Our swim coach has an endless pool in a unit at a local business park & I think she gets substantially better rates for commercial than domestic. I know for example at work we pay 6p per kwh on a £30k/month bill.
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My local triathlon store and coaching group don’t seem to bother heating their endless pool. It’s always Baltic… it feels like 12°C. Perhaps Skippy wants to swim in a bath.
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Net worth only accounts for assets/cash owned outright and not pension either. A net worth that high would be very good for any member of joe public in their 30s.
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Ali Brownlee had one in a garage or something at his house. He used it during covid but not sure if he still has at he does his swim sessions with their ‘other’ Leeds squad. Not sure if he was no longer allowed to train with the GB group or he just doesn’t want to?
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Skipper said he was heating his to 27C and it’s in his garden, so probably not best for heat retention
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His goes up to 11
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Sadly not. 6am M/W/F would be consistently achievable for mature adult triathletes.
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Mine’s open til 11
I’m not sure that a cost/benefit analysis for an endless pool is ever going to work, unless maybe you’re using it for a coaching business and you’re using cheap energy.
It’s not even as if the kids can mess around it while you sit on a sun lounger in the summer 
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I think the main customer base for them would be the people who already have the £3m house and the Porsche and they’re kitting out their dream home gym set-up. The type of people who’ll spend £50k on a new kitchen and then rip it out and replace it every 5 years.
I think most people on here would like the concept of having their own endless pool, but it’s just too expensive to justify.
I’ve never tried swimming in one - it looks like it would make pool swimming even more boring than it already is because you don’t even get to count lengths and you don’t get the potential social interactions of going to the pool .
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So apart from that, it’s all downsides 
I have swum in one a few times - like running on a treadmill it is the same, only different. You can adjust your technique to swim better in an endless pool if you are not careful. The flow makes it like swimming in the draft the whole time, the ‘pace’ I was told I was swimming at was faster than anything I swim in the pool…
In your above example, the £3M house presumably already has a pool. Can’t you buy the water pump bit to create some flow in a standard pool - think that is what I would do with my dream lottery winnings.
As for the energy costs. Building a pool room has got to be cheaper than trying to heat your whole neighbourhood. If you are outside, then only heat it to wetsuit temperatures. I saw a few triathletes bought pools in lockdown, but went for the bungy cord attached to a fence post and no heating wetsuit swimming. Joe must have more money than sense.
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I’ve swam plenty in an endless pool & would have one if money was no object. I’d be swimming with headphones & knocking out 2-3km as a daily routine before work listening to tunes.
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Given that swimming is Joe’s known weakness, you’ve got to question why he would spend £50k on a pool and the apparently use it so little 
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I went to a pool place to check them out and they made it really inviting, which is how I figured out you want to be paying for the heated pool house as well. Then it’s proper lush.
I got through six winters in a freezing garage on the bike, but no way If be getting in a pool in the same conditions.
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Luxury.
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Because it goes up to 11
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Joe should have looked at my old posts about Conrad Stoltz and just dug his own pool.
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That’s weakAF. 
I watched this y’day 
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And costs less to maintain the Joe’s tub 
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if you got PP to do that in the UK you’d have local archeology camped there for about a year before they gave permission to carry on.
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