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With our hottest days getting hotter, a pool would be lovely!
Landscaping - Swimming pool removal?
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Jesus you could make that garden look epic
You gotta keep the pool. Can you tile it?
You gotta keep the pool. Can you tile it?
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as above, clean it up all up then get a specialist in to check it all over.
a bit of sprucing up and that would look great.
a bit of sprucing up and that would look great.
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Certainly looking a lot better now you're part way through cleaning it up. Given what was said earlier in this thread, I'm wondering if keeping it and getting it back into a useable condition might end up cheaper than filling or removing it !
Good luck either way. Its turning into an interesting project thread.
Good luck either way. Its turning into an interesting project thread.
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A refurbed pool will certainly add value to the property as well.
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An old school friend of mine owns his own pool company, dropped him a Facebook message and he's coming round tomorrow to give us an idea of costs to reinstate - I sent him photos of the pump room and from that he's managed to ascertain it used to be a saltwater pool, and he believes was solar heated.
The western wall got knocked down this weekend too, we'll look to extend the pool deck area to the western boundary, will be quite the hosting area when done!
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Just think of those pool parties you can have.
michael barrymore parties ?
From your overhead photo it looks like you've got an excess of tarmac driveway extending not just down the side but round the back of the property too, I guess there is a garage around there but unless you've got loads of cars might be worth looking at removing some of that and replacing with grass, flowerbeds etc..
I'd rip up a bunch of those slabs too, deffo don't need the entire area covered in paving slabs, can easily keep some around the pool or install some new decking etc..
One thing to throw in - check out natural swimming pools and swimming ponds, you can convert existing outdoor pools. With swimming ponds you tend to have shallow planted areas - might need to extend out a shallow area to do this. With natural swimming pools, you have more of a conventional pool but without chlorine.
https://www.clear-water-revival.com/
https://www.naturalswimmingpools.com/
https://swimponds.co.uk/
etc..
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We do have far too much tarmac! There is a garage at the back of the house, which is integral to the building rather than a separate building, and this will be turned in to our kitchen with a vaulted ceiling with bifold doors looking out on to the pool/garden.
Our plan is along the lines of the below, black being patio which is laid flush with the kitchen floor out of the bifolds, green being a lawn laid to the side, with the existing pool deck extended to our western boundary. A fence would be erected across the driveway, in red, allowing access and keeping our garden/pool hidden from the roadside.
I posted the estate agent listing in another thread once we'd agreed the sale, so here it is for this thread too so all photos can be seen, to help visual what our vision is - https://www.livingroom.gg/buy/property/1502
Our plan is along the lines of the below, black being patio which is laid flush with the kitchen floor out of the bifolds, green being a lawn laid to the side, with the existing pool deck extended to our western boundary. A fence would be erected across the driveway, in red, allowing access and keeping our garden/pool hidden from the roadside.
I posted the estate agent listing in another thread once we'd agreed the sale, so here it is for this thread too so all photos can be seen, to help visual what our vision is - https://www.livingroom.gg/buy/property/1502
Another +1 for trying to re-salvage the pool. You get the nicer weather, so would definitely make use of it once the pool and the surrounding stone slabs have been cleaned.
That's a very decent sized garage + workshop, and looks like it also has decent storage in the loft.
I find the layout a bit weird though. It looks like bedroom 3 was put in place where the hallway would join the porch, making you instead have to take a long diversion around the house. It was also a bit strange having a bathroom, cloakroom (toilet?), shower room, and then separate toilet all adjacent to each other.
Any plans for redesigning the layout? Or just modernising the decor?
That's a very decent sized garage + workshop, and looks like it also has decent storage in the loft.
I find the layout a bit weird though. It looks like bedroom 3 was put in place where the hallway would join the porch, making you instead have to take a long diversion around the house. It was also a bit strange having a bathroom, cloakroom (toilet?), shower room, and then separate toilet all adjacent to each other.
Any plans for redesigning the layout? Or just modernising the decor?
Yikes, those carpets!
Have they chopped part of the garden off before selling or something? There seems to be an exit from the pool area to another bit of garden that isn't outlined as being yours above?
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Yes, they've retained a huge amount of the land, they used to be growers so the fields to the rear were covered in greenhouses many moons ago, the garage was the packing shed for the flowers, and the house has a built in cold store room too - they weren't interested in parting with any of the land unfortunately!
We've already had quotes to have the boundary instated and the door way blocked off, we're just going to do the groundwork for the block layer.
Big big plans
Architect is drawing something up for us with our brief in mind. The current kitchen will become a bedroom, the current living room will become a master suite with walk in wardrobes and an ensuite, bedroom 3 will become a family bathroom, bedroom 2 remains the same, bedroom 1 becomes the lounge. The WC/shower/WC/bathroom becomes the entrance hall area.
We've already had quotes to have the boundary instated and the door way blocked off, we're just going to do the groundwork for the block layer.
Big big plans
Architect is drawing something up for us with our brief in mind. The current kitchen will become a bedroom, the current living room will become a master suite with walk in wardrobes and an ensuite, bedroom 3 will become a family bathroom, bedroom 2 remains the same, bedroom 1 becomes the lounge. The WC/shower/WC/bathroom becomes the entrance hall area.
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Yes, they've retained a huge amount of the land, they used to be growers so the fields to the rear were covered in greenhouses many moons ago, the garage was the packing shed for the flowers, and the house has a built in cold store room too - they weren't interested in parting with any of the land unfortunately!
We've already had quotes to have the boundary instated and the door way blocked off, we're just going to do the groundwork for the block layer.
Big big plans
What about a kitchen?
Always interesting to see plans when they've drawn them up for you.
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The kitchen is going in to the garage, looking out on to the pool/garden via lots of glass
Excellent news. Are you doing it yourself or are you getting someone in to do the basic clean? Both the pool and the paving. Quite why the seller didn't bother is beyond me; that paving should clean up very nicely and with the proper tools it's a quick job. In a way you're lucky, because I'm sure the state of that area will have put off a lot of prospective purchasers.
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We're doing a basic clear up and pumping out of the pool, we'll also pressure wash it all down.
We think a new tile band is in order, as well retiling at the edge of the steps, but after an acid wash to the rest of the concrete we think the pool itself is useable/done - just the pump room bits which need replacing, have a friend visiting at 3pm today to advise who owns his own pool company.
The paving we think we'll replace as we're extending the paved area and don't think we'll get identical paving - the coping around the pool needs changing too.
We think a new tile band is in order, as well retiling at the edge of the steps, but after an acid wash to the rest of the concrete we think the pool itself is useable/done - just the pump room bits which need replacing, have a friend visiting at 3pm today to advise who owns his own pool company.
The paving we think we'll replace as we're extending the paved area and don't think we'll get identical paving - the coping around the pool needs changing too.
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I'd be changing all the equipment in the pump room, it will have been sitting with the same dirty water as the pool, cleaning out the underground pipework is going to be interesting!