Pool
Building a pool :
You dream to have a pool at home, to enjoy the pleasures of swimming or wading alone, with family or friends … Covered or not, kit, fiberglass, concrete or wood, or classical design, Now think about the possibilities.
The pool kit above ground is the easiest to install and less expensive. Inflatable tubular frame, self, in polyester or wood structure, it has the advantage of being dismantled in the fall. The formula kit also offers models with recessed into the ground. The pools are conventional concrete, at the above-ground or buried, it is a matter of convenience, aesthetics and especially budget. In the form of a shell piece, fiberglass pool can be quickly buried installed once the earthworks completed. Nature, aesthetic, or sublimated with a touch of exoticism, the pool wooden module in all forms and can be custom made. Whatever your choice, consider the nature of your land and its accessibility in the work.
Depending on the dimensions of your pool, a statement of work or a building permit application may be necessary. Since 1 January 2006, the law requires secure private swimming pools to prevent accidents involving children at a young age. To do this, several possibilities exist: the alarm sound, safe, protective barriers, tarpaulins and blankets.
Be aware that experts recommend to clean your pool once a week, skimmers, pumps, filters and robots will be able to help you, think at the time of installation.
Installing a swimming pool :
A dream that is no longer inaccessible. The pools are sure to stick to all land and all budgets. Take your pick. Models, there are all sizes, shapes and at all prices. But installing a pool is not only to buy a pool. It must be heat, cover it, maintain it. Not forgetting to ensure that certain rules of neighborliness.
RATES:
Here’s how to dive in 3049 to € 38,112!
- The above-ground swimming pools, or inflatable kit does not require excavation in the ground, or labor for installation. According to the structure of the basin, rigid or flexible and grandeur, the prices change from 3049 to 7622 €.
- The pool buried kit calls for earthmoving, elements stronger and assembly more difficult. Its cost is often slightly higher in 4573 to € 12,196.
- The polyester piece is made of a single tenant, and polyester resin such as ship hulls. Difficult to climb but strong, it involves the intervention of a professional and can be purchased between 7622 € to 15245 €.
- The swimming pool ready to dive “encompasses different techniques: prefabricated panels (concrete banchi, coffreurs blocks, composite materials or metal strips) or reinforced concrete or cast” gunite “(projected). Prices range from 18,294 to € 38,112 or beyond depending on the structure and size, quality coatings, finishing.
MAINTENANCE :
Two options for heating.
- For a second home, the traditional systems: the electric heaters (fast but expensive), exchangers connected to the boiler house (boiler and powerful swimming pool near the house), hot gas.
- For a primary residence, efficient systems: solar (expensive to install, but free operation) heat pump (expensive to install, but economic exploitation).
The Real Watershed:
The manufacturers also offer “real” kit basins, in terms of dimensions, and equipment, support the comparison with traditional pools.
There are everything from models to be embedded in the soil, wood kits, systems panel propylene within which runs on concrete, shell models in PVC or galvanized steel. The product, shell or modular elements, will be delivered to you in the hole (if any) dug in advance by you. You can then implement it yourself, or install from A to Z by the seller.
Buried kits for a work permit are required, in general one month after filing at the town hall of your place of residence.
Later price is generally more expensive than above ground from 7000 to 25 000. Tax, the largest basins are subject to tax and residential property tax 2 years after completion.
Given the investment, it is better still entrusting the installation to a person with expertise in earthworks, plumbing and sanitation. Otherwise, call a specialist. Ask the seller to show you some of his achievements and do you explain the quote that you will be presented.
Last point: for the buried models, safety standards to be met, under penalty of a maximum fine of 45 000, are similar to all the pools.
Kit buried: advice from the pro
• Look where the sun is up. a pool at the bottom of a dark color attracts and retains the heat, while a light shade keeps the water cooler
• Bring your attention to the material: with basins shell, heat conductive material, you win 3 degrees in water temperature in relation to a concrete structure.
• Check the accessibility of the site for earth-this can add a few days of work per week required for the normal operation of a pool.
• In case of rain delay the work to avoid “breaking” your field.
Pool: safety first!:
Warning, danger! In summer, have a private swimming pool is a real pleasure, but it should not be spoiled by an accident. Or a child can drown in 20 inches of water in less than 3 minutes … For this reason, a law was put in place to reduce the number of drownings in private swimming pools. What you should know.
TO BE :
Drowning is the leading cause of death by accident of life before 13 years. Last year, between 1 June and 30 July, 226 people were victims, in which 91 died.
What the law says :
The legislative and regulatory environment is getting tougher. Since 2 January 2004, according to the law on the reception and protection of children *, the newly built swimming pools, use individually or collectively, shall be provided with a safety standard to protect children in infancy. Since 1 May 2004, the existing pool of seasonal rental housing must also be protected. Finally, from 1st January 2006, all the existing pools must be equipped.
Thus, any owner of an outdoor pool, buried or semi buried (see our article “A swimming pool not (too) expensive? Think of the” kit “), is obliged to implement a security system as otherwise be caught by the law: otherwise, it is liable to a fine of 45 000 and criminal penalties. The pools on raised ground, inflatable or collapsible are not affected.
The safety device may be a shelter, a blanket, an alarm or a barrier. The owner of the pool has the duty to install one of these four devices.