Is your council run pool like this?

[Palomiino]

Today, my daughter was at a pool party at the local leisure centre and the changing room stank of wee. Then, looking at the floor there were dried, yellow puddles. This is a very recently built pool!

Is this a thing at council pools?

As I said, earlier, it was a changing village and as such, was very big. Most of the floor looked yellow and I had to walk quite a way to find somewhere that wasn’t.

Swim nappies don’t hold liquids though, so if a child does a wee in one on their way in/out of the pool it is just going to go straight through and if it’s when they’re wet from swimming it might not even be obvious they’ve done it and will only smell later. It’s inevitable really if there are babies and preschoolers swimming that there will be wee on the floor. The staff however should be cleaning regularly. At our council place there’s always someone going round mopping.

Ours isn't great cleanliness wise at the moment but is usually fine in term time. We don't have urine puddles but it does smell a bit and the floors are dirty. It is an old pool and the drains are not great which doesn't help.

They have kids swim for a £1 on round us as so it is extra extra busy at times and that's when it looks particularly dirty. 1 member of staff cleaning but due to how busy it is they finish one area and it's used instantly. The other day there were groups of older unsupervised children and the noise level was loid, they left their stuff around in changing rooms and not put in lockers, walking in shoes in non shoe areas. It was obvious that a lot of that group usually come swimming with an adult who does all this for them or prompts heavily.

No mine is very clean