Considering adding Inground Pool in MoCo - Advice?
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Are you doing concrete or vinyl liner? If the latter, get a regular shape, which will make liner replacements over the years less costly.
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Neighbors live their pool, but they complain all the time about recurring maintenance and repair costs on machinery, replacing the liner, and what not. They do their own chemicals and Ph tests. I don't care either way if one has an pool - do what makes you happy. |
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Those of you who worked at pools in high school don't count. Pools are MUCH more self-sufficient today.
We put a pool in in 2011. Hot tub is attached to pool with sheer decent waterfalls from the spa into the pool. Our pool is salt water. Absolutely get salt water - you won't need chemicals except for when you open it in the spring. Plus it's much better for your skin. Get a Polaris pool vacuum robot and that and the pump and skimmer baskets practically maintain the pool by themselves. We have a pool service come once a month for maintenance and we have them open the pool in the spring and close it in the fall. Definitely get a heater and you will extend your pool season by a few months. We open our pool in April and close it early November. Spring and Fall are perfect hot tub weather. We use the hot tub almost nightly in the spring and fall. Depending on the size of the pool and other work you choose do to (hardscape, etc.) the pool will cost you $100K minimum and up to over $200K for hardscape, hot tub, cool pool features, etc. We love having our own pool. DH is a germaphobe so he will not swim in a public pool. When our kids were toddlers, we went to the local pool club and a kid puked in the pool. They closed it for the rest of the day. That was the end of going to the pool club for us!! |
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We are back to pre covid. 90% don’t want pools. |
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Ok ok pool contractor…relax. There are a few idiots who will still install or buy homes with pools. |
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In this area, unlike Florida for example, a pool is a luxury and not that common. Just go into it thinking that way.
We moved from solar heating to gas heating, because the solar heating neded a lot of maintenance (it's a bunch of pipes on the roof) and that maintenance is difficult. Our pool main company didn't go up on the roof, and our roofer didn't know how the thing worked. Much happier we switched to gas. In this area, there's just a handful of pool companies, so you're subject to their schedule. It could be 6+ months to get in their schedule. |
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| JUST DONT. Unless you are mega rich |
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| We love our saltwater pool. The construction process was just as chaotic as the builder promised and my backyard looked like a war zone for a long time. However, the finished product was worth it and it's been great having our own pool to share with friends and family. |
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| How much does it cost to heat a pool using natural gas? How long does the heated water last- just for that one day only? |
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| Don't do it. Use the money instead to join a club. Preferably, the one your kids' friends would belong to. |
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Hi OP! So excited you're considering putting in a pool. We absolutely love ours. The builder of our pool also maintains it which has been great. They said we are by far the people who use it the most out of all their customers they have built/maintain pools for.
How recently did you put it in, and how long from idea to completion was the project? Ours was completed March 2023. They started digging the hole to begin construction in November 2022. I think our first meeting with the builder to begin discussions about our vision and budget etc was in March 2022. Could you share any ballpark figures about the annual maintenance costs? We keep our pool open year-round bc I like swimming laps even in winter. We use natural gas to heat it. We also pay for maintenance year-round. I'd say probably 10-12k annually (this includes the cost for heating it, running it, maintenance year-round, etc). The total cost of the pool all in (including landscaping and the patio and fire pit etc that were all a part of the pool build)was about 350k I'd say. Our pool is also unusually large bc I love to swim laps. It's about 50 by 25 feet rectangle. It has been worth every penny for us. We have a 3 year old and 8 year old. We use it every single day from May-October. We love hosting pool parties (we just bump up the heat) on random 80 degree days we get in October and November and March and April. We swam on Christmas Day 2023 bc it was sunny and the high was in the 50s and we bumped the heater up to 90 degrees. Priceless memories made. I hope this helps! I will come back and post again once I discuss/confirm the maintenance costs with my husband. I was just estimating. 
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Do you have a really small pool? We had a beautiful extremely large pool with an elongated kidney shape, diving board with deep end, fountain etc. The shape didn’t really allow for a cover. The electronic robot cleaner thing could never keep up with the leaves and critters that would drown in the pool. I was constantly rinsing the filters, keeping algae at bay and I hated it! Kids loved it. |
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| We had our pool installed in 2022; its both the best and most frivolous money we ever spent. The build processes is long, messy, and chaotic. As a relative that works in the industry always says: "Everyone eventually hates their pool builder." |
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How recently did you put it in, and how long from idea to completion was the project?
2022; Met with builders in February, swimming in August. Solar panels just for the pool? We have them on our house, but I assume you mean a separate array? We have a a Natural Gas Heater. I've never seen the solar pool heater you see on rooftops in Florida in the area. I would not have a pool without a heater here. Depending on the weather we get between 4-8 weeks of additional use each year being able to heat. We typically open in April and close in October. Could you share any ballpark figures about the annual maintenance costs? We budget around $6K year; that's for opening/ closing and weekly maintenance & chemicals. Long term maintenance items on the horizon include replacement of the salt cell, winter safety cover, and automatic cover. Eventually all pools need to be replastered which is five figure project. We haven't had to make any repairs but pumps, heater, lights certainly can break and need repair. If you were doing it again, what would you do differently? (Lessons learned...) Automatic Cover, Salt System, and Heater are worth every penny. Water features/ bubblers/ etc. are a waste. |
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Completely agree. We maintain our own pool. Pump and everything else. We knew nothing about pools going in. It’s really not that complicated. We’ve even fixed a malfunctioning heater with You Tube and a $12 part. I spend 2 min every few days throwing chemicals in. An hour or two every few months to change the pump filter. It’s really not as hard as people make it out to be |