bit.ly/panelsystemspool
Paint Sprayer - Airblast
bit.ly/airblastspraysolution
Pool Paint
bit.ly/2partepoxypoolpaint
Pool Pipe Fittings - UK Pool Store
bit.ly/ukpoolstore
Intex Pump & Salt Water System
bit.ly/intexpoolequipment
Air-Source Heat Pump
bit.ly/airsourceheatpump
Cost
The approximate cost for the project, including all pumps, heaters etc was about £6,500.
£2000 of this was for the decking solution I used. If you were to build a similar structure fully inground I expect you save approx £1,500 - £1,750 from this cost, although you may need to spend more on a self-priming pump that can pull the water out the pool to filter - or build a pool house in-ground.
£2000 Decking
£799 Air Source Heat Pump
£199 Pump & Filter
£199 Salt Water Chlorinator
£500 Pool Insulation
£500 Blocks
£150 Sand
£100 Cement
£200 Pipework & Fittings
£100 Stainless Steel Bolts
£150 Clay Heave Board
£200 Emergency OSB Boards (Hopefully you won’t need this!)
£250 Rebar
£250 Gunite
£80 Adhesive
£50 Glass Fibre Mesh
£100 Deck Fix Composite
£140 PoolPaint
£90 Tiles
£290 Pool Floor Cement
£150 Tool / Machine Hire
£150 Skimmer - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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I built pools for 7 years ages ago. Considering this is a DIY block pool without using heavy equipment, you did an outstanding job.
Disclaimer I suppose you have to, most pro builders won't put as much pride effort into their work as you have. I loved that you over engineered the pool, build it once and only enjoy it then on first class job even by my standards 🤫 👏👏👏
I have been thinking about a plunge pool in my back yard. I have watched a lot of videos, but this is about the size I want. Cool in the summer, hot in the winter. All this pool needs is a cool cover! Beautiful workmanship.
Wow. I'm not even looking for a DIY pool/ spa, but ended up watching the entire video - very well done!
just wanna say, before I ever watch, im excited about watching this video!
I learned a lot from this video. Beautiful workmanship! Thanks a lot!👍🏻👊🏻
Great work, love the detailed breakdown of materials and costs!
It looks very professional at minute 1:05. Great job I’ll continue to watch
Oh my..way beyond my DIY skills. BEAUTIFUL
These videos may be few and far between but they are definitely worth the wait. Excellent job bro.
Super nice and simple design. I get a lot of inspiration to do the same now in my back garden area Thanks!!
Inspirational, viewing a few of these for my own pool project in the next 12-24 months, congratulations on a fantastic job 😊👌
I have always dreamed about building a block pool .You did a beautiful job !
100% worth the hard work. Feet up and a cold beer..cheers!
Absolutely amazing. Planning on doing the same size / design in Cyprus. This is invaluable.
I am just going to say WOW!! Well done!!
The best I've ever seen. Congratulations!
Really big ideas! I loved it, and learned a lot from it! Thank you!
This might be a project i do in the future .
Thanks for the video .
Love the end result.
Wow! What a project! Well done it looks fantastic!
Thanks for sharing ,what a hard working intelligent man you are .
I was enjoying the music so much i forgot to watch the video! Had to rewind. Beautiful work 👏
Beautiful work!!!
Halfway through and this is amazing craftsmanship. Also the music I needed it sound like 528hrz
That is so FABULOUS!
Super impressive! I'm blown away!
really impressed with your work, will certainly be taking pointers from this
Fantastic job. Super to watch. Thanks!
Wow looks incredible!
Fabulous job! Well done!
I'll be building something very similar to this at my house. Great job. I learned a few things.
Really great work. And thank you for sharing all the information.
Beautiful design, fantastic build.
Wow that came out beautiful
Smashed it mate, well done!
Thanks for changing the music, great project, looks beautiful.
Thanks! Awesome work.
Wow if your not a pro then your gifted because your work is amazing ! Great job it's perfect!
Just lovely!
Lovely job. Great work.
It is better to have vertical starter bars coming up 600mm (2 ft) from the base. These can be chemset of tied into the base's reinforcing mesh when pouring the base. Lay the concrete blocks to make the wall to the height desired. With each row, lay two horizontal 12mm rebar with 600mm overlap where joined. Then core-fill with 32MPa concrete and, at the same time insert vertical bars at 200mm separation. Use the vertical rods to also vibrate the core-fill concrete so as to ensure good compaction. The top end of the vertical rebars are just below the top of the finished wall.
Doing it this way means you are not lifting blocks up over tall vertical rebars as shown here in this video. It is also safer for the tradesmen, avoiding injury from lifting and impalement.
Otherwise, a very impressive effort.
Kevin could perform Rockwell's infamous "Retro Encabulator" commercial in one take.
Beautiful work! Congrats!
That is alot of work!!! Great job
Lovely job. Enjoy!
Bloody brilliant well done
Wow, what an excellent project!! Very nice job, makes me want to grab a shovel!!
Absolutely fabulous video thank you so much for the price breakdown also you have ticked every box for what I'm looking for much appreciated.
Your pool looks amazing! Thumbs up.
Subscribed
Thanks! Hope your build goes well.
That’s beautiful 🤩
Great job. Happy times. Most important part
Incredible. I need one!
That was the most amazingly relaxing video of all time! What a beautiful pool! Great Job!
Well done! Cheers
beautiful job !!!
Nice work and thanks for the steps
This is amazing - and thanks so much for gathering all the equipment used and sharing! I'd like to surprise my Wife (well not so much surprise coz I'm sure she will realize what is happening) with a plunge-pool for her birthday this August - and your video is going to be one of my top references!
Thanks again for taking the time to put this together & share!
How is progress, should love to see
@@outtersteller hi! Unfortunately due to the crazy material prices in Hungary we had to postpone the project for next year 😢
That looks the biz. Great work
Brilliant thank you, I'm planning this for my summer job, slightly smaller and may go for solar thermal to heat.
Great DIY project 🌞
Thats brilliant. well done :)
What a great video? A beautiful job. Definitely one of the best l have seen. Once you get some outdoor furniture set up, it would look even better. Well done 👍👍 Greetings from Australia
Great job!
thanks for upload stunning pool build fair play
Fabulous job
So happy I stumbled across this video. excatly what I'm planning on doing and just confirmed my choice of materials. I'm going to fibreglass the pool instead of rendering it :-) Great job!
Hi there, what brand of insulation boards did you use?
Well done you have over engineered .
Nice job
Kind regards Mickaeel Scotland
Good job!
Great work! Thanks for the detailed expense list.
looks amazing
Woah! You are too underrated! Keep up the great Work!
Well done!
Very inspiring!
This is amazing! And good to know it only takes 14 minutes ;)
This is what happens when you love what you do!
Imagine someone not loving and doing this?
The project will be an unending hell!
excellent video dude.
lots of hard work.
you should be very proud of yourself.
Good Job. I like people who can and want to do something on their own. I wish you more successful projects.
awesome job!
Just awesome.
Excellent job. Very nice.id live one.😀
WOW, what a great DIY job you have done there. We both are interested in DIY projects so subbed.
Very very nice you did a wonderful job
Awesome job and most enjoyable vid.
Wow very nice!
yes amazing job
Omg amazing 🤩
Great job. Very inspiring. Thank you. Ages ago I repaired pools, 10 years. As soon as we painted ourselves out of the shallow end my boss started filling the deep end. It was a hot sunny resort. The large pool surface was hot before we started. The deep end was baked by the time we exited. Any remaining cure occurred under water. Did 1000+ pools, only had 1 problem. Someone climbed fence jumped in a 10’ deep pool, only 3’ filled. Pool surface was covered with shoe prints all season. BTW, I’m building my own pool now. I’ll let the paint cure for a week too. TY.
yeah paint lasts longer if it cures dry for a week
BEAUTIFULLY DONE! YOU DIDNT CUT CORNERS WHEN IT COMES TO BUILDING IT. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING WORK. KEEP UP THE GOOD CONTENT
Cool Pool 😄👍👍
Awesome Job :-)
You're hired!
Outstanding
Very cool. I wish I could dig in my earth!!
Incredible
Good on you Mate
DomIJ
Amazing 👌
A Strip of Waterproof LED Lights around the inside would be the Cherry on Top of that Beautiful Pool! You Did an Awesome job 👏 🙌 👍. For having no professional experience in building pools and Decks. You definitely made a professional looking pool!
You are amazingly talented! wow
I was going to say the same thing about you 😍
@@MrTrda I wouldn't say she's talented, just likes to show off her body for $views$ !!!
beautiful
That's one hell of a job man.
Nice!
Holy moly