This topic was a popular request on earlier comments.
Swimming pools have become a suburban status symbol. Not only are they glamorized in movies and tv shows, but youtube channels such as Architectural Digest showcase envy inducing swimming pools in the backyards of celebrities signifying luxury, leisure and glamor. To the rest of us, they are a symbol of prosperity and an escape from the daily grid.
But behind all the glamor, pool construction is actually very disruptive, it’s a laborious undertaking, and is pretty expensive. So when shipping container pools come along promising an all in one solution, where a box holding a pool and all the pool equipment can be simply delivered to your site, connected to your water supply and set up in just one day, it seems like a very appealing alternative. This shipping container pool company based in Australia repurposes both 20’ and 40’ containers. The containers are cut in half, reinforced with steel. The heater, pool pump, sand filter and salt chlorinator are tucked away on one side of the container. Steps lead up to a landing, allowing easy access into the swimming pool. The inside of the pool is made of a molded fiberglass shell which is smooth and nonporous. You can customize your shipping container pool on their website by choosing three different fiberglass shell colors and six different outside polyurethane paint colors. You can choose a standard chlorine pool, a salt pool or a mineral pool. They also say that if you are moving houses, their pools are fully portable.
The biggest advantage of a shipping container pool is the ease of installation. It’s a complete product, ready to be used. It’s not as disruptive as traditional pool construction, You don’t have to excavate earth and build retaining walls which can be very tricky when you’re on a sloped site. If, for some reason, you wanted to transfer your pool to another location, you could rent a crane and put it on a trailer to a new site.
But let’s look at all the disadvantages of it. First off, the reinforcement. The walls of the container are made of 3/16” sheet metal which cannot withstand the outward and downward force of water. Also, when these containers are cut in half, the corrugated walls are going to flex because they aren’t tied to the structural frame any more, so the top rim of the container has to be reinforced.
Waterproofing is another issue. Shipping containers are designed to keep water out, not to hold water inside. To make it waterproof, you can use a fiberglass insert like we saw earlier, or the container can go through an expensive conversion process where another layer of steel is welded to the corrugated walls. A pvc liner or a cement plaster lining is applied to the new steel walls. This extra layer also adds a considerable amount of weight to the pool so the foundation slab that it sits on has to be designed accordingly.
Next up, insulation. As we saw in the earlier video, there is no additional insulation around the fiberglass insert. If your shipping container pool is temperature controlled, it’s going to lose a lot of heat through the side walls. The earth surrounding inground pools provides more insulation than people realize and without it, the perfect water temperature can be difficult and expensive to maintain. Shipping container pools are best used over ground because steel can corrode underground. If you choose to place these pools underground, you have to pour retaining walls and a slab to keep the earth from pushing the flimsy corrugated steel walls in. At that point, you might as well have a typical inground pool.
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