Article in paper about local towns (northern NJ) trying to ban pool rentals after a drowning in one:
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/local/2022/08/08/nj-t…
Ira
As far as robots, don’t want to look at one and the accompanying tangle of tubes floating in the pool. Read an article in “Garden & Gun” awhile back about a landscape designer out of Nashville, IIRC. His comments about pools, make sure they fit the landscape and are a point of interest because you will be looking at it 98% of the time and swimming in it only 2%. Close to spot on even though I use it every day.
I guess I’m different. I didn’t get any fancy rock or water features. I didn’t get any spas. I have a basic rectangular pool. In the winter, I put an ugly safety cover on it. I don’t sit out on my deck admiring a pool. I think all that fancy stuff is to impress the neighbors and guests.
PSU
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There also can be a lot of evaporation. Usually that water isn’t free.
I went all season last year without adding any water to the pool. The benefit of living in an area with rain.
PSU
I didn’t get any fancy rock or water features. I didn’t get any spas. I have a basic rectangular pool. In the winter, I put an ugly safety cover on it. I don’t sit out on my deck admiring a pool. I think all that fancy stuff is to impress the neighbors and guests.
Neither did we, except for the spill bowls which give off a nice background “white noise” like a waterfall. Classic rectangular pool with surrounding stone pool deck that is clean in design. Reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright. While I don’t specifically sit and admire our pool, if something is essentially going to dominate the backyard, it might as well be pleasing to look at and not detract from the surrounding gardens.
Didn’t build it to impress neighbors nor guests. Built it to suit ourselves.
JLC