Water From A Tanker

[sarahandmark]

Can anyone tell me where we can get water from a tanker to fill up our pool. Not sure where to start looking really, but after reading the threads on pools on here, we thought it best to buy the first lot!

Thanks for your help
Sarah

[Aretina]

Hi Sarah and Mark

We got our pool filled by the local water company, very expensively. The price of the water 200 euros, the price of the transport - horribly expensive.

Our esteemed geometra decided that our own spring water was the 'wrong sort' of water and that it would fill the pool too slowly thereby allowing water marks to build up the sides.

It was worth it though, you can see the result on our website.
Good Luck

[juliancoll]

If you don't mind me asking, how many litres did you buy for 200 euro?

[Sally Donaldson]

I have friends with a swimming pool in France which they actually fill from their own "source" No problem with watermarks.

[Charles Phillips]

Aretina has hit the nail on the head. The transport is the costly bit - the water (even if it is potable, but you should make sure the water authority are okay with you using potable water for a pool, sometimes they are, but if they are facing a shortage they may say no). So, ask someone local - probably the excavator driver who dug your pool would be a good choice - for the number of the most local tanker driver.

There is nothing usually wrong with spring water, although the issue of how quicky it comes out of the spring is a serious consderation when you need to fill a pool, and your geometra could well be offering very good advice. (It depends also on the type of liner, some are willing to put up with a slow fill rate, but others are much more susceptible to damage if not filled rapidly.)

[anne2]

[quote=Charles Phillips;92284]
There is nothing usually wrong with spring water,/QUOTE]

..............but could how hard it is be an issue when filling a pool? Our well water has been tested and is at the the very upper limit of what would be considered potable - the resultant limescale is a problem and as parts of Italy are known to have very hard water perhaps this is why it is best not used to fill a pool? I have no idea, but when we were discussing putting in a pool we were advised on more than one occasion against using our own water for this reason.

[Charles Phillips]

The hardness of the water, (and in fact other shortcomings, such as a lot of suspended solids aka mud!) can make it inadvisable (though not completely impossible) to use spring or well water for a first fill. This sort of water for topping up a pool is generally okay - the pool treatment systems - throw in acid if it is limey and adjust the chlorine appropriately can normally cope (even for a first fill, though it takes time and money.)

If the spring or well is not sufficiently strong to push out say 20 cubic metres of water a day, or if you want to swim in the pool immediately it has been filled, then there is a good case for buying in the water.