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House with swimpool. Is it pointless?

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SweetSally · 05/12/2019 20:20

Hi lovelies!
My husband and I are considering buying a house with an indoor swimpool. We don't know anything about swimpools and are not sure if it's a good investment...

The property is in the UK and the swimpool is indoors (extension added to the house) and it also has a conservatory added to it. It's large space and the swimpool is rather generous when it comes to the sheer size of it.

Please, could you share your experience? We actually want to use the swimpool and are not considering the house because of it. We do actually like the property.

OP posts:
getyourgrooveback · 05/12/2019 22:29

I had a house with an indoor pool. So so SO expensive.

We were paying £2000 per month in gas (but DH liked to have it heated above normal temp Hmm) and as PP has said there are often other issues. Cover troubles (very expensive one that could apparently hold the weight of a rolls Royce but would break down if a nerf toy got any where near it). And condensation was a nightmare.

I would just never bother again

PenelopeFlintstone · 05/12/2019 22:31

I think it was fair to ask why 'swim pool' especially because a swim-spa is little and has a current so swim-pool could have been the same without the jets of the swim-spa.
I think the OP is laughing at us all asking.

Wheredidigowrongggggg · 05/12/2019 22:32

I couldn’t get past the first page and a an update which referred to swim pool. Wtf is a swim pool? Yabu in so many ways for using that term.

Cremebrule · 05/12/2019 22:32

Now I’ve seen the listing I wouldn’t go for it. The pool seems totally out of proportion for the actual house and there isn’t really much garden which is probably a bigger ‘must’ for most families. The place we go swimming is a much bigger house for that sort of size pool.

Gardai · 05/12/2019 22:32

that house is a bit ‘busy’ 😲

Oliversmumsarmy · 05/12/2019 22:33

The house looks quite cramped in comparison to the pool.

I think that is probably the difficulty you are having.

Personally I would want to rip everything out and redesign the whole place tiny kitchen, tiny bedrooms, small living room, enormous swimming pool but it isn’t worth it.

Normally I would say an outdoor swimming pool would devalue a house in the UK because you can rarely use it and an indoor one would be a plus

OTOH I can see that to sell this on would be difficult.

Notodontidae · 05/12/2019 22:33

It looks lovely, go for a swim every morning before breakfast. Dont worry about some of the comments on here, like any thread if anyone spells a word wrong or does not use english grammar, a teacher will pop up from nowhere to moan about it. If the pool is too much trouble or leaks or cost too much to heat put in a false floor and use it as a gym or snooker room. Enjoy

Lulualla · 05/12/2019 22:37

After looking at the house I think this is the property equivalent of fur coat, no knickers. Tiny bedrooms... really, double bed and then a tiny space to squeeze yourself around it, small kitchen which is basically a walk through corridor to get out the back door. The living areas are really average sized.
It's not worth it. If you buy that house then you're really buying it for the pool because the actually house is very disappointing with small rooms.

rattusrattus20 · 05/12/2019 22:37

i've no personal experience. i know someone who bought a house with one whose first electricity bill was somethign absurd, like over £10k or something.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 05/12/2019 22:40

OP
On a slightly different topic. If you post images from a website, it takes seconds to reverse search the image and find the website. That is how people found the listing so easily.

(It once caught out a poster who tried to pretend a swanky hotel bedroom was her own room until someone posted the website link)

SummerBreezemakesmefeelfine · 05/12/2019 22:40

To give another perspective, we were flooded a few years ago and had to move out for refurbishment. We stayed in a holiday cottage for that period, as it was winter and the rent was reasonable. There was a decent sized indoor pool in the grounds nearby, so I used this nearly every day for the exercise. The kids could come too in the evening so it was ideal.

The kids then brought friends after school to use the pool at times when there were few other residents around. It was a great novelty and it simply seemed mean to refuse at first. Yet ensuring the safety of and supervision of other people's kids became a really big responsibility and took up a lot of my time. The age range was 8 to 13, so they could not safely be left unattended. After a few months I was heartily sick of it all and was glad to get home. I now have much greater respect for the lifeguards at our local pool though, it can be a tough job.

OP, unless swimming pools are commonplace in your area it will later become a magnet for your child's friends and others who want to join the fun. Parents may drop them off and leave without a care about who is keeping them safe. This bit surprised me a lot, as some who were really fussy about their kids in public were happy to assume they could bugger off and leave us to it. Never again.

Illeana · 05/12/2019 22:40

The pool is in a pretty good location. It’s reasonably well separated from the house and has direct access to the garden. It also doesn’t block garden access from the rest of the house (often you see a house with a pool on the back that blocks the whole house off from the garden). There’s a reasonable amount of garden left too, the extension doesn’t take up the whole garden. If it’s well constructed I’d buy it.

SevenStones · 05/12/2019 22:41

My fantasy house has a swimming pool, so I'd jump at this!

JeffreeStar · 05/12/2019 22:41

Beautiful pool, but it if you want it. I’ve heard people say swim pool. But calling ppl racist is a bit much.

Excited101 · 05/12/2019 22:42

I love it! A few decor things I’d change, and the entire kitchen! But the pool is beautiful and yes’m could be rented out! Maybe even for kids parties?

rp30 · 05/12/2019 22:43

I don't get the comments that are saying the house is too small for the pool. If the OP is happy with house, then ignoring price, the pool is a bonus.

Where I live, that house, kitchen and bedrooms would be regarded as decent and middle class so occupied by doctors or similar. It also has good parking and a garage. It also has a seperate sizable dining room.

The pool is irelevant to all of that, unless you are saying similar money buys a far bigger house in the area without a pool? But I do not think that is true, the house seems competitively priced, even without the pool.

rattusrattus20 · 05/12/2019 22:43

i don't like it much, for the money. more like a pool with a house attached than vice versa. only for people who love swimming - i suppose really people who have kids [kids, of course, grow up quickly] since the pool doesn't look long enough [though the length of it didn't jump out at me from any of the words in there?] for a serious adult swimmer to do serious lengths.

Pilipilihoho · 05/12/2019 22:44

They make a house less saleable until a sweets pot in the market whereby they are expected at that price point.

If you want a house with a swimming pool, buy it. If you are thinking of it as an investment or to add value, don't.

Frankiestein402 · 05/12/2019 22:44

It's not in a soft water area so cleaning/maintenance has extra issues - plus check insurance costs, including 3rd party if you expect to allow non-family use?

Aroundnabout1 · 05/12/2019 22:48

It would be the safety aspect that would put me off if i had kids. I know someone whose little girl nearly drowned after falling in their pool while she was distracted by answering the door. It put me off.

BellatrixLestat · 05/12/2019 22:48

I personally wouldn't want a pool with young children. I won't even have a pond in the garden.

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SilverySurfer · 05/12/2019 22:50

It seems huge compared to the size of some of the other rooms plus no en suites to any of the bedrooms and a relatively small garden - it just seems out of balance. It looks lovely but to me doesn't fit with the rest of the house. Also if you have young children I reckon it's too big a risk. It only takes one minute of forgetfulness to forget to lock the door and a tragedy could happen.

Loopytiles · 05/12/2019 22:50

No from me!

Excited101 · 05/12/2019 22:51

That’s not an issue with the pool Around that’s an issue with lax parenting! I wouldn’t leave the room with children in a bath, certainly not a pool! Nor would millions of others.