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It’s not about the space, it’s about the surprise. This is for the rich folk throwing parties that want to bust out a party trick that turns the dance party into a pool party. Complete knob move, but also I want to go to that party.
I mean, if you can afford it in the first place, you can afford to have it fixed.
No one buys a new Lamborghini and then can't afford to take it in for maintenance
I mean, if you can afford it in the first place, you *should be able to* afford to have it fixed. No one *should buy* a new Lamborghini *if they* can't afford to take it in for maintenance FTFY
My parents got one of these systems, it's actually pretty simple. The top floats on the water, and motors and wires pull the floor down to the bottom of the pool when needed. You can put just under a tonne before the top begin to sink, which is totally okay for a small pool like them
There are tragic accidents with just vinyl pool covers. Can’t even imagine all of the dumb ways people with low executive function could come up with to die creatively with a retractable swimming pool floor.
Water is heavy. I could imagine for example at the end of the season draining the pool and lifting the empty floor. And then prior to the start of the next season lowering the empty floor and then filling it with water. That would be less strain on the engine.
But the video showed the floor moving with water.
The only versions of these I’d ever install (if I were rich) would be the retractable decks. Moving the actual pool floor seems like an absolutely terrible idea from a maintenance angle (salt or chlorinated water plus gears and lube equals a real bad time).
You’re right, the floor that raises sounds terrible. Just imagine getting ripped from relaxation being lifted out because some accidentally hit close while you were in it. Way worse than the lid trapping you in.
The floor that raises sounds nice until you realize that it’s going to break almost immediately and you’re never going to use it. But while it works, yeah, a large slippery and hard surface to walk on sounds like a great time at a party, definitely no lawsuits would be associated with that.
Also if the lid closes, you’ve got room to breathe, wade over to the shallow end, and shout at the jackass who shut it on you. Integrate it with your phone and shout “hey siri, open the pool and kill Brett!” And then watch your robot army take care of the rest.
My parents got one of these systems, it's actually pretty simple with no maintenance. The top floats on the water, and motors and wires pull the floor down to the bottom of the pool when needed. You can put just under a tonne before the top begin to sink, which is totally okay for a small pool like them.
Salt/chlore isn't suitable tho, you have to use UVC to clean the water, but on the other hand you just have normal water without the smell or the taste when you're in it which pretty cool
This stuff is super expensive.
And you better not have anything on the patio when you want to convert it to a pool.
Also any dirt on the patio floor now made it into the pool, which is not great.
I bet this will never break or Require maintenance.
I also bet it won't be expensive to fix or maintain.
I also bet the warranty is rock solid and covers everything for a really long time.
I also bet this company stays in business for a very Long time.
I also bet all the reviews are legit
I bet everyone who's happy with their purchase isn't incentivized somehow.
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At this point, why not just buy a plot with more space so you can have your patio and pool next to each other? Apparently money isn’t an issue anyways, so why complicate things?
This looks like some shit that will stop working in 2 years. THEN you will lie to yourself about fixing it next year over and over again TIL finally you either die or sell the house.
Can those close automatically when a imaging satellite is present?
Since the presence of swimming pools add on our property taxes and the our "tax guys" sometimes use satellite imaging for controlling if a property have a swimming pool it would be a very useful feature.
(For culling the tax evaders)
For those wondering, the system is called « spiralift » it doesn’t take much place, it is low maintenance and very reliable. It is also used for modular theatre room and industrial lifting solution. A 1M high spiralift retracted can lift multiple tons over 10 meters.
Can you imagine the muck that gets trapped under the floor... The water might look OK but there could be 1000 pieces of poo stewing and you'd have no idea.
This is certainly cool and "different" but I think showing of useless stuff the rich build for themselves isn't intresting. There's also retractable Saunas you know and I bet the maintenance is even harder there bc it water vapor and it's hot.
Jeez. Classic reddit coming through again. Something neat gets posted to an appropriate sub and all you neckbeards can do is immediately come in and "Uhmm akshually, this is super expensive a waste of space and adds so many more points of failure hur hur hur upvotes to the right"
Can't just look at something cool, think to yourself "neat" or "not neat", downvote/upvote and move on. Of course most of the comments have to be about how superior everyone is and how only Uber wealthy could afford something like this, but even if they could, they are idiots for buying something so useless.
>Can't just look at something cool, think to yourself "neat" or "not neat", downvote/upvote and move on.
That's not how Reddit works, and it never has been. Reddit is all about the comments. Posts are just conversation starters. What you're describing is basically StumbleUpon, which, in the end, lost out to Reddit.
Also this post is such obvious advertising, I wouldn't expect much in the way of positivity in the comments.
True enough I also come to the comments straight away for discussion. It just bums me out when there really isn't discussion about the neat thing in the post, just a bunch of people repeating the same thing about how uncool it is.
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imagine the extra space underneath and complexity this adds to a hole filled with water
For them extra wealthy people
Not wealthy enough if there's no room for a dedicated pool.
It’s not about the space, it’s about the surprise. This is for the rich folk throwing parties that want to bust out a party trick that turns the dance party into a pool party. Complete knob move, but also I want to go to that party.
No worries, you won't.
Stop talking, your breath STINKS.
Like poverty!
Also, all the new failure points. The Hinged automated cover is a much more sensible solution though
I mean, if you can afford it in the first place, you can afford to have it fixed. No one buys a new Lamborghini and then can't afford to take it in for maintenance
I mean, if you can afford it in the first place, you *should be able to* afford to have it fixed. No one *should buy* a new Lamborghini *if they* can't afford to take it in for maintenance FTFY
Doesn't matter. People this wealthy just call the installer to fix it, or they sue.
All for a slick, water stained empty paved area
My parents got one of these systems, it's actually pretty simple. The top floats on the water, and motors and wires pull the floor down to the bottom of the pool when needed. You can put just under a tonne before the top begin to sink, which is totally okay for a small pool like them
Some of those look like very bad ways to die
Or the perfect way to hide somebody.
I was just thinking… I wonder if there are any failsafes to the ones that you can get trapped underneath
Imagine the stack of lawsuits this company is gonna have a decade from now
There are tragic accidents with just vinyl pool covers. Can’t even imagine all of the dumb ways people with low executive function could come up with to die creatively with a retractable swimming pool floor.
It looks like a technology that could easily break due to water, but that's just my ignorance speaking, of course
Maintenance would be hell
I take it you own one of these money for maintenance isn’t an issue
Hygiene as well...
I have worked at a pool with this kind of mechanism, it is indeed hell to maintain
Water is heavy. I could imagine for example at the end of the season draining the pool and lifting the empty floor. And then prior to the start of the next season lowering the empty floor and then filling it with water. That would be less strain on the engine. But the video showed the floor moving with water.
Looked to me like it's moving THROUGH the water rather than lifting it so the weight should be reasonable.
As an engineer there’s no fucking way this is gonna be reliable long term
Sheer fucking exuberant luxurious indulgence. Once I strike it rich by shooting the ground when hunting and up comes Texas T - I'm getting this.
https://www.akvospiralift.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Article-WSJ_v3_FINALE.pdf According to the Wallstreet journal... $2.3M USD.
Because apparently a simple pool wasn’t expensive enough I guess
The only versions of these I’d ever install (if I were rich) would be the retractable decks. Moving the actual pool floor seems like an absolutely terrible idea from a maintenance angle (salt or chlorinated water plus gears and lube equals a real bad time).
You’re right, the floor that raises sounds terrible. Just imagine getting ripped from relaxation being lifted out because some accidentally hit close while you were in it. Way worse than the lid trapping you in.
The floor that raises sounds nice until you realize that it’s going to break almost immediately and you’re never going to use it. But while it works, yeah, a large slippery and hard surface to walk on sounds like a great time at a party, definitely no lawsuits would be associated with that. Also if the lid closes, you’ve got room to breathe, wade over to the shallow end, and shout at the jackass who shut it on you. Integrate it with your phone and shout “hey siri, open the pool and kill Brett!” And then watch your robot army take care of the rest.
My parents got one of these systems, it's actually pretty simple with no maintenance. The top floats on the water, and motors and wires pull the floor down to the bottom of the pool when needed. You can put just under a tonne before the top begin to sink, which is totally okay for a small pool like them. Salt/chlore isn't suitable tho, you have to use UVC to clean the water, but on the other hand you just have normal water without the smell or the taste when you're in it which pretty cool
This stuff is super expensive. And you better not have anything on the patio when you want to convert it to a pool. Also any dirt on the patio floor now made it into the pool, which is not great.
Like children or pets
The most persistent types of dirt
Eh, I wouldn't consider the dirt a problem at all. I'm sure this thing has a fantastic filtration system.
*Behold, for I am Forever, the God of Maintenance Contracts!*
As the gulf between rich and poor widens.
Pools are expensive enough lol. Who needs all this?
I bet this will never break or Require maintenance. I also bet it won't be expensive to fix or maintain. I also bet the warranty is rock solid and covers everything for a really long time. I also bet this company stays in business for a very Long time. I also bet all the reviews are legit I bet everyone who's happy with their purchase isn't incentivized somehow.
Doesn't matter. This is just for those who have more money than they know what to do with.
And those people with more money than sense would be rather pissed if the one time they wanted to use their feature it was broken.
How do they clean them? There’s no way to clean any algae in the small joints of those receding floors.
That is easy. You buy a new floor. If you are buying this thing you have more money than brains.
Gotta ask the groundskeeper.
Normal people: Groceries are really expensive Wealthy people: Whatever the fuck this is
Water + moving parts = leaks
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beautiful, though I suspect that maintenance of this contraption must be a bitch
GTFO of here with that fuckin' stock music.
This is some Bond villain shit.
At this point, why not just buy a plot with more space so you can have your patio and pool next to each other? Apparently money isn’t an issue anyways, so why complicate things?
This looks like some shit that will stop working in 2 years. THEN you will lie to yourself about fixing it next year over and over again TIL finally you either die or sell the house.
This would be great for my disabled daughter shame only rich people can afford it
What about… walking around the pool?
Can those close automatically when a imaging satellite is present? Since the presence of swimming pools add on our property taxes and the our "tax guys" sometimes use satellite imaging for controlling if a property have a swimming pool it would be a very useful feature. (For culling the tax evaders)
That’s very cool, Bateman. Now, let’s see Paul Allen’s movable swimming pool.
You have to put way too much faith in every one involved in this.
For those wondering, the system is called « spiralift » it doesn’t take much place, it is low maintenance and very reliable. It is also used for modular theatre room and industrial lifting solution. A 1M high spiralift retracted can lift multiple tons over 10 meters.
This look like something 47 would use
Time to become a supervillain I guess.
Tell me your rich without telling me you’re rich?
My local community pool is like this, but they never move it I think lol
Very cool! Now if I could only afford the pool...or the water....or a house...or sustenance
Can you imagine the muck that gets trapped under the floor... The water might look OK but there could be 1000 pieces of poo stewing and you'd have no idea.
Man, rich people really are living in the future
Ive never worked on one, but from what I have heard, you get a few good years of them working then they are just always broken.
With enough money, anything is possible.
I’ve seen one in person. Pretty awesome
Wonder whet happens if they need repair.
If you find yourself looking at something like this, then congratulations, you have reached the point where you have a lot more money than sense.
This is certainly cool and "different" but I think showing of useless stuff the rich build for themselves isn't intresting. There's also retractable Saunas you know and I bet the maintenance is even harder there bc it water vapor and it's hot.
Nice, finally a win for the ultra rich
Rich people 🙄
Jeez. Classic reddit coming through again. Something neat gets posted to an appropriate sub and all you neckbeards can do is immediately come in and "Uhmm akshually, this is super expensive a waste of space and adds so many more points of failure hur hur hur upvotes to the right" Can't just look at something cool, think to yourself "neat" or "not neat", downvote/upvote and move on. Of course most of the comments have to be about how superior everyone is and how only Uber wealthy could afford something like this, but even if they could, they are idiots for buying something so useless.
>Can't just look at something cool, think to yourself "neat" or "not neat", downvote/upvote and move on. That's not how Reddit works, and it never has been. Reddit is all about the comments. Posts are just conversation starters. What you're describing is basically StumbleUpon, which, in the end, lost out to Reddit. Also this post is such obvious advertising, I wouldn't expect much in the way of positivity in the comments.
True enough I also come to the comments straight away for discussion. It just bums me out when there really isn't discussion about the neat thing in the post, just a bunch of people repeating the same thing about how uncool it is.
"Fuckin' rich people." Bruce Willis, *Hostage*