Insulating a swimming pool
Mr Sandman
being back filled takes care of the sides, but is there any thing strong
enough to stand the weight of a pool 7 foot deep? I.e., is there a product
that i can install in the hole that i can build the pool on?
any suggestions?
Steve
MikeS
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Few layers of Kingspan?
John
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John
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http://www.poolsandtubs.co.uk/supabloc_insulation.php
Mr Sandman
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Yes around the side i suppose. Underneath i don't know if it'd handle the
compression. Can anyone work out the compressive load of 2 meters of water?
i.e. using supabloc 7, could it cope with the weight?
http://www.tarmac.co.uk/TopBlock/DuroxSupabloc7.aspx
Steve
Andy Champ
>
> Yes around the side i suppose. Underneath i don't know if it'd handle
> the compression. Can anyone work out the compressive load of 2 meters
> of water? i.e. using supabloc 7, could it cope with the weight?
> http://www.tarmac.co.uk/TopBlock/DuroxSupabloc7.aspx
>
> Steve
Huh? That's easy. A cubic meter weighs near as dammit a tonne. (varies
with temperature, but not enough to matter) so you are getting 2 tonnes
per square metre, 20KPa or 1/5 of an atmosphere. 3 PSI even.
What? The blocks are in N/mm^2! that's a barsteward unit if ever I saw
one!
One Pascal is one Newton per square metre, so 7.3N/mm^2 is 7.3MPa.
Those blocks are easily strong enough.
Whether they'll still insulate when they've soaked up ground water for a
couple of years I have no idea.
Andy
John
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Surely a bit dangerous to disregard the forces on the sides. Could lead to a
massive failure.
The Medway Handyman
Isn't earth a reasonable insulator by itself?
Surely the biggest heat loss, and the one most difficult to insulate will be
the top surface?
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John Rumm
> Mr Sandman wrote:
>> Obviously popping some polystyrene board down the side of a pool as
>> its being back filled takes care of the sides, but is there any thing
>> strong enough to stand the weight of a pool 7 foot deep? I.e., is
>> there a product that i can install in the hole that i can build the
>> pool on?
>
> Isn't earth a reasonable insulator by itself?
Not compared to PIR foam... 100mm under the floor slab and around the
edges would make a massive difference,
> Surely the biggest heat loss, and the one most difficult to insulate will be
> the top surface?
You can float a thermal cover on top when not in use. It will actually
add to the water temperature on a sunny day. It prevents evaporation
losses (water and more importantly heat) as well.
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Rod
> On 24 Jan,
>
>> Surely the biggest heat loss, and the one most difficult to insulate will
>> be the top surface?
>>
> Even bubble wrap will reduce this considerably. Trouble is you can't swim in
> it then.
>
> Air temperature should be maintained 1degC above the water temperature to
> keep the air from saturation. Condensation has ruined the structure of many
> 60s swimming pools (which were designed for lower water temperatures than
> that which has since been used).
>
> I think the temperature regulation system has been bred out of people in the
> last 50 years. Swimming pools 50s, 70F now 86F living rooms 50s, 55-60F now
> 70-77F.
>
I got the impression, possibly erroneously, that it was to be an outdoor
pool. In which case I'd guess keeping the air 1degC higher than the
water could be very expensive... :-)
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The Wanderer
> The Medway Handyman wrote:
>> Mr Sandman wrote:
>>> Obviously popping some polystyrene board down the side of a pool as
>>> its being back filled takes care of the sides, but is there any thing
>>> strong enough to stand the weight of a pool 7 foot deep? I.e., is
>>> there a product that i can install in the hole that i can build the
>>> pool on?
>>
>> Isn't earth a reasonable insulator by itself?
>
> Not compared to PIR foam... 100mm under the floor slab and around the
> edges would make a massive difference,
>
>> Surely the biggest heat loss, and the one most difficult to insulate will be
>> the top surface?
>
> You can float a thermal cover on top when not in use. It will actually
> add to the water temperature on a sunny day. It prevents evaporation
> losses (water and more importantly heat) as well.
Yeah, what he said. From memory, mine had a layer of some sort of plastic
foam, about 10-12mm thick across the floor and the sides were covered with
something like extra thick hessian wadding. I think both were put there
more for protection of the liner than insulation. The greatest heat loss is
at the surface, a solar blanket is an absolute must.
--
The Wanderer
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Mr Sandman
<m...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:5022624A9E%brian...@lycos.co.uk...
> On 23 Jan,
> Supabloc7. Expanded Polystyrene or kingspan would be more than adequate
> with >100mm of reinforced concrete slab above it.
>
> The force against the sides at the bottom would be similar.
>
ta for this. So King span is strong enough? cool. Yes it is an out side
pool situated in France. I will be heating it by solar panels and my aim is
to make it useable for as much of the year as possible.
Ok, so i go with king span. Do i go with their thickest sheet or does it
matter much? Obviously i need the pool to be stable over a good few years,
so no movement in the floor is essential. Should i lay them directly on the
bottom of the hole i dig, or add a concrete slab under it as well as the
pool bottom slab over it?
Steve
The Natural Philosopher
> Mr Sandman wrote:
>> Obviously popping some polystyrene board down the side of a pool as
>> its being back filled takes care of the sides, but is there any thing
>> strong enough to stand the weight of a pool 7 foot deep? I.e., is
>> there a product that i can install in the hole that i can build the
>> pool on?
>
> Isn't earth a reasonable insulator by itself?
>
> Surely the biggest heat loss, and the one most difficult to insulate will be
> the top surface?
>
>
The actual m,ass of water in a pool is VAST. it is its own heatbank.
The volume of soil between it and the air is also vast.
Complete waste of time to insulate.
Andrew Gabriel
"Mr Sandman" <sadv...@dcvs.com> writes:
>
> ta for this. So King span is strong enough? cool. Yes it is an out side
> pool situated in France. I will be heating it by solar panels and my aim is
> to make it useable for as much of the year as possible.
>
> Ok, so i go with king span. Do i go with their thickest sheet or does it
> matter much?
Going from nothing to 25mm generally makes a big difference.
Increasing the insulation above that makes much less difference.
By far the most important area to insulate is the top of the
pool, where the warmer water will tend towards, and heat loss
by evaporation and wind-chill is significant.
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Andy Champ
>
> Surely a bit dangerous to disregard the forces on the sides. Could lead to a
> massive failure.
>
effect on the strength of the pool. You'll still need to handle a
lateral force of one tonne (ish) for every running metre of wall length.
I should add I'm not a pool designer, but I do know a _little_ _basic_
physics.
Andy
george (dicegeorge)
i think the kingspan would get damp and not be much use
[g]
Nigel Rose
and new swimming pools, we've just had our's done and got the insulation for
free, they are really helpful our pool heats up so much quicker.
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Nigel Rose"<nige...@hotmail.com>
saying something like:
>Check out www.wanky-spam.com they have government grants to insulate old
>and new swimming pools, we've just had our's done and got the insulation for
>free, they are really helpful our pool heats up so much quicker.
Spamfucker. Piss off.
Dave Liquorice
>> Check out www.wanky-spam.com they have government grants to insulate
>> old and new swimming pools, we've just had our's done and got the
>> insulation for free, they are really helpful our pool heats up so much
>> quicker.
>
> Spamfucker. Piss off.
That's not a very nice thing to call our MP's.
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Cheers
Dave.
Grimly Curmudgeon
<allsortsn...@howhill.com> saying something like:
>> Spamfucker. Piss off.
>
>That's not a very nice thing to call our MP's.
The oik doesn't even have a proper moat.
Dave Liquorice
>>> Spamfucker. Piss off.
>>
>>That's not a very nice thing to call our MP's.
>
> The oik doesn't even have a proper moat.
Or even a Duck House, what is the world coming to if one can't have a moat
and duck house?
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Cheers
Dave.
Owain
> Or even a Duck House, what is the world coming to if one can't have a moat
> and duck house?
It's class envy. You don't hear complaints about pigeon lofts and
whippet kennels.
If the MP didn't have a duck house he'd be lambasted in the press for
making the poor little duckywuckies sleep out in the cold.
Can't find duck houses in the Argos catalogue ...
Owain
Dave Liquorice
>> Or even a Duck House, what is the world coming to if one can't have a
>> moat and duck house?
>
> It's class envy. You don't hear complaints about pigeon lofts and
> whippet kennels.
Has any of our illustrious MPs used any part of their allowances for
pigeon lofts or whippet kennels?
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Cheers
Dave.
The Natural Philosopher
They cant wait to get away from their wurking clarrss roots and pretend
to be toffs.
Owain
> Has any of our illustrious MPs used any part of their allowances for
> pigeon lofts or whippet kennels?
I think pigeons and whippets as acceptable interests for MPs were
abolished by New Labour in 1997 as not being New enough.
The only MP I could find online of the whippet-keeping persuasion is
Canadian.
Owain
kevin jennings
grant too, visit the Thermapool website at www.poolinsulation.com
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