Pool Owners.....What to do with all the pool "stuff"?

[gymboqueenkaylee]

We recently got a pool put in our backyard (not happy about it at first but it's growing on me). We now have all this pool stuff (floats, games, cleaning stuff, etc etc). Where the heck to you guys store yours? I'm at the point where it feels like out small barn has become a pool house and we are going to have to move things out of the barn which I really don't want to do. What else can you do? Is there some sort of storage thing that can be bought to store and organize this stuff??

 

[dakcp2001]

My parents have a "pool shed" right near the pool. It is for ONLY pool stuff.

 

[luvflorida]

We already had a shed in our backyard before we put in our pool. The shed was used to hold all our lawn equipment (lawn mowers, rakes, hoses, etc.) and tools. After the pool was installed, we rearranged things, and used half the shed for pool stuff (chemicals, vacuum, winter cover and so on).

I bought a large Rubbermaid bench that had a seat that opened for storage and a smaller Rubbermaid container/box that were kept in the pool area. These held all the pool toys. The idea was that at the end of every day, the floats, swim rings, diving toys, goggles, fins, beach balls and whatever else that was used in the pool, would be picked up and put in the storage containers. Realistically, it didn't always happen!

 

[CMHusband]

It floats in the pool, lays on the lawn, gets shoved under the rotten ping pong table, turns moldy, gets pee'd on by the dogs, and then one day I get really annoyed at it and throw it away. This is the life cycle of ALL pool toys at our house.

Grrrrr

 

[LadyZolt]

It floats in the pool, lays on the lawn, gets shoved under the rotten ping pong table, turns moldy, gets pee'd on by the dogs, and then one day I get really annoyed at it and throw it away. This is the life cycle of ALL pool toys at our house.

Grrrrr

LOL!!! This really made me laugh, so I had to post. I hope the tag fairy makes this a tag. LOL!

I was going to post the Rubbermaid bench-that-opens idea that has already been suggested as that worked for me, but I have to agree that some of our pool toys have also had the life cycle CMHusband posted, except it wasn't a ping pong table. It was under the pool deck.

-Dorothy

 

[TriMom]

It floats in the pool, lays on the lawn, gets shoved under the rotten ping pong table, turns moldy, gets pee'd on by the dogs, and then one day I get really annoyed at it and throw it away. This is the life cycle of ALL pool toys at our house.

Grrrrr

This has to be the life cycle of ALL pool toys everywhere - because ours float in the pool, lays in the yard, gets poked at with sticks, gets shoved under the pool deck, gets moldy, sits under the deck for a year, then get thrown away.

 

[PollyannaMom]

DH drilled drainage holes in the bottom of a laundry basket. Small toys go in there, and large floats go between it and the deck railing. Chemicals in the shed with the lawn mower and stuff.

 

[aprilgail2]

We have a shed but we use that for yard stuff so I just bought another shed to use for the pool stuff.

 

[aprilvaca04]

This has to be the life cycle of ALL pool toys everywhere - because ours float in the pool, lays in the yard, gets poked at with sticks, gets shoved under the pool deck, gets moldy, sits under the deck for a year, then get thrown away.

Yes indeed this sounds about right!

 

[kacaju]

It floats in the pool, lays on the lawn, gets shoved under the rotten ping pong table, turns moldy, gets pee'd on by the dogs, and then one day I get really annoyed at it and throw it away. This is the life cycle of ALL pool toys at our house.

Grrrrr

Same here minus the ping pong table. It gets shoved under the picnic table!!

 

[lovebuzz]

This is what we have...
http://www.lesliespool.com/browse/H...ganizer/D/30100/P/1:100:10000:1000010/I/76484

 

[gymboqueenkaylee]

Love Buzz, I love that organizer. I am going to have to check out that for sure.

We have thought about that Rubbermaid thing...just didn't know if anyone had used it for pool stuff and it actually work.

 

[JessicaR]

We use a large dock box. Looks something like this:

It works out great! Until the end of the summer when the lid doesnt close all the way - time to clean it out!

 

[monarchsfan16]

My dad built a shed around the pool pump. It's plenty big enough to store the chemicals, winter cover, and toys in the summer. In the winter, the toys get moved to the basement and a lot of the pool furniture gets moved into the shed. So does the ladder.
I've also seen people use those giant rubbermaid containers, but I'd worry about water not draining out of there.

 

[Kimberly]

Actually have 2 pool sheds here... one just for pool toys, the other for the pump, filter, and heating systems.

 

[okeydokey]

This is what we have...
http://www.lesliespool.com/browse/H...ganizer/D/30100/P/1:100:10000:1000010/I/76484

This seems like a pretty simple thing to make out of PVC pipe. We hang the skimmer and hoses and stuff on the walls of the screenhouse or the house itself. The small toys I put in a big plastic bucket that we drilled with holes in the bottom. Got that at Target for about $5.

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

For the poles and nets we have a railing into the basement way and we have planter shelves hanging there and we just lay the poles across that. It doesn't affect anyone going up and down the stairs since it's on the outside of the cellar way. Also we use those same hangers on our 6ft fence to hold our ladders for the house.

For the pool toys we have a couple of the Rubbermaid benches and a seperate Rubbermaid shed for that.