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Swimming Pool Size and Shape

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Determing the Swimming Pool Size and Shape

Site conditions and landscape requirements will affect your decision on the size and shape of your swimming pool. But personal tastes and the ways in which you will use your pool are the most important considerations.

Your Personal Needs

The architectural axiom that form follows function applies particularly to a swimming pool’s size and shape. A family of happy frolickers needs a pool with a large shallow area. Lap swimmers require a pool that has a long, straight section with parallel ends. And divers must have a pool long, and wide, and deep enough for safe diving.

If your family includes all of these, choose a swimming pool that can accommodate all types of swimming and diving. For example, the shallow, short leg of and L-shaped pool can be large enough for the frolickers, and the other leg can be long enough for the lap swimmers and, at one end, deep and wide enough for the divers.

In considering the swimming pool options and requirements for divers, become familiar with the needs divers have, talk to a diving instructor will help you understand it better.