There was an unquenchable quantity of curiosity about our Soake pool – and I get it, it’s not a standard pool. So I hope you might be thirsty as a result of at this time you’ll see and examine each element. It’s right here, put in and completely superb, exceeding our expectations which had been very excessive. We’ve used it virtually each day because it’s been completed, and plenty of, many nights, too. In case you are out there and need to know deeper particulars concerning the set up and design course of be sure to take a look at half #1 HERE). In the present day you’ll get the afters and all my ideas, emotions, and something I might have executed otherwise.
We put in in February and needed to end all of the landscaping round it earlier than we may use it, however when June rolled round it was executed and prepared for us. And now that we’ve shot it it’s time to share it with you. Summer season #1, Soake pool data coming at you. All of your questions answered 🙂
However first a enjoyable little teaser video for the complete lengthy type YouTube model! (Simply anticipate the quick advert to play)
Why Did You Get A Soake Pool As a substitute Of A Massive Regular Pool?
Sure, that is the principle query and I’m joyful to interrupt it down. Our Soake pool could be very particular for the next causes:
- We are able to use it 12 months spherical. That’s proper, it’s a pool in the summertime and generally is a sizzling tub within the winter. This was the one cause we even thought of a pool – one which can be utilized 12 months spherical.
- It’s a smaller bodily footprint – ought to that be what you need. It’s filling a gap (ha) for lots of us who both don’t have the true property for an enormous pool or don’t need to use the true property for one thing so massive that you simply would possibly solely use a couple of months of the 12 months.
- It’s sufficiently big for us to play in through the day and but sufficiently small to warmth up shortly and effectively to turn out to be a sizzling tub at evening. Let that sink in a bit. Because of this the children (and us) can play through the day (temp stays between 75-85 levels with out heating as a result of it’s so heat proper now) after which ought to we need to say, have adults solely, it heats up 10 levels an hour. I actually didn’t predict that we might be so obsessive about this pool. I believed this was extra for our youngsters or the new days that we need to cool off with buddies between pickle ball units. I’m dreaming of so many fall nighttime events with buddies and sure, even winter sizzling tub nights.
- It’s designed and constructed off-site – which means you don’t want a pool contractor and it’s shipped to you on a truck. On it’s personal it’s a easy, high-quality design and development, and nails its principal jobs (with actually tasteful and trendy tile choices). It’s not plug and play like a free standing sizzling tub – which I’ll get into later – however when you’re like me and designing an enormous pool feels daunting (perhaps since you’d make it so costly like I do every thing) it’s a wonderful choice.
- With a smaller footprint there’s merely much less danger and price – A good friend of mine was telling me horror tales of their enormous pool – how lengthy it takes/costly it’s to warmth, how costly it’s to keep up, how when the pool doesn’t work neither does the new tub, rendering the entire enormous factor moot. He joked that he desires to farm Tilapia in it as a result of it simply sits there empty now that the children are grown! They noticed this and mentioned they wished so dangerous that that is what they’d. Smaller is simply simpler and extra reasonably priced to handle in each manner.
How Massive Is This Pool?
Our pool is 7′ vast and 13′ lengthy, and the depth is round 60″ (water depth a bit decrease). There are another choices which can be smaller. I inform most individuals it’s like the scale of a big lounge rug, however there’s nothing “kiddie” about it.
Do Children Actually Play In A Pool This Dimension?
Sure. Our youngsters are 7 and 9 and so they adore it, particularly when buddies are over. They’ll swim, however also can bop off the underside and simply attain the perimeters. They’ll soar in (however clearly no diving). They’re nonetheless supervised and might’t uncover it with out us being on the market, however level is it’s sufficiently big for them to have a whole lot of enjoyable. We’ve had eight youngsters in right here, like a playpen, lol. We knew that we had been getting a small pool, so it’s a unique expertise than a giant one clearly. This has to make sense for you and it did to us.
Does It Have A Pool Cowl?
Sure. We opted for the electrical security pool autocover which opens and closes with a toggle change off the aspect of the pool home (too excessive for teenagers to achieve for now). The duvet itself is housed underneath the wooden planks behind the pool. You may see all of it within the video:) The electrical one does price considerably extra, FYI, between $10-$12K relying in your installer. It’s great and feels very protected.
What Sort Of Pool Is It? Salt Or Chlorine?
This pool is saltwater however a saltwater pool truly continues to be a chlorine pool as a result of you generate chlorine from the salt by way of the app (sure, there’s an app). That’s a typical false impression with saltwater swimming pools basically. It’s simply that with a saltwater pool you retain the chlorine ranges low which we love.
It additionally has jets, that are enjoyable to take a seat subsequent to when it’s warming up. One factor I didn’t suppose I might take pleasure in is that Brian modified the sunshine colour from the app on his telephone whereas we had been partying in there the opposite evening, which was a enjoyable little shock. We additionally had glow at the hours of darkness pool balls so…
Can It Be A Chilly Plunge In The Winter?
Sure, as a result of when you don’t warmth it and it’s chilly outdoors it should drop to the outside temperature (they suggest it at 52 levels Fahrenheit for a super chilly plunge:)). We’re probably not going to make use of it for that as we’re getting a separate chilly plunge and suppose we’re going to use this extra as a sizzling tub through the winter. However even in freezing climates, it’s completely nice to make use of all 12 months lengthy! Soake simply recommends preserving the pool at 70° minimal throughout freeze temps and naturally all the time preserving the water transferring. Should you’d quite not use it within the winter you’d simply drain and winterize like a standard pool.
Do You Sit, Stand, Swim Or Float On this Pool?
All the above. There’s a step and a bench that three folks may sit alongside, however because it’s underneath 5′ deep it’s straightforward to face and it goes as much as my neck (I’m 5’3″). It’s simply far more enjoyable to hang around in right here than a giant sizzling tub. Clearly, I additionally float round on floaties and browse or hang around with buddies. My entire staff got here up and we sat in right here for 2 hours, all of us simply on pool noodle hammocks and it was SO FUN.
Who Installs This Pool? Can You DIY This?
Except you might be extraordinarily within the know on development stuff (or a contractor your self) you’ll want to rent out and have a contractor aid you. We employed our panorama contractor to execute it as a result of he’s executed a whole lot of on-site sizzling tubs and water options. You want somebody to ebook and handle the digging of the opening, again filling it, electrical energy, fuel, filter, and so forth after which set up the hardscape and pool cowl. It comes on a flat mattress, then will get craned in – all stuff you possibly can handle if that is your wheelhouse. I used to be grateful that Dan’l was dealing with all of it (he runs Northwest Native Landscapes which generally does landscaping however now that he’s executed this as soon as he’d be an incredible useful resource in Portland). So sure, you’d be paying a contractor and subcontractor along with the price of the pool. All the pieces provides up in development tasks, which I all the time suppose is useful to remind us all:) However you don’t want a pool contractor, simply somebody who understands mechanicals and has contacts with subcontractors.
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How Lengthy Does It Take To Order And Set up A Soake Pool?
Should you time it proper and don’t have a ton of different panorama work, the set up generally is a matter of a pair months. Our undertaking was enormous, as we had been doing your entire property without delay, so we opted to drop it in throughout winter, with the thought to complete every thing round spring in order that the entire house may very well be executed by summer time. That labored and by June we had been swimming fairly. In case you are simply carving out a spot for Soake and also you aren’t doing a undertaking of our scope it may go a lot sooner. For example, when you had a big garden close to the again of your own home, already flat that was straightforward to entry for digging, trenching and craning, it may very well be fairly darn straightforward.
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How A lot Does A Soake Pool Price?
They sometimes run $45-$48 (if the autocover is concerned) and relying on what dimension you select, tile and add ons, that value can go larger. This doesn’t embrace the hardscape, contractor/sub contractor charges. Oh, and transport can add an extra $10k. In case you are nearer to New Hampshire (the place the corporate is) it will likely be extra like $2k, however far west like us in Portland, it’s extra like $9k-$10k. Nevertheless, IF they will get two on a truck going to your space, the transport price is shared. So relying on the place you reside it’s probably rather more reasonably priced and sooner than an enormous fancy pool, however once more it’s not an inexpensive fiberglass product. It’s nonetheless a top quality, luxurious product, and priced accordingly. So if what you might be actually wanting is a giant outdated pool for teenagers to play in you would possibly simply need to get a giant fiberglass pool (which I feel are cheaper). We particularly needed this 12 months spherical product, so I reached out and negotiated a partnership, leveraging pictures, video, advertising and marketing and PR providers, which is a typical a part of my enterprise. We incurred all of the labor prices after all, and now that I’ve skilled it for a summer time I’m so joyful to say that this may be completely value it.
What Would I Do Otherwise?
- If I may return and do all of it once more I might have began the method earlier to keep away from the wet climate/mud which set us again. Had we ordered it in early summer time (2022) to reach and be put in in fall, we might have averted the 30″ of mud that we encountered on the hill as much as the pool space, (resulting from weeks of extreme rains within the winter). The mud and hill mixture made the set up tougher than it will have been some other season. We had to make use of a smaller crane to make the activate our property and the smaller crane couldn’t crane it far sufficient from the underside of the hill to plop it in. So sometimes you possibly can crane over a home from the road – it’s fairly darn unimaginable.
- Our tumbled bluestone hardscape conducts a lot warmth that we are able to’t sit or stroll on it on actually sizzling days (within the afternoon). This isn’t Soake’s product, that is what we selected to work with our blue flagstone pathways. It’s VERY fairly, however y’all it holds a lot warmth. This is the reason we’ve three umbrellas to create shade not just for the children within the pool, however to allow them to sit round it.
- I might select a bigger stone that would cowl the pool cowl motor. I didn’t know that the fabric wanted to be 24″ deep and our stone wasn’t, so we needed to make a game-day resolution. The stone simply didn’t come sufficiently big (however I may have waited and shopped round to search out one thing that built-in higher). Dan’l and his staff troubleshooted and constructed this wooden cowl which could be very effectively executed and works completely, but it surely’s actually darkish and extra orange than I’d like. Now that it’s all executed with a whole lot of different picket components, it bothers me a lot much less.
How A lot Do You Love It?
WE LOVE IT SO MUCH. It’s merely great and so excellent for our wants and desires. It checks extra containers than I believed potential, plus it’s actually fairly to take a look at! It’s such a beautiful, pleasant visible function and mixed with the farm vibe, with the wild grasses and cut up rail, nonetheless feels appropriately understated. We adore it a lot and really feel so grateful and grateful to stay right here.
It’s simply so enjoyable for the entire household and maybe even the neighborhood. Since swimming pools are manner much less of a factor right here than they’re in lots of different components of the nation we get to be the home that folks collect at which makes us VERY HAPPY. After working so arduous on this property for therefore lengthy (with so many great groups of individuals) I really need it to be loved so much, by many, for years and years. Particularly these teenage years – “Hang around right here!” says this massive sizzling tub:)
Oh, and I do know I didn’t actually speak concerning the decor/furnishings as a result of it’s not the official styled reveal however I’ve to shout out these teaokay chaise loungers from Neighbor. We reached out to see in the event that they had been taken with gifting and man am I glad they had been. We love them! They’re so effectively constructed, cool with out trying fashionable, and simply actually snug. Extremely suggest.
Don’t neglect to observe the complete devoted video HERE the place you possibly can see our Soake pool in motion. And you probably have any questions we’ve requested a Soake customer support individual to reply them within the feedback.
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