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re: swimming pool=not frugal
19 oct 2005
wrote:
>it might be worth it maybe if people actually swam in it but they
>don't... my sister has almost decided to have it broken up and
>filled in.. other than the cost of having it removed her last
>hesitation is that a pool might be considered a big plus in case she
>decides to sell the house... anybody have any thoughts or experience
>related to this situation?
i used to know a guy in bryn athyn pa (a swedenborgian town with no
building codes :-) who built a house on top of a swimming pool. he
filled it with phase-change heat storage salts and used it as a
foundation, then added chainsaw mortise-and-tenon beams made from
telephone poles, 2x6s on edge for stairways, zome rooms, and so on.
filling it in would be a shame, if it can be useful for something else.
how many people want extra basement storage space or a giant wine cellar
or a cool room in summertime? you might make a block wall around the edge
and put a $1/ft^2 plastic film greenhouse on top and add insulation and
level the floor with stone and make a greenhouse or a nice little solar
house with a shallow roofpond under the greenhouse. filling it in could
be easy for the next owners, if they don't like your reuse. they might
even add some sort of liner and reuse it as a swimming pool.
nick
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