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As for a update on this swimming pool project as if now it looks like it would be cheaper for me to get a 2400 to 7500 gallon fish tank then to try to convert a swimming pool to a fish tank. But I'm still open to this idea of turning a swimming pool to a fish tank if I buy a house with a...

I remember seeing it in the Show Life After People that when reinforced concrete decays water gets into the steel and rusts causing it to gain in volume that pushes the concrete apart.

I think what brings down a pool in terms of it getting filled in and abandoned is poetical like if a new owner has small kids or doesn't want to take care of a pool. My question is would anyone count a pool that was built in the 1950's was used for 20 years with water in it and then filled in...

I've seen people add goldfish and kio to abandoned swimming pools and they eat the bugs. The biggest thing though would be dead leaves and sticks getting in their and making it really flifty. So they could possibly add a bird net or a net tent over the swimming pool to keep out leaves and sicks...

I'm glad someone else on this forum has a idea like I have. What I have been doing lately is looking for houses with old abandoned swimming pools on them. If I happen to get a house with a abandoned swimming pool on it in need of major repairs. I plan on tearing out one of the walls. And having...

I'm currently working on a idea that would use old fish tank water from a 500 gallon goldfish tank and send it though a system of gravel filters to have it enter a toilet. The toilet would be sealed off from the house water system by getting all of it's water from the fish tank. But the idea...

I think I would empty out the pool with a fish pond pump and then get a pressure washer and wash and bleach the whole thing down after draining it.

This is another one of my threads to address the droughts in the Western States. This idea is that it might be possible to set up a feeder line from a swimming pool's filter pump and have it supply water to a toilet to reuse the water. The fresh water that would normally go to the toilet would...

I have a question how much did it cost to build your swimming pool's giant viewing windows such as did you build them your self?" I'm right now looking in to the idea of building a large natural swimming pool or a large fish tank that will be both a swimming pool and a fish tank for my group of...

I once did that once with a large air filled pool at the time where I set it up and filled it up with water. I had a seven inch pet Bluegill fish at the time who I took out of his tank and put him out there to live in to for a few weeks during the summer. I put no chemicals in it and changed a...

I find that amazing that a swimming pool would be 18 feet deep I guess the deep end must be for high dives or something like that. Also 18 feet deep is deeper then a lot of lakes and ponds in my area too. Could you post some photos of it?

BBB has another perk: Filter Cartridge So Easy to Clean I would really like something about eight to ten feet wide for the deep end that is six to seven feet tall and two viewing windows for the shallow end that are eight feet wide by four feet deep. And

What is interesting about this is I have seen several cases where I'm looking at houses with existing pools to become a pool owner. If I saw a place that had a ready to go swimming pool that looked this good even if it was made out of vinyl I would keep it and operate it as is in that it looks...

There was a show called Life After People on the History Channel which showed what would happen to the world and man made things if all the world's people went away. In it they said that what would bring down the buildings and bridges is when the rain and ice water would get into the re bar and...

That is a nice 13 foot deep pool along with the other pool with the glass walls on it I would really like to build something like that.

Split from all-i-can-say-is-thank-you-to-tfp-and-its-core-members-t38180.html Butterfly I have a question about the clear sections holding back the water in the pool are they acrylic or glass in that I need some information on how the pool was built with viewing windows in that I',m planning...

I have a question if anyone would own a natural swimming pool. A natural swimming pool is a swimming pool that sort of like a cross between a pond and a swimming pool where it depends on natural processes to keep it clean instead of poring chemicals into it...

What's good about less steel and more concrete is that steel when it gets near water will rust and expand three times it's size which will cause the concrete around it to buckle. To me it would be cool to find a old pool like that in my yard and dig out and restore it. We had someone spend...

The 14 foot deep swimming pool is at the new indoor pool they opened up at one of the YMCA's in our area it is a very large commercial built pool. The YMCA also has a 12 foot deep diving well also at it. There was a hotel called the Lancaster Host they had a giant 100,000 gallon outdoor pool...

A large supplemental solar hot water heating system could help take the work load off of the oil heater so it has to run less and use less fuel. It could be added to the roof of a building next to the pool to collect the large amounts of waste heat that hit the roof tops around the pool.

I have a question about what does the deepest swimming pool look like on here. In that the pools I go to are seven to nine feet deep while there are a few 12 foot deep pools and some of the newest deep pools with diving boards here that are 14 feet deep. There was even a eight foot deep pool...

I saw a thread on here which showed a pool from the 1930's or 1950's I notice that the big older pools have thicker cement walls then the more modern ones which might explain how they can get berried under tons of earth and rock for decades and still work really well even they are repaired and...

I would love to add one of those to my house or for a future fish tank room I would like to build for my fish. How much do they cost most of the time?

There is something I'm wondering about I have seen pools form the 1960's and hear there are a few swimming pools from the 1950's along with a few from the 1970's but I'm wondering would anyone know if anyone has a still operating swimming pool from say the 1940's or even the 1930's if that is...

There was a pool in Lancaster Pennsyvinia I remember swimming in that fitted these dementions it was a big old 1960's cement pool. It was about 30 feet long and 18 feet wide. the shallow end was ten feet long and it started out at 3.5 feet deep and then tapered off to four feet deep. Then it had...

There is a 1960's built indoor in ground cement swimming pool that is at the Lancaster Host in Lancaster Pennsylvania that I remember going to that sounds like it was the same size as this pool. How the pool was laid out was it had a 2 to three foot shallow end on a steady slope that started out...

On monster fish keepers there is a 10,000 gallon fish tank with ten foot long by six foot high viewing windows that is made out of cinder blocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBEOmqn0Q3M I'm planning on building a monster swimming pool fish tank hybrid myself.

There was also another idea I had in that people like to use cinder blocks to build some home made pools here. But on this other website they like to use cinder blocks and support beams along with sheets of glass and acrylic to make viewing windows for 1000 gallon plus tanks...

I'm right now looking at houses with a new or old swimming pool. If the house has a swimming pool that is in good shape I plan to operate it as a regular swimming pool. But if I happen to get a house that has a very old and in a lot of cases abandoned swimming pool that needs to have sections of...