Anyone Have a Pool?

Only the two MOST important things:

POOL

MAN!

 

Oh!!

You have a Ferrari AND a pool. look at you!


J/K.

Not necessarily that big a pain.

Need not drain it at all, at least for years at a time.

Baquacil is nice as it does not have chlorine smell nor the eye burn of chlorine, a bit more expensive.

You can have a service for a while, watch carefully, get a book and you will find the chemistry is pretty simple.

Good luck.

 

Dane,

We have already had that thread. And no offense to the Great Dr.Stranglove......his pool kicks ass....

p.s.- I have been called a pool boy before, but i have no idea how to maintain one.

 

i just piss in mine and that usually kills anything thats in it. the bacteria level gets a little high sometimes.

 

and this is why nobody ever goes to john's house everyone

 

So....you swim in Lamour's pissy pool. eh?

 

hey, if you get off to that kinda stuff then go right ahead, but for all of those who live in reality, no that is disgusting

 

yep i did !!!! felt like i was kissing my brother.

 

John and I actually share the pool It is just as much mine as his if not more mine no offense John
Erik

 

this is who john kissed
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Your season for use will be very short, even shorter if the pool is not heated. I do my own opening and closing to save money, if you pay someone count on $300 per. It does not sound like you are an avid swimmer, so how many times a year would you go in? Now divide that number by 5 and there is how many times you will go in two years from now. Running the filter non-stop costs $100 a month in electric, chemicals cost about $50 a month, if I use the heater add $500 a month. I suspect each hour of use costs me $1000, plus the three hours a week I dedicate to checking, fixing, vacuuming, etc. but it is only May 31 through Sept 1, so three months a year.

 

Here is how the typical pool situation works...

1) You want a pool. It will be cool. You see youself bathing and tanning daily... The whole family will use it. Wow!
2) You buy pool.
3) Pool worth 20% of what you paid for it 2 days later.
4) You put clean water in pool.
5) You spend rest of the year trying to get water to look that same color and translucency again...
6) You use pool twice. Labor day, and Memorial Day (unless you live in the sunbelt)....
7) Pool turns green
8) You Shock it (50$ a treatment)
9) You Shock it again...
10) OOpps...now its cold, put the cover on it...

Now, you go to sell the house. Remember when you were buying the house and the realtor told you it was an "asset." Well, now it will be labeled a "liability."

Tons of folks won't buy a house with a pool. If you live in the sunbelt of the country of california, things might be different...

Ask me how I know .

 

Really....? Please describe what it felt like when you were kissing your brother...

 

No. I just hi-jack threads randomly. And I liked DRs pool.


I think Darf had the best idea.

>>POOL MAN<<

 

My friend works for and soon to be son-in-law of one of the best custom pool builders in the nation. As in custom, each one is entirely different. He has never done one pool like any of the rest. He also designs each pool, fountain, spa, etc by hand. But his pricing starts at the $100,000 range I believe.

 

kinda like this--------- ahhhhh what a beautiful thing........
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Self maintenance is easy once you've got it down. The only time it becomes a real hassle is if you've got a lot of trees around. In that case I'd get a guy.

 

A salt system is a great thing to have. Put some salt in the water and a voltage cell generates chlorine. Cuts chemical cost down to very little.

Have to agree that useage drops off after a couple years.

 

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dude my g-parents have a place in sun valley, best place in the us. pool or not get the place. it is easy to keep a pool clean. do it.

 

damn i wish i had a pool, freakin a 100+ today. And a lot of people dont have power in my area due to the hurricane, so their hurtin just a little bit..

 

A pool is just one more thing to take care of. Maintenance isn't bad assuming the pools already have standard pump, filtration, sweep & skim systems. Learning isn't hard, so rather than get into the details, the real issue is time or cost versus utilization.

You can do it yourself and figure 30-60 minutes a week (probably not much different than mowing/gardening if the same area were green) just checking, cleaning, covering, etc or call some local pool maintenance folks and get their quotes for contracted maintenance.

Also consider that major pool components and the plaster/gunnite may be older and could require replacement. Depending on the size of the pool, this could be a few hundred $ or big $$$.

The upside is that if you swim or if the pool also has a spa/jacuzzi, then it can be very healthy & relaxing. But the useful season is probably limited in Idaho. Kids love pools and will increase the use, but it's also a danger and you have an additional burden/responsibility to be constantly alert and keep the pool fenced off and locked when there's no one supervising.

You mentioned that 2 houses had pools. As with all transactions, the buyer will try to position it as a liability and the seller as an asset. The actual consideration whether a pool is a asset or liability partly depends on the neighborhood. If a very large fraction of houses in the area have pools, then having one is probably an asset as it conforms to expectations. If it's a minority then it's more likely to be a liability as the house can be considered to be "overbuilt" for the area. It will also depend on the individuals own weighting based on preference & circumstances (e.g.families with babies will take many years before they'll be pool-safe, so it's a liability for them, regardless of the neighborhood).