Hidden Pools (1 Viewer)

[gianmarco]

How cool would having one of these be?

Another video

Apparently the original company was bought by Invisipools. I wonder if this is going to become a real thing that spreads.

 

[TheIronSheik]

How cool would having one of these be?

Another video

Apparently the original company was bought by Invisipools. I wonder if this is going to become a real thing that spreads.

That second one turned a woman into a man. I do NOT want that pool.

 

[17seconds]

How cool would having one of these be?

Invented in 1992?

 

[El Floppo]

We're doing one for some mac-daddy clients- but I never got to see the in-action vids like that... very cool.

 

[gianmarco]

We're doing one for some mac-daddy clients- but I never got to see the in-action vids like that... very cool.

What's the cost on it? Size? Company?

 

[Wooderson]

Would great.

I'm having to deal with child safety with my pool. This would be a great solution.

 

[Parrothead]

looks expensive

 

[shadyridr]

Wtf does the water go?

 

[Wooderson]

Wtf does the water go?

Ahhh in the hole

 

[El Floppo]

We're doing one for some mac-daddy clients- but I never got to see the in-action vids like that... very cool.

What's the cost on it? Size? Company?

Ill look into it tomorrow.

 

[NutterButter]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

 

[Sand]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

Multi-functional area. If I was Chet this would be #1 on my mansion add on want list.

 

[El Floppo]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

Multi-functional area. If I was Chet this would be #1 on my mansion add on want list.

Our clients have a giant indoor pool. It's a party/banquet area when not a pool.

 

[SkyRattlers]

As a former pool owner all I can see is the nightmare that keeping the raised pad clean would become. Pools are a lot of work just to keep clean and the chemical mixture right when they normal pools. This looks like a horrible idea.

 

[NutterButter]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

Multi-functional area. If I was Chet this would be #1 on my mansion add on want list.

Our clients have a giant indoor pool. It's a party/banquet area when not a pool.

I guess if you need a banquet area in your house, that could come in handy.

 

[Sand]

As a former pool owner all I can see is the nightmare that keeping the raised pad clean would become. Pools are a lot of work just to keep clean and the chemical mixture right when they normal pools. This looks like a horrible idea.

Money solves all these niggling problems. The people buying these have that.

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

Multi-functional area. If I was Chet this would be #1 on my mansion add on want list.

Our clients have a giant indoor pool. It's a party/banquet area when not a pool.

That sounds awesome.

 

[Wooderson]

As a former pool owner all I can see is the nightmare that keeping the raised pad clean would become. Pools are a lot of work just to keep clean and the chemical mixture right when they normal pools. This looks like a horrible idea.

Would be easy to clean. The bottom comes right up to you. You can scrub it and hose it off. Plus child safe pool. Keeps debri out. Keeps heat in at night.

 

[culdeus]

As a former pool owner all I can see is the nightmare that keeping the raised pad clean would become. Pools are a lot of work just to keep clean and the chemical mixture right when they normal pools. This looks like a horrible idea.

Would be easy to clean. The bottom comes right up to you. You can scrub it and hose it off.Plus child safe pool. Keeps debri out. Keeps heat in at night.

What about the underside of the table? I can imagine algae sticking to the bottom of the table and you would have to shock the #### out of the pool to get it dead. What happens when leaves get under the table? What happens when you get a pool toy under it? Someone's wheatpenny? Lots of issues here.

 

[El Floppo]

We're doing one for some mac-daddy clients- but I never got to see the in-action vids like that... very cool.

What's the cost on it? Size? Company?

Ill look into it tomorrow.

it's existing, fully hydraulic. we didn't and aren't touching it. sorry- no info there... but it was likely custom and giant bags of money.

 

[Wooderson]

As a former pool owner all I can see is the nightmare that keeping the raised pad clean would become. Pools are a lot of work just to keep clean and the chemical mixture right when they normal pools. This looks like a horrible idea.

Would be easy to clean. The bottom comes right up to you. You can scrub it and hose it off.Plus child safe pool. Keeps debri out. Keeps heat in at night.

What about the underside of the table? I can imagine algae sticking to the bottom of the table and you would have to shock the #### out of the pool to get it dead. What happens when leaves get under the table? What happens when you get a pool toy under it? Someone's wheatpenny? Lots of issues here.

Toys wouldn't be a problem. But your right the underside could get nasty. On second thought I'm out.

 

[matuski]

Its like 2 feet deep...

 

[Don Quixote]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

Multi-functional area. If I was Chet this would be #1 on my mansion add on want list.

Our clients have a giant indoor pool. It's a party/banquet area when not a pool.

Principal Partridge thought that was a good idea too until Jimmy Stewart showed up.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Looks tedious.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

Multi-functional area. If I was Chet this would be #1 on my mansion add on want list.

Our clients have a giant indoor pool. It's a party/banquet area when not a pool.

Principal Partridge thought that was a good idea too until Jimmy Stewart showed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rha-6qG4OQ

 

[Freelove]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey. (Unless you just want the kiddle splash pool, I guess. But I think I'll just stick with the plastic turtle pond for junior, thanks. He'll be bored with it in two years anyway.)

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I think this is one of those things were it's cool for the first week. Then, after that, the pool is always down. My family used to have a pool that had a huge waterfall and it was awesome for the first week. After that, it was just a PITA to turn on and off all of the time. The only time we ever used that waterfall was when family visited and wanted to see it.

 

[NutterButter]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey.

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

That can't be what's happening.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey. (Unless you just want the kiddle splash pool, I guess. But I think I'll just stick with the plastic turtle pond for junior, thanks. he'll be bored with it in two years anyway.)

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

I think the water is just under the table. It doesn't get unfilled.

 

[Freelove]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey. (Unless you just want the kiddle splash pool, I guess. But I think I'll just stick with the plastic turtle pond for junior, thanks. he'll be bored with it in two years anyway.)

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

I think the water is just under the table. It doesn't get unfilled.

Get the hell out. It's like straight out of Star Trek, it is.

 

[bryhamm]

Its like 2 feet deep...

Its like not ...

 

[bryhamm]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey. (Unless you just want the kiddle splash pool, I guess. But I think I'll just stick with the plastic turtle pond for junior, thanks. He'll be bored with it in two years anyway.)

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

I don't think it works how you've described. I think the water is always there. When the "cover" goes down, the water is simply "pushed" above it and the cover is now the bottom of the pool.

 

[mr roboto]

Looks cool but I'm having a hard time with the cleaning and maintenance of the mechanisms below the bottom of the patio. I would imagine they've engineered around those but I'm thinking it would get kind of skamky down there.

Also I cant imagine this aging well in colder northern climates that get hard freezes in the winter months.

 

[NutterButter]

Looks cool but I'm having a hard time with the cleaning and maintenance of the mechanisms below the bottom of the patio. I would imagine they've engineered around those but I'm thinking it would get kind of skamky down there.

Also I cant imagine this aging well in colder northern climates that get hard freezes in the winter months.

Rich people just replace the whole thing every spring.

 

[matuski]

Its like 2 feet deep...

Its like not ...

First one is. Maybe less than 2 feet deep.

Then I watched the second.

 

[NutterButter]

Its like 2 feet deep...

Its like not ...

First one is. Maybe less than 2 feet deep.

Then I watched the second.

Its adjustable. You can go from kiddie pool to cliff diving

 

[Fat Nick]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey. (Unless you just want the kiddle splash pool, I guess. But I think I'll just stick with the plastic turtle pond for junior, thanks. He'll be bored with it in two years anyway.)

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

That's not how this works. That's not how ANY of this works.

 

[Fat Nick]

It's basically like the stage they use for the Cirque show "O" at the Bellagio. So basically you have that, minus the jugglers, chicks in tights, and crazy acid-trip scenery.

 

[gianmarco]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey. (Unless you just want the kiddle splash pool, I guess. But I think I'll just stick with the plastic turtle pond for junior, thanks. He'll be bored with it in two years anyway.)

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

I don't think it works how you've described. I think the water is always there. When the "cover" goes down, the water is simply "pushed" above it and the cover is now the bottom of the pool.

Correct. And apparently they have ultraviolet lights underneath to help keep the water clean and microbe free. It's supposed to use far less chemicals. You actually use less water with this because you don't lose it to evaporation.

 

[Fat Nick]

So other than child safety, is there any other benefit? I'd rather look into my backyard and see a pool rather than a stone circle with nothing on it.

You no longer need your bank statement framed on the bathroom wall to tell all your friends know you have more money than you know what to do with.

 

[lod01]

Great idea when space is an issue. Of course space isn't an issue for most people that could afford it.

 

[bryhamm]

Its like 2 feet deep...

Its like not ...

First one is. Maybe less than 2 feet deep.

Then I watched the second.

Its adjustable. You can go from kiddie pool to cliff diving

this. did you watch the whole thing in the first one? It goes 6ft deep.

 

[Guest]

Are the small holes always open on the cover? What if tiny baby seals get in there and you squish them when you lower it?

 

[Quez]

I saw a pool show where they made a pool with an automatic sliding cover you could walk on. That seemed like a much better idea.

 

[El Floppo]

Plus - No chemicals, I guess. Since you just fill and empty it every time.

Minus - 72" of refill every time you want to use the pool? Oy vey.

Looks like more of a "cool" idea than a good one.

That can't be what's happening.

ours has tanks.

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

I don't understand why the bottom has to come up. Wouldn't it make more sense just to have a solid cover slide in from the side?

 

[Wildcat]

I don't understand why the bottom has to come up. Wouldn't it make more sense just to have a solid cover slide in from the side?

The bottom is adjustable so it can be deep or shallow. Couldn't get that otherwise

 

[El Floppo]

I don't understand why the bottom has to come up. Wouldn't it make more sense just to have a solid cover slide in from the side?

that would be cool if it slid over and popped up to be flush with the surrounding pool deck, so you didn't have a tripping hazard stepping down.

but it would also be a pretty big pocket with pool deck somehow floating above it (unless it's subdivided).