Hurricane prep question

[Anonymous]

Why are people putting their patio furniture in their pools?

I understand that you need to remove your outdoor furniture so it doesn't blow away and cause damage. But why wouldn't you bring it inside rather than putting it in your pool? Won't the furniture damage the pool? Our neighborhood pool had to be completely resurfaced when a bunch of punk teens put the pool furniture into the pool. I don't get this. And I'm seeing lots of FB pics of floridians prepping for the storm by throwing their patio furniture into the pool.

[Anonymous]

So it doesn't become a projectile. It should sink to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

http://blog.poolcenter.com/article.aspx?articleid=6290

You aren't supposed to put furniture in the pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it doesn't become a projectile. It should sink to the bottom.

Did you even read the original post? It recognized that you must remove potential projectiles and then went on to discuss how throwing furniture in the pool can damage the pool (and the furniture) and asked why you wouldn't simply bring the furniture inside.

[Anonymous]

We don't put ours in the pool. But if you have a small house and a lot of outdoor furniture, it's better than just leaving it out. We brought the water level down a little in our pool and shocked it. The furniture is stacked in the garage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it doesn't become a projectile. It should sink to the bottom.

Did you even read the original post? It recognized that you must remove potential projectiles and then went on to discuss how throwing furniture in the pool can damage the pool (and the furniture) and asked why you wouldn't simply bring the furniture inside.

Relax friend. Seriously. Because patio furniture is often large and people may not have room to really bring it all inside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it doesn't become a projectile. It should sink to the bottom.

Did you even read the original post? It recognized that you must remove potential projectiles and then went on to discuss how throwing furniture in the pool can damage the pool (and the furniture) and asked why you wouldn't simply bring the furniture inside.

Relax friend. Seriously. Because patio furniture is often large and people may not have room to really bring it all inside.

That's not what I'm seeing on FB: table and 4 chairs in the pool with a large house in the background.

I have friends who work at resorts in south Florida. Some resorts (usually the midrange, not the high end) are forced to toss furniture into the pool...knowing it will damage the pool (and they may or may not resurface the pool after hurricane season). The high end resorts bring the pool furniture indoors...too expensive to resurface those high end pools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it doesn't become a projectile. It should sink to the bottom.

Did you even read the original post? It recognized that you must remove potential projectiles and then went on to discuss how throwing furniture in the pool can damage the pool (and the furniture) and asked why you wouldn't simply bring the furniture inside.

Relax friend. Seriously. Because patio furniture is often large and people may not have room to really bring it all inside.

That's not what I'm seeing on FB: table and 4 chairs in the pool with a large house in the background.

I have friends who work at resorts in south Florida. Some resorts (usually the midrange, not the high end) are forced to toss furniture into the pool...knowing it will damage the pool (and they may or may not resurface the pool after hurricane season). The high end resorts bring the pool furniture indoors...too expensive to resurface those high end pools.

Well then I don't know what to tell you based on what you see on FB.

[Anonymous]

They may figure the pool is a loss anyway, and would rather not rude out the storm with no room to move inside because the patio furniture is there. Most people don't have space for a whole patio set inside.

[Anonymous]

Resurfacing the pool is small beans when coupled with the rest of the damages.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes false information is spread on Facebook and people believe it because their friend has a friend who did it and it worked out great. Who are you going to trust? A friend of a friend or some scientist?

[Anonymous]

Can someone please explain how a piece of furniture is going to damage a pool? This makes no sense at all. We've always put the chaise lounges and chairs in the pool for wind events. The pool is concrete. The same material that the pool deck that the furniture sits on 6 months a year. How is furniture going to harm a concrete pool? Absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain how a piece of furniture is going to damage a pool? This makes no sense at all. We've always put the chaise lounges and chairs in the pool for wind events. The pool is concrete. The same material that the pool deck that the furniture sits on 6 months a year. How is furniture going to harm a concrete pool? Absurd.

What is absurd is that you don't seem to understand pools have liners. Liners can be torn. Liners are expensive.

I asked a hurricane-experienced friend about this and she said they used to do it to add weight to the pool. Pools can actually be pulled out of the ground by pressure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain how a piece of furniture is going to damage a pool? This makes no sense at all. We've always put the chaise lounges and chairs in the pool for wind events. The pool is concrete. The same material that the pool deck that the furniture sits on 6 months a year. How is furniture going to harm a concrete pool? Absurd.

What is absurd is that you don't seem to understand pools have liners. Liners can be torn. Liners are expensive.

I asked a hurricane-experienced friend about this and she said they used to do it to add weight to the pool. Pools can actually be pulled out of the ground by pressure.

Concrete/gunnite pools do not have liners. There's also no way pools come out of the ground from pressure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain how a piece of furniture is going to damage a pool? This makes no sense at all. We've always put the chaise lounges and chairs in the pool for wind events. The pool is concrete. The same material that the pool deck that the furniture sits on 6 months a year. How is furniture going to harm a concrete pool? Absurd.

What is absurd is that you don't seem to understand pools have liners. Liners can be torn. Liners are expensive.

I asked a hurricane-experienced friend about this and she said they used to do it to add weight to the pool. Pools can actually be pulled out of the ground by pressure.

My pool didn't have a liner. It was a gunnite pool. I don't think putting furniture in it would have hurt it.