Do you own a pool? Seeing as it's a drought and pool owners must get a water tank or a cover, just curious.
So do you?
I do
How deep

Ps this is do you own one currently, not did you.

Nope

We had one but it hardly got used so I had it filled in and now its a big fancy vegie patch...

Quoted from Lawnbowler

We had one but it hardly got used so I had it filled in and now its a big fancy vegie patch...

Woah that would be so cool
did you like fill the pool with soil and plant? the plants would grow so well!!

Quoted from dara

Woah that would be so cool
did you like fill the pool with soil and plant? the plants would grow so well!!

It took 4 truck loads of soil to fill it, the last truck load was topsoil from a leech drain, so everything grows like crazy.  We still have a freezer half full of peas from last year...

I wish I have always wanted to have a pool.
I did have one as a kid (round above ground) and when I got married the second time another round above ground pool.
I have always wanted a beautiful, free form in ground pool with landscaping. Sun lounges and umbrellas, a cabana 'boy' who serves iced green tea with lemon on demand and applies SPF+30 sunscreen when needed. Oh and peeled cold cooked king prawns with my seafood sauce. oops, sorry I went off track there for a while, I was dreaming, obviously!

We used to have these blow-up boats in the 90s that we played in. But other than that we never had a pool.

hehe Suzih that sounds like a nice little dream there.

We have a pool. We had to get the base of pool re-painted again so it all got drained and was completed last week. The guy would come early each morning and with a set of keys make his way to the back and do abit of work on it each day. Last thursday was his last day and that afternoon he just shoved a hose in the pool. We got home that night and we could hear the water pipe but we weren't sure where it was coming and didn't bother going outside. It wasn't until the next morning that we went outside and realised that the hose had been on all night.

Was there a flood? Did it overflow before you discovered it? Any excess water usage you can charge to the workman!

Omg lol that's bad :S

We got a water tank recently so we use that now for the pool

Luckily that friday monring I went out to grab a top off the line around 6am and I saw the hose. Around 70% of the pool was filled. I always thought there was a more complex procedure to filling a huge pool rather then just shoving a hose in there but then again I guess when u think about it theres really no other way is there.

Yes its called the Great Barrier Reef and its in my backyard

Yes

Hardly use it though. It was finished early this year and we got one of those new self cleaning pools. Self cleaning? Yeah right! We (or should I say I) still have to clean out the filters and the basket thingies (there are three of them) every two weeks and it takes over an hour each time (and I always get stuck doing it and I dont even use the stupid thing). Sorry, just taking out my frustrations

Only an above ground splasher pool that gets used for at least 6 months of the year nearly everyday.

We are in the process of organisting  installation of an inground pool within the next month or so, and we are all looking forward to it.

OO cool!I used to have an above ground pool, we used to make whirlpools in it hehe

Can't swim.

And our backyard's too small to fit a pool lol.

Although I had a kiddy pool when I was a baby. (I still have some memories of that lol)

As a kid I always wanted a pool but just didn't have the money but now as an adult I still don't have one and I'm pleases about that , if I got one it would have to be Solar heated so I could use it for longer and fully Auto clean , I might get a pool boy as well, noice, then maybe I'll have one (pool that is)

Quoted from chris

if I got one it would have to be Solar heated so I could use it for longer and fully Auto clean

I have a solar heated swimming pool, and would not recommend it. I think that gas heating is better.

Quoted from chris

if I got one it would have to be Solar heated so I could use it for longer and fully Auto clean

I live in fairly warm climate and find that most solar covers work quite well to heat the pool.  I suppose it's a preference though, I like a pool to be a little cool as it's more refreshing.

No here . . who would have imagined that being a pool owner could become a socially unacceptable thing . . with water restrictions looking set to become permanent and more harsh . .who will be able to fill and maintain a
pool.  

Get a water tank

I wouldn't trust THAT water...

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Quoted from dara

Get a water tank

Good idea, only one problem...you need rain to fill it.  

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I wouldn't use water tank water for use other than the garden and the toilet.

^ why  not ? it is only rain water after all.

Yeah, but if you live in a city, imagine all the harmful chemicals in the water, like the exhaust from cars, the factories, planes, etc. In Europe, the fumes were even worse at one stage, producing Acid Rain. This destroyed big parts of major forests like the Black Forest in Germany.

These days tanks are set up so they let the initial downfall go down the drain because years ago bird poo especially from pigeons contaminated the water and people died from Staph. infections and other related poisonings from the poo. My sister was very very ill after getting Golden Staph that way, but she recovered. The water that goes into the tanks these days is a pure as you can get and I would rather drink it and swim in it than the chemically treated water from our taps.

Whats wrong with filing up a pool with it norman?

when we moved o qld we bought a house with a nice big inground swimming pool.. it used ot be soo deep on me but now it isnt that deep.. like in the deepest part it is still a head bigger than me!! but becuz we have a pool we have higher rates, but we dnt even fill our pool up with tap water we use our tank and we get charged extra!!

Yes
I love it and swim in it every day after getting back from the beach.
We fill it from rainwater tank....

Yes, It doesnt get used much though.

I wish!  I want a really nice inground pool with landscaping and a big fence around it.   We had an above ground pool when I was a kid too.  Yes, we made whirlpools all the time.  And my dad ended up selling it coz he was sick of maintaining it.  (Obviously, we were lazy children).

we have a 12 ft round splasher pool, the ones with the metal frame. it mightn't be flash like the inground ones but it does its job and keeps us cool when it is stinking hot.