Why You Should Have an Inground Swimming Pool

Why You Should Have an Inground Swimming Pool
Robert Morrison
10/17/2014
Updated:
4/23/2016

Inground swimming pools are just another of the wide variety of options available to consumers who wish to style their backyards in any way they wish. The effort involved in installing an inground pool is well worth the wait, a customised style piece that fits into any property and adds tangible benefits to your home and lifestyle.

Most inground swimming pools require a few things before heading to a supplier and making a decision to purchase. For one, the customer must have a fair idea of what they’re after in the product and must look into what sort of pool would suit their backyard.

How the process works?

Essentially after working out what you’re after design wise, consulting councils and utilities in the area before digging, work can begin on your property. Once this has been completed, excavation of the site begins with the removal of soil and rock from the back of your property. The construction phase for a properly excavated and built concrete pool typically runs from 12 to 16 weeks depending on weather and the project’s various components arriving on time.

This takes into account filtering, plumbing and other systems being installed; and the time frame is an industry wide practice for assuring that the pool is assembled in a quality manner.

Types of pool available

There is a large variety of choice in the end product of the inground swimming pool, with a stack of different options available for the consumer. Whether the choice of pool is concrete or fiberglass, what sort of filtration system is in the right cost range, how the plumbing connects to the house and potential tiling available are able add-ons and options available to the consumer.

As per concrete pools, there is obviously the advantage of having something that is a great deal more spacious and is more natural looking. Concrete in ground pools can be built into most environments and can become the vital centre piece for any backyard or property. The spacious capability of the pool means more chance of water activities.

Fiberglass pools are more a reclining option, one with very little handiwork required to maintain. These pools are more ones of convenience, placed in areas in which there’s no need to change the landscape too greatly and are for more leisurely activities.

A further option is vinyl liner pools. With a vinyl liner pool, you have very few limits when it comes to shape and size. With your planning and designing, you can make the pool as deep and as curvy/straight/large as you'd like.

All could make excellent additions to your home – raising property values and allowing a venue and reason to hosts guests.

Why inground swimming pools?

Compared to above ground pools, there are numerous advantages involved in opting for an in ground one. For one, diving is practically impossible for an above ground pool, as an inground pool structure creates more depth.

Above ground pools are often oval or round for unique pressure reasons, which further puts limits of design and choices for the consumer. For similar reasons they require a flat bottom at all ends of the pool, further limiting options and choices such as adding a wading pool or diving end.

Other issues surrounding above ground pools is the exposing to natures elements; wind, rain and sun can affect the materials of the pool structure over time which may lead to costly maintenance work.

Whilst the advantage of easy installation falls in the way of the above ground pools, choice and longevity fall in the favour of the in ground swimming pools.

In summation, do your research. Work out what you as the consumer are after and what requirements a pool needs to fulfill before you make a decision. That said, the options are greater with an inground pool, a purchase that can pay dividends all year round with the right accessories.

Whether the pool is for social, practical or home value reasons, an inground swimming pool is an investment that has the chance to pay off for many different reasons. Become the envy of your neighbourhood or improve the costs and convenience of cooling down in summer for your family, an inground swimming pool maybe just the ticket for you.

 Seaspray Pools offer a myriad of choices when it comes to customizing your own swimming pool. They believe that, as a key feature for your home, a pool should be everything you want and need – from a place to relax, to an exercise sanctuary. Find out more at Google+ or www.seaspraypools.com.au

Image Source: Reigh LeBlanc