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