I'm currently in the process of putting together a committee to start planning for a new aquatic facility in our area. I'm asking all of you to help me make a list of the things that should go into a facility if you had unlimited resources and space. I want to start my project with the biggest dream possible and then have it brought back to earth by money limitations, etc.
What I'm looking for are comments about our own facilities features that work well, that you would never do again, that you would change, that you would do differently, and what you wish you could have. I want to hear from experience.... What makes your facility work so well or why you pool is the arm pit of pools. Here is an example:
I've learned from one pool that they should have built a permanent wall between their lap pool and their zero depth entry rec. pool. The building is so noisy they can barely run a meet if people are in the recreation pool. Don't leave anything untouched (pool size, deck space, configuration, locker rooms, office space, outdoor facilities, observation seating, etc.)
Our initial plan is to build a 50 meter indoor, with adjacent recreation pool, and an outdoor splash area for the hot summers. We are one mile above sea level and our winters go from October to May. I'm hoping all you can help with the things you have all learned from the many years we have been swimming.
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Our pool has a movable floor that can be set anywhere from a few inches deep to several feet deep. This allows one end of the pool to be used for little kids, or water aerobics or fast competition. It is always being moved up and down for one use or another. I think it greatly helps achieve maximum utilization of the pool. I don't know how much it adds to the cost.
Warning: the movable floor in our pool is a solid surface, at a nearby pool they have a movable floor but the surface is a grid of holes. They don't move the floor much anymore because all sorts of dirt and stuff falls through the holes and accumulates under the floor, then when the move the floor this stuff gets flushed out and floats around for a while which apparently is pretty gross.
Our pool has a movable floor that can be set anywhere from a few inches deep to several feet deep. This allows one end of the pool to be used for little kids, or water aerobics or fast competition. It is always being moved up and down for one use or another. I think it greatly helps achieve maximum utilization of the pool. I don't know how much it adds to the cost.
Warning: the movable floor in our pool is a solid surface, at a nearby pool they have a movable floor but the surface is a grid of holes. They don't move the floor much anymore because all sorts of dirt and stuff falls through the holes and accumulates under the floor, then when the move the floor this stuff gets flushed out and floats around for a while which apparently is pretty gross.