One other thought is that it's an above ground pool so that if this is your aging in place home, how will you get into and out of the pool if it's above ground?

Can't get over the swirly 70's pimping plastic metallic interiors with lights and sound. Give me a built in basic inground pool ANY DAY....

Nope. For another 10k get a basic in ground pool over a swim spa. When our kids were small it was great.

Honestly, we put in a pool years ago and would not do it at this point in our lives. We are just plain tired of taking care of it. If we lived in Florida we might feel differently because it could be used year round.

It's kind of like a child. It has to be taken care of every day whether you feel like it or not :-)

Lots of factors. We live in Montana and NOBODY has pools. Too short a season and the water needs to be heated. We love water. Live in our hot tub all winter and turn the heat off and use it as a "pool" in the summer.

My wife has been fascinated by the Endless Pools. Got the DVD, saw the thing a the dealer.

So we are building a swim spa room. It will be a pool/tropical getaway room. Decorated in fun tropical theme and a little escape from winter room. We may or may not use it often, but the water is there. Did I mention we love water?

It's recessed into a "vault" so it's easy to get in/out of. We would NEVER do it if it sat on top of the ground. It's TALL and deep.

This is the look we hope to achieve. Lots of windows. Probably more flip flops and tropical look.

--Russ

I have an endless pool (well it's in storage now because we took it out of the house we were living in and we've not constructed the room it's going back in). In our previous house it was just sitting on the basement floor. I built steps to get up to it. We're probably going to build a deck around it when we reinstall it.

The problem with the pool-spa is that if you're actually going to swim in it, you probably don't want to keep it as warm as you'd like to keep your spa. We already had the spa, so we really didn't need to go there.

I think that our EP cost us about $19K all told (pool, the solid surface coping, mechanicals, manual cover like the one in the picture above). If you're going to put this inside, you do want the cover. It comes with one about the consistency of bubble wrap that you throw on top, but the roller cover is much better. Keeps the pool humidity from condensing all over the place.

I installed it myself. The only task that I needed help was to push the assembled side panels up against the wall (mine was in a corner). I had a few coworkers come over for a beer. It took us about five minutes.

I would worry about humidity inside the house. Is that not a problem?

they are just not as attractive as a
pool to lounge around.

Yeah, this does matter to me.

One
other thought is that it's an above ground pool so that if this is your
aging in place home, how will you get into and out of the pool if it's
above ground?

Something I had considered! I wonder, however, if I can't get in/out of the pool, would I be able to get in/out of an inground pool? I do want a tanning ledge on my pool, and that's something that this swim spa can't provide. It's kind of like a child. It has to be taken care of every day whether you feel like it or not :-)

That's probably a fair statement. It's recessed into a "vault" so it's easy to get in/out of. We would
NEVER do it if it sat on top of the ground. It's TALL and deep.

An indoor pool doesn't interest me in the least -- not in my Southern climate -- but the "vault" concept is interesting.

mrspete, I've thought of the same things as you regarding aging in place and your advice and thoughts have been invaluable to me. I'm thinking with an inground pool with a tanning ledge, you can easily be walked into it with some help and a railing. I notice no one seems to put railings in nowadays but I'm thinking, I'd rather an ugly railing than slipping and tripping down concrete stairs.

I am putting in stairs. There are pool chair lifts that can lower you into the pool - I have seen the in hotels that are required to make the pools handicapped accessible - so they could easily be adapted for home use.

And yes- I'd put in a removable handrail down the stairs so that the auto cover would still be able to cover the entire pool.

If you keep the cover on the Endless Pool when you're not actually using it, the humidity is not going to be an issue. Even when I left it open for a while, the major problem is that it's in an adjacent space with a wine cellar and that cooler room was the first to see problems with excessive humidity.

What I did do for the room was to use HardiePanel (cement panels) for the walls in the "splash zone" of the pool (mine was in a corner so essentially both walls the pool touched). This was probably overkill. Everywhere else I used DensArmor+ paperless drywall. Frankly, this is probably sufficient. The stuff is a little different from working with regular drywall (the screws set with a little more difficulty) but not substantially. I used a vinyl beadboard on the ceiling.

The interior stairs on the EP are stainless steel with some antislip stuff stuck to it. We didn't use a railing because mostly my wife (the prime user of the pool) just sort of sits on the edge and steps down (it's only 4' deep remember).

@Ron Natalie

I hope you are still active on this forum. Did you eventually reinstall your endless pool?