| In 1968 my parents built an inground pool in the back yard. Our neighbours had an above ground pool put into their yard.
Their pool was nearly as big as ours, oval shaped 10 metres wide and 5 metres wide. It was also 2 metres deep in one end that had the ground dug out a bit to give a conical bottom up the deep end.
The great thing about their pool, 41 years later their's is long gone, but my Dad (aged 82) puts chlorine into his pool every day and twice a day goes out to scoop the leaves off the top. Luckily he has a creepy-crawly otherwise he'd spend 30 minutes vacuuming it every week as well. Nobody has been in the pool for 2 years and you could probably count on your fingers the number of times that it's been used in the last 10 years. |