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26 Chatham Hill in East Hampton is the house to keep you fit and trim! Oh, and live in small town USA in style.

Here are a few words from my sellers as the ask and answer: Why an Endless Pool?

From the swim training perspective, we purchased a premium Endless Pool, so you can be sure it will meet your needs.  Two feet wider, one foot longer, and twelve inches deeper than the standard Endless Pool, the surface area will be more than sufficient for your training needs as well as for playing games of Marco Polo with the whole family if you have young children.  Water area dimensions are 15’ long by 9’ wide.  Water depth varies from about 24” if standing on the water current return ducting (great for smaller children to stand on if wearing a life jacket or for sitting on with friends), to 39” on two small ledges, one at either end of the pool, to 51” deep in the large center area.  We chose the optional 6HP propulsion unit, what this means to you is more flexibility in swim speed currents…from barely a trickle to approximately 55 second 100-yard equivalent times (a digital display shows the current speed, a water-proof remote control adjusts the current).  Bottom line, you are not likely to exceed the capability of this pool unless your last names happens to be Phelps.  In addition to training, my children love to play in the current and body surf up and down the pool.  Winter pool birthday parties have also been a great hit.

So what about pool maintenance?  In a word, easy.  Because the pool is covered when not in use and in an enclosed room, the only dirt that will get into the pool is what you bring in with you…so, if you wipe your feet before getting in you will wind up vacuuming the pool out about once every two months.  Water chemistry is a snap.  Because no rain water gets into the pool, the chemistry stays rock steady.  For best results, we’ve found that pouring about four ounces of standard chlorine bleach into the pool each day maintains optimal chlorine levels and results in no chlorine smell when exiting the pool, unlike what you’ll experience at near super-chlorinated public pools.  We buy chlorine in bulk at Target, easy day.  After using the pool, we’ll pour anywhere from eight to twelve ounces into the pool and mix it in with the current.  Going away for a week?  No problem, use the vacation as an opportunity to super-chlorinate the pool to help “burn up” any particulate in the pool with 36-40 ounces of bleach.  Semi-annual maintenance consists of changing the pool filter, which is located in the basement pool utility room.  Changing the filter will take less than an hour and about thirty minutes once you get proficient at it.  Endless Pools has a toll free help line, which will transfer with the pool, should you need any assistance of have questions. The utility room contains the filter pump and water heater unit as well.  These are set and forget items.  The filter pump runs on a timer and the heater has a thermostat; if the water is below the set temperature, the heater kicks on, as soon as the water is at your desired temperature, it shuts off. 


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What about humidity, safety, and splashing concerns? 

Let’s start with humidity. We were skeptical of Endless Pools claims, but the safety cover controls 99 if not 100% of humidity when closed…so no heavy air in the room. We actually installed a drain pipe for a dehumidifier to be placed in the room…we never needed it. While the room can become humid while swimming, it generally won’t. Open the windows in the summer or use the installed exhaust fan if need be, most of the time you won’t need it. Because the house gets so dry in the winter, we’ve found the pool actually helps to keep the house less dry in the winter. Instead of using the exhaust fan, which we seal in the winter, we just leave the interior sliding door open after a swim. On that note, the pellet stove in the room will not only heat that room, it will nearly heat the whole house, using thermostat mode, until the exterior temperature falls below 50 degrees or so. We leave the room door open as well as pulling down the tops of the kitchenette windows to facilitate air flow. Our next project would have been to install a window pellet stove in the bonus room to enable us to heat the whole home with inexpensive pellets in even the coldest of weather. Of course, the installed dual-zone oil-fired furnace will keep the house as toasty warm as you like it. Regarding the pellet stove, we use anywhere from half a bag to one-and-a-quarter bags a day depending on the outside air temp. If going away in the winter, close the pool cover, place the additional insulation pads we purchased on top of the cover, leave the pool doors and windows open, and turn the first floor zone oil heat on. The pool filter system will continue to run and the heater will run as it needs to to keep the water at your desired temperature.

 

 
premium endless pools

SWIM TRAINING IN AN ENDLESS POOL is like swimming in open water – no turns, no shared lanes, no stopping - no matter the weather! By eliminating turns you get a better understanding of your true open water endurance.

What about pool safety? I weigh about 175 pounds and have personally rolled out onto the middle of the security cover to test the claim that it will hold a grown man. The cover also has a security lock at the far end of the pool, so curious children will not be able to roll back the cover even if they were strong enough to operate the easy to use hand crank. Closing the cover is a one-person operation that is best accomplished when exiting the water using the pull cord attached to the cover.

What about splashing? An Endless Pool is not a “cannon ball” pool. No diving, ever. With three children and two adults in the pool, we will not spill a drop. To avoid spillage, don’t push across the pool in ways that create big bow waves that go up and over the edge (underwater push-offs are fine, no bow wave) and don’t slap-kick the water. Children of your friends that have not learned how to swim in the pool, will spill water, but we planned for that. There are three floor drains that we squeegee any spilled water into. The dry-wall used was bathroom style dry-wall and has been painted with a semi-gloss paint. You’ll notice that the tile nearest the pool extends up the wall and the window bases are composite, so no mold. Again, adults will not spill a drop. When children splash water out of the pool, the room’s built in design features make clean-up a snap.

Visit www.endlesspools.com for additional details on the pool.

 

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Comments (1)

Mary Macy
Top Agents Atlanta Metro - Roswell, GA
Top Agents Atlanta Metro

Wow, that looks like a great investment and a great way to stay trim and fit, guess I would have to leave Atlanta to buy this HUMMMM!!!!  Thanks for sharing, great pool

Dec 18, 2011 02:56 PM