Recent content by mike2008

Thanks everyone for your good advice. I think I'll put my "pouring cement into the liner" plan on hold, and think pressing ahead with other ways of securing the pool from a child safety point of view. Has anyone seen those polycarbonate covers, that go on sliding tracks, and look a bit like...

I don't know. I only moved in a couple of months ago, and so the boiler's only been running once. (and I've not had any gas bills yet... :shock: ) This was after I had spent a couple of weeks of hard work getting on top of a severe algal problem that had developed in the vacant period between...

Thanks everyone for your comments so far. Dear Waste: Yes - further advise about the decision and the how-to would be gratefully received! In the first instance, if you have further advise about the decision of whether or not to do this, that would be useful. I take the point about diving...

Hi Mark, in both cases i was planning to protect the pool with either fencing or a dome. but the reason i thought the 4.5 was safer was probably that i prefer the idea of a weaker swimmer being able to stand in the deep end - plus it would be easier to heat a smaller body of water. any...

I've got a 18x32ft in-ground lined pool in the garden (approx 1970s intall, a company called Fernden). The deep end is 8ft - and for reasons of child safety I'm keen to raise the bottom to a maximum of about 4.5 ft. I've had a contractor quote the job on site ($ many thousands!), and another...