rrfr wrote:
All good thoughts on pool, will widen and explore cost of gutter.....but nobody has a swim spa of any brand that they would recommend as an alternative to an actual pool ?
I have no swim spa recommendations but wanted to throw out one other thing for your consideration. While perhaps this will not matter to you, I personally would miss the camaraderie of the other swimmers at my club. Sure, you can always invited people to swim at your pool but this will only include people you know reasonably well. You will miss the random 4:15 500 swimmer who shows up and swims 1:05/100 scy at 10 spl just warming up. You will miss the D1 runners who cross-train with swimming. You will miss the 10-yr old Asian girl who swims 15 x 200 IM, all by herself, 3 afternoons per week. In sum, I think you'll miss a lot by having your own pool. Just my viewpoint but I would never build my own pool b/c of all the swimmers I would miss. I like watching good swimmers swim and I would miss that staying at home in my own pool.
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