Our bio heated pool is now also a jacuzzi

[julesandtash]

Thanks to this monster 300lpm pump and filter stack which I picked up at a bargain £55 on ebay, complete with 10m of 1.5" pool hose and three venturi spa nozzles . . . . . . .



Our bio heated pool is now a jacuzzi as well.
Here is the result on the low speed, which is around 400Watts . .


and here is the effect of full power (1.1KW)


Thanks to some remote control RGB floodlights from China, it even looks nice at night....

[Manfred]

Set up for some nocturnal fun eh, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

   

[willbuild]

Think you might need to let some water out before you get in. I think its great, next step is  make the walls and floor in masonry.

[Julian]

Think you might need to let some water out before you get in. I think its great, next step is  make the walls and floor in masonry.

That's a damming comment on Jules's displacement!!!

It does rather look like ET should appear out of the murky atmosphere in the last two photos.

The neighbours are probably wondering what's going on and why they haven't been invited to ......... Answers on a post card to Jules.

[greasemonkey]

You sure know how to live it up. Can you get LEDs actually in the water some how? That would look pretty cool.

[julesandtash]

That would be simple enough, a 12V SELV power supply would make them perfectly safe to be in the water with in the event of any faults.

[Bio-boy]

I love the look of these - whilst still an inflatable it looks like the real McCoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZF5LGQNOhM

[Twenty4Seven]

If you had 3 massive eductors, you could get away with the 400W setting all the time

[julesandtash]

Well it has improved this year. I have been rather busy with some help from others including JulianF

Last year the pool was on the patio which was not ideal. It took up half of the patio and, as the patio slopes for drainage, the pool was lower on one side which was not ideal.

So, I dug out the two terraced areas where our old fish pond used to be.
5 tonnes of soil and a fair few rocks came out of here. All the soil went to a grateful recipient on freecycle




New 8' x 6' steel shed on a concrete base to house the pool plant and also garden equipment and new planter to add some support to the retaining wall (6' concrete blocks laid on their side, all the large rocks dumped inside and topped up with compacted soil.


Original retaining walls with big planter, repaired section and couple of rows of new blocks. This wlll be rendered and/or wood clad soon


6m X 4m X 100mm thick steel mesh reinforced concrete slab poured over the now leveled area. There was no way to get a readymix truck near the back of my place so all of this was mixed in a petrol cement mixer and spread by hand


18' high reinforcing concrete buttress to support the patio retaining wall - we just couldn't resist the hand (and paw) prints.


All the plant inside the shed - oil boiler (runing on bio), expansion vessel for heating circuit, pool filter, multi-port valve, stainless heat exchanger and Certikin swimming pool pump.


View of the pool, concrete base, plant shed and a bit of scenery in the background


The feed manifold and valves for the spa jets, shower head and main return


Those for who all the effort was worth it


Pool in place and running

[Julian]

Nice job ... but strange to see pipes at your house that aren't covered in polymerised cooking oil.

[Head Womble]

You've been a vary busy boy.

But surely it wouldn't of been that much more work to put in a proper pool.

[julesandtash]

That's only because :
1. Most of them are new
2. They are ABS so the oil and dirt wipes off easily
3. Some them get regularly splashed with chlorinated water which seems to keep things clean

Now I just need to build the decking. All of the currently exposed concrete will be covered in decking. The decking will also rise up to the height of the top of the pool around the side where the valves are (there will be small hatches to reach them) and the back of the pool.

[julesandtash]

You've been a vary busy boy.

But surely it wouldn't of been that much more work to put in a proper pool.

It would, I would have had to move at least another 10 to 20 tonnes of soil to get low enough and make it big enough to be worth the effort, plus I was at the level where I was pulling out a lot of rock. With no access for a digger, everything was manual so that would have been a massive undertaking.
I dont see the point in a halfway house type pool (like a 24' X 16' or similar). The one I have is fine for playing around in, relaxing in with a beer or two and generally using as a hot tub.
To properly swim it would need to be about 40 - 50 feet long to be worth the effort.
Anything in between just seems to be a compromise.

[Bio-boy]

How do you make a bio boiler?

[therecklessengineer]

I've got one that needs a new home...


Interested?

(In the interests of full disclosure, it's got oil running directly through the jacket instead of water, and the burner needs some love. And a damned good clean.)