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Stay fit with swimming: Build your own swimming pool from raw pool supplies

Author: Theresa Wilson

Swimming is obviously a good exercise for the body. It is a good work out for basically the whole body. It's a nice cardiovascular activity and stretches your legs and thigh muscles, as well as your arms and your entire upper body. It can give you exercise similar to what two or three gym equipment does.



However, you can't always be at the swimming pool everyday. Having swimming as a part of your daily exercise routine is not as cheap as buying newspapers. Commercial swimming pools costs some money, and if you will do this everyday, it sure costs a lot. There may be swimming pool amenities in subdivisions and clubhouses that are free depending on your home owners association, but it sure isn't as nice as you would expect. Sports centers on the other hand may offer you good swimming pool facilities, but it requires heavy pocket.

Because of all these reasons, you probably would disregard the idea of having swimming as a part of their fitness routine. What you do not realize yet is that you can have the swimming fitness routine that you wanted without spending too much. All you need to do is to build your own swimming pool at home.

Seems even more expensive? It actually isn't. Having your own swimming pool at home can provide you all the benefits of being in a swimming complex without actually spending as much. There are a lot of pool stores that provides high-quality but very affordable pool supplies to help you start with your swimming pool. All you need are pool filter parts to keep your swimming pool clean, pool liners for your pool wall, pool heater parts in case you want to install a pool heater, and pool leaf covers to keep it clean from falling leaves whenever you're not using it. It does not have to be very big because what you want to achieve is good exercise. You can choose between inground or above ground pools, depending on your preferences. You can also customize the look of your pool with colorful pool paints and fancy pool liners depending on your taste. After all, it's much comfortable to be at your home doing all those fitness routines.

Building your own swimming pool at home may cost quite a lot at first because you have to buy all the necessary parts for your swimming pool and hire someone knowledgeable to install it. However, after everything's done and you already have your pool built, you won't spend much at all. You can have your daily morning exercise at the pool everyday without paying per hour. It's even less hassle because you can have whatever food you want after each exercise.

It would be a better idea to install a pool heater on your swimming pool as it also has a lot of health benefits. Pool heaters can maintain your swimming pool's relaxing temperature, more like of a jacuzzi or spa. This is a good alternative whenever you want to relax your body every other day in replacement of your body exercise. Warm temperature is good for sore muscles and back aches, and it's a good way to cool down your tired body.

All the health benefits of a swimming pool can be at your home, so why not start building your own swimming pool right now? Pool supplies will not cost much, promise.

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About the Author

Hi. I'm Theresa and I'm a swimming instructor. My husband and I are both into swimming. He installs pool supplies for those who want to build their own swimming pool at home.


Comments

  1. toolvault says:

    Where to get parts to build a solar heater for a pool?
    I was at a pool store and was looking at a solar panel for pools. It had a bunch of very small rubber tubes that were molded together and the ends were connected to 1″1/2 or 2″ ABS pipes. I know were to get the larger pipes but I can’t find the smaller rubber tubes. They are connected in groups of four or five. I know I could buy individual tubes but would rather find the ones molded together.

  2. sr71black says:

    is this for an above ground pool or inground?…they have solar panel kits for above ground pools for 170 bucks and they have a five year warranty….maybe two of those together? or you could just buy the panels from a solar company and install yourself: http://www.swimming-pool-information.com/above-ground-pool-equipment.html about halfway down page….

  3. Propane Guy says:

    Propane has a higher btu value than natural gas. For the same btu output the openings in the burner are slightly larger for natural gas to make up for the difference. In smaller appliances it is not a big enough difference to warrant changing the burner, but pool heaters have large burners!

  4. brad c says:

    I have a pool heater that will not light?
    I bought a house last year and in the fall the pool heater would not light. I replaced the thermel cuppler as a guss this did not fix it. The pilot will light but the burner will not kick on.. i think it could be a gas valve, due to the cost of the part i do not want to guss!
    the pilot will stay lit, when i swich the valve to on it will go out.

  5. Bert C says:

    Double check that the main gas valve has been turned to “On” rather than still in the “Pilot” position from the last re-light. If it is on and you are sure of the thermocouple then it is most likely the gas valve.

    Bert

  6. Chris says:

    Quite honestly Solar heaters are a bad idea. Solar heaters are only as good as the sun around them. In other words, if your roof does not sit in the sun the entire day, or at least during the 8 hours when you would have your swimming pool on, don’t even waste your money. Also…. If you have a stretch of 3-4 days when we get rain showers, you are not gaining any heat from the solar panels as there is no sun to heat up the black panels, so over the course of the 3-4 day span, it might take you 3-4 days just to get back to where you were. At least with a Heat pump, or a gas fired heater, you can still run your heater regardless of the weather conditions and keep your pool at the temperature you want. Also. Like everything else… Solar heaters will continue to heat as long as you run the water through them, with a heat pump you can physically set the temperature you want, or a gas heater you can set it for the desired temperature level. If you go away for a few days, and forget to shut off the water to the solar panels, you could come back to water that you may find to be unsuitable for your likes.

    But as you said… you don’t get direct sunlight on your roof all day, i wouldnt even WASTE any money on a product that is not going to give you the results that you want.
    the other thing with solar heaters like this, if your house if 40 feet from the pool. you are going to need 100 feet of additional plumbing work to be installed. to get the water to and from your roof, and on the return trip to the pool, since your plumbing will be inground, the water will lose some of the heat that it generates from the panels through the plumbing having to travel 40 feet just back to your pool. At least with a heater next to your equipment, your water is only traveling a few feet or a substantially less distance to your pool therefore reducing any loss due to the travel back to your pool.

  7. PoolPipeReplacement says:

    My Laars Lite pool heater was installed with the flue resting directly on the heat exchanger. Is this correct?
    Other diagrams I’ve seen either show a ‘flue collector’ that the flue rests on, holding it several inches above the heat exchanger, of include a tab on the flue that I assume might keep the bottom of the flue opening several inches above the exchanger? This is a laars lite 175 model. I’ve just had to replace the exchanger and wonder if this may be part of the reason that it began leaking after only 6 years.

  8. sandy says:

    Please read this if you are in NY and have a swimming pool solar heater that was installed by a L.I. company.?
    We have a 15X30 above ground pool and would like some info from people who already have a solar heater. How many degrees does the temp of your pool water go up from May-September?

    Our pool is in the sun most of the day. Unfortunately our neighbor’s tree blocks the sun from part of our pool right in the middle of the day. We’re considering a solar heater and don’t know if it would do much to help since our entire roof doesn’t get sun all day (1 half gets sun part of the day, the other half the other part of the day; same with our yard). There are only a couple of dealers on L.I. that install pool solar heaters. The 1 we got an estimate from didn’t do anything to survey our yard to see if it is suitable for the solar heater.

    I’d rather have a solar heater but I’m also strongly leaning toward a heat pump since I haven’t been convinced that the temperature of our pool water will rise more than 4 degrees above what it was last summer (didn’t get above 80 the whole summer.
    Thank you for your response. Many people in NY with above ground pools who use heat pumps and gas heaters also use solar covers when their pool is not in use to keep the heat in.

    I really just want to know who has a solar heater and how many degrees the pool water increases.

  9. dipakrashmi says:

    I do not know about this model but this type of arrangement is done to get the residual heat from the flue gas, to increase the efficiency.

  10. Morgan A. says:

    How do I convert a pool heater from natural gas to propane?
    We have a Minimax 150 pool heater that currently runs off of natural gas. We would like to convert it to use propane. Originally we believed that we would only need to replace the orifices. Recently, however, we contacted a Minimax part dealer who stated that we would need a new burner, valve and orifices to the tune of 400 dollars. Is this correct and if not what do we need to do to convert our heater to use propane?

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