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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 came with a pool.
He looked into replacing it with an Airbnb but when he was quoted £20,000 for the work, he decided to advertise the pool on a local Facebook group.
He says the pool outside his home in Warrington, Cheshire, is fully booked from 8am to 9pm year round.
It costs £25 for a private 90 minutes one person session and £56 for a group of eight.
He says it's a hit 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 came with a pool so he decided to hire it out
It costs £25 for a private 90 minutes one person session and £56 for a group of eight
He says the pool outside his home in Warrington, Cheshire, is fully booked from 8am to 9pm
Mr Crum, who previously 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
