Imperial Pools contractors offer tips for planning for your swimming pool project
Planning for your swimming pool project is a fun and exciting time for many families. The swimming pool contractors from Imperial Pools understand that while it’s fun, it is also sometimes confusing and that’s why they work with families from the “we have a budget and want a pool” through to the “let’s get the pool project started.”
Pool styles and the decisions you make will run the gamut. You will need to decide on the size, shape, placement, accessories, building materials, colors and more. You do need to know the material you’d like your swimming pool to be constructed from (concrete, fiberglass or vinyl liner). You also need to know how you want tou use the pool:
- Exercise
- Pool parties
- Entertaining
- Combination of the above
Your swimming pool will enhance your family’s lifestyle as long as its intended use is identified. You don’t want to construct a lap pool for exercise when you have long dreamed of throwing neighborhood wide pool parties all summer long or vice versa.
Planning for your swimming pool project
- Exercise pools, also called lap pools, are typically long and narrow. Fun-leisure pools are larger and wider. A lap swimming pool is usually 25 feet long, three and a half feet deep and one lane wide. If you want to do water aerobics, look for a pool that is deeper than a lap pool. You will want to be able to touch the bottom, but not have the water too shallow.
- A swim spa is ideal for those looking for a water workout that incorporates current to swim against. These pools are usually 12 feet long and are equipped with equipment to generate strong currents you swim against to build strength and endurance. This structure is ideal if your yard space is at a premium — the same as a lap pool is.
- Leisure, fun and pool parties are the usual reasons for having a swimming pool of your own. If you’re looking for an inexpensive pool design, the rectangle or oval styles still remain popular and are budget friendly. If you have a large budget you may opt to have your swimming pool consructed of concrete as this offers the most flexibility in design. Don’t forget to consider the accessories you want in your pool. They include: slides, diving boards, waterfalls, sun shelves, etc. The accessories are almost endless. A swimming pool can have a consistent depth or have a shallow and a deep end.
- Don’t forget to look at landscaping as part of the overall pool project because you will spend as much, if not more, time around the pool as you will in the water. The outdoor living space may be the place in which you and your family spend most of your leisure hours in the summer.
- It is the time you spend with friends and family in the pool that makes it memorable.
- If you already have a swimming pool you may want to upgrade and add in a hot tub or spa either as a stand-alone structure or as a build-in to the swimming pool.
Take your time when you’re starting off your swimming pool project. You want to make certain you get the pool of yoru dreams in the budget that you have set aside. Your pool will be a structure that will last you and your family a lifetime.