I Built My First Pool - Just to Test Pool Robots... Was It Worth It? ($2,000 Budget) - Video

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I built my first ever pool! With basically zero experience — and somehow a simple budget build turned into a completely overengineered DIY project.

It all started because I needed a better place to test pool cleaning robots. The old above-ground pool had wrinkles, an uneven floor and walls that curved inward, making proper testing almost impossible.

So I decided to build a new one myself.

The plan: keep it affordable, partially bury it, create a perfectly level and smooth floor, eliminate liner wrinkles and make the whole setup look significantly more premium.

What followed was almost two weeks of digging by hand, a concrete foundation that was probably complete overkill, foam underlay, a steel-wall pool that nearly defeated me during installation, landscaping, edging stones and white marble gravel.

I even managed to fall into the hole and bend the brand-new steel wall along the way.

The final cost came to €2,245.05 / approximately $2,596, slightly above my original €2,000 target, but the finished pool actually worked exactly as intended. The floor was smooth, the setup was level and pool robots could finally navigate without constantly fighting wrinkles, waves and terrible wall geometry.

And then, just a few months later…

I moved away.

So naturally, the next step is going bigger. I'm currently waiting for an excavator from China and that should make the upcoming DIY projects considerably more interesting.

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00:00 – Teaser & Intro
01:52 – Pool Build
07:55 – Cost Breakdown
08:53 – Conclusion & Outro
09:51 – Watch This Next

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