We are curremtly deciding on what wall material to put in a room with an indoor endless pool. There will be tile 4′ up and then the wall material begins. There is a pool cover that is supposed to keep 100% of the pool humidity in and a major dehumidification system installed. We are thinking about marine ply or a waterproof drywall material my drywaller suggested. (I forget the name of it…maybe dentrock?). Anyone know of other options or good suggestions?
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what temp are you planning on keeping the pool at??????
Those pools can be used as a spa if the heat is cranked up enough. If it going to be used as designed.... ie; close to 70-75 F then blue board ( or water resistant dry wall) will be fine.
But if you are going to crank it up for a hot tub...... then durock and tile is the only way to go. it is all about how hot you are going to keep the tub at?
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On the flip side, I do regular work for a guy who lives on the coast. When he built his pre-McMansion McMansion, he had a swimming pool built in the basement, maybe 10-15x25' (& installed an elevator to get to it.) Tough to tell, cause it's now carpeted over. The moisture (or the lack of removing it, really) caused real problems, creating mold, mildew, etc everywhere. So air exchange should be your biggest priority, imo.
Now he has a huge room that is never used. Nice guy though.
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We did a pool room with a 20x30 lap pool about 6 years ago, used the green sheetrock floor to cieling. The tapers taped and used an epoxy paint. Expensive and stunk but six years later still like new. We did install a HRV air exchanger wich helped keep the humidity down.
Then a couple years ago we did an indoor pool of similar size in the lower level of a home, two walls were buried exterior walls built of ICF the other two were glass. The homeowner insisted on corrugated steel roofing on the walls, it might have been aluminum I am not sure, but it was roofing, the cieling was some kind of a spray on bedliner/rubber stuff. Tt looked wierd at first, but after awhile it kinda grew on ya. The HO was estatic. Far as I know it held up. All the elctrical was run in exposed conduit, giving it an industrial feel.
Hey Ace,
The only thing I can suggest is to use a fool proof vapor barrier on the envelope of the pool room. The best thing to use is 2 lb density polyurethane spray foam. This is the closed cell foam. It does not absorb water and has a perm rating of ~1.
When sprayed on it sticks like glue to almost any surface and forms a continuous boundry layer of protection without seams. Can't think of anything else that will do that. The spray foam is also excellent for wine cellars for the same reasons.
Stu