Father, 65, earns £85,000-a-year by renting out his swimming pool to hundreds of punters who don't like to take a 下落する in public
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A father earns £85,000 a year by renting out the swimming pool in his garden to hundreds of people too shy to swim in public.
Steve Crum, 65, was struggling with the expensive upkeep costs of his large Victorian family home which （機の）カム with a pool.
He looked into 取って代わるing it with an Airbnb but when he was 引用するd £20,000 for the work, he decided to advertise the pool on a 地元の Facebook group.
He says the pool outside his home in Warrington, Cheshire, is fully 調書をとる／予約するd from 8am to 9pm year 一連の会議、交渉／完成する.
It costs £25 for a 私的な 90 minutes one person 開会／開廷／会期 and £56 for a group of eight.
He says it's a 攻撃する，衝突する with people who don't like to swim in public.
Steve Crum, 65, (pictured) was struggling with the expensive upkeep costs of his large Victorian family home which （機の）カム with a pool so he decided to 雇う it out
It costs £25 for a 私的な 90 minutes one person 開会／開廷／会期 and £56 for a group of eight
He says the pool outside his home in Warrington, Cheshire, is fully 調書をとる／予約するd from 8am to 9pm
Mr Crum, who 以前 worked in IT, said: 'It was maybe used to be used once a week before.
'It cost £500 to heat a month. It was wasted.
'Three years ago we had an old house with no one in it. It was very expensive to run.
'I thought "hang on we have a swimming pool, what about renting the pool out?"
'I didn't have any 期待s.
'The swimming pool is busy from 8am to 9pm. It's our main income.
'It's a joy to see people coming and going.'
Mr Crum thought about 取って代わるing it with two more bedrooms so he could Airbnb part of the house.
Instead he decided to make use of what he had and put an advert on his 地元の Facebook group to open up his pool in August 2021.
In the first few years Steve made £40,000 to £50,000 but now makes £85,000 a year.
He said: 'It's unbelievable.'
Pictured left to 権利 are?Nick Crum, 39, Dave Crum 37, and Steve Crum, 65
Mr Crum looked into 取って代わるing it with an Airbnb but when he was 引用するd £20,000 for the work, he decided to advertise the pool on a 地元の Facebook group
He finds people come to his pool who can't or don't want to go to a public pool for 団体／死体 conscious 推論する／理由s.
Mr Crum also has lots of special needs groups who are able to swim in the 私的な 環境.
His sons Nick, 39, a film 生産者, and Dave, 37, a 財政上の 助言者, 開始する，打ち上げるd Swimple - an app to help others do the same last year. They now have six active pools 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d.
Nick said: 'It's very rewarding for many 推論する／理由s.
'It's a different swimming experience. Everyone gets to have a little bit of 高級な.
'It's usually something you only get on holiday. There is いっそう少なく and いっそう少なく 接近 to swimming. We're trying to 戦闘 that.'
His father said: 'When I started it just thought about the money. I had no idea what lovely people you get.
'It's really rewarding. People get so much out of the swi mming pool.
'We want to get more people swimming. We want to get more 接近 to pools around the UK.
'Pools are cost sucking. They have a 傾向 to de-value 所有物／資産／財産s.'
