Pros and Cons of Having Your Own Pool At Home

Posted by Casey Hess
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Apr 8, 2010
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Having a swimming pool in your backyard can be a dream come true. At a higher percentage, owning one is a great asset, but behind that good shot is the hassles that sometimes swimming pool can cause you.

If you spend your summer getting attached with the water, playing beach balls, walking under the heat of the sun, and even cuddling with your baby while on swimming, you start to flirt the idea of putting up one of your own in your backyard.

Swimming pools are a source of summer fun, amusement, and recreation for your kids, and a plus factor in your property. They are also expensive to install and maintain, time-consuming, and a safety concern. So before you sign off on plans to install a backyard swimming pools make sure to consider the pros and cons for your family.

1. Your house becomes fun central with a swimming pool - As a pool owner, be prepared for your neighbors and your children friends to be lining up at your door with goggles and beach towels in hand. Having your own pool is an advantage most especially if you have teens and older children and you are looking for a way to keep them home.

2. A pool helps your child to develop his swimming skills - Having a swimming pool in your own backyard allows your children to have a regular exposure to the water, which improves their confidence, swimming skills, and safety. According to a certain source, one factor to a child's swimming ability is based on how often they are in the water, and how frequent they are using and practicing these swimming techniques. Like any other sports, the more often a child swims, the quicker he masters the tasks, improves his techniques, becomes more confident in the water, and is a better safer swimmer.

3. Health, Sports, and Fitness Benefits of a Pool - No matter what type of athletic games that your family is interested in, swimming is still a great way to stay in shape. Swimming is highly aerobic, a good cardio workout, and is easier on the muscles, joints, and bones, than running or biking. Even when the children are in a pool, no matter whether they are just throwing the beach ball back and forth, they are still doing exercise.

4. Safety and liability concerns of a swimming pool - Putting up a pool in front or even at your backyard carried a big responsibility of backyard safety. Before installing a pool, you must be aware of local requirements for fencing. A responsible pool owner goes beyond legal requirements. You should make it a point that your pool is protected by a high fence with a locked gate. Install pool alarms and door alarms that you can set at night to prevent toddlers from going into the pool during the night.

5. Swimming pool expenses - The cost of installing a pool ranges from highest to lowest. Having a pool installed is just the beginning. Maintenance and other sub expenditures follow like chlorinator, pool maintenance, pool safety products and pool cleaning.

6. Your time at your pool - Pool owners turn out to be a part-time pool cleaner and full-time lifeguards. You will end up finding yourself spending part of every day either cleaning the pool, making the necessary maintenance of the pool water, or even keeping an eye on your children.
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