Our pool season is short. Mid-May til Mid-October. We have a pool service, cleaning and chemicals any other maintenance that needs done, including servicing the pump and filters. Whatever else they do. We pay a per year contract price of $680.00 a year, plus if parts are needed, but labor to replace is included. I don’t know how this matches up to others.
Who has a in-ground swimming pool?
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Yep! That’s definitely it. I bought mine for $1,000 Canadian money plus the salt water filter which was another $200 or so. Then I bought a vacuum cleaner. Altogether it was about $1300 with free shipping. I purchase bags of salt and water each year which costs me about $350 but there’s almost 10,000 gallons of water. These are GREAT pools. The only thing I dislike about them is that they’ve made every part slightly off from being standard so you HAVE to purchase parts from them only but it still worth it.We have basically the same pool at our house in Arkansas. The best investment I ever made was the wedding cake style steps so I don't have to use a ladder.
I put mine off the back deck of the house.
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Do you others with pools purchase water or just use your own? We are on well water so I can’t do that.
That was a smart move purchasing those stairs. Unfortunately I don’t have a deck near our pool. It’s in an area that if it floods it won’t cause any problems
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We had a salt water filter on our original pool here. (the one the renters ruined). Our current one uses a sand filter, and a simple chlorine floater. Use about one 5 gallon pail of 3" tablets a year, so we're happy. We use our own well water (480' well) and what really pleased me was, when we filled it up, the ph balance was perfect. Didn't need any shock or additives.
this was our smaller 16'round pool that I had to replace.
480 foot well is quite the well. Clearly it’s drilled. Ours is a dug well. When we had our house built we actually asked for a drilled well but the guy said they won’t do drill wells here. We really should have gotten a second opinion because we’ve had some problems with this well.We had a salt water filter on our original pool here. (the one the renters ruined). Our current one uses a sand filter, and a simple chlorine floater. Use about one 5 gallon pail of 3" tablets a year, so we're happy. We use our own well water (480' well) and what really pleased me was, when we filled it up, the ph balance was perfect. Didn't need any shock or additives.
this was our smaller 16'round pool that I had to replace.
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That’s a lovely round pool. We actually have similar tastes and styles in homes and lifestyles; you’ve obviously got great taste.
note: I’ve got one of those sand filters too that came with the pool. The salt water thing is an attachment that you add instead of using chemicals which works well for me. I’m not good with using chemicals and the salt water thingy only needs descaling with vinegar once throughout the season. I really like that part.
Do you leave yours up all year? I have to take mine down each year to protect it but we can get -40F here.
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StarSong
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I'd say this is a very good price for you and probably yields a reasonable salary/profit for your service. Win-win.
You get 6 months of pool use in PA? Wow! Is your pool heated, or do you not mind when the water temps are in the 70s?
We just bought a solar cover for ours to extend the season. I like water temps about 85.
We use natural gas to heat the water. Generally, in mid-May, we will get into the mid 70's (outside temp) and the same until mid-October. We get about 5 months use. The price that I wrote does not include any parts if needed, but does include labor to install. The pool dude only comes like every 2 weeks, so like now during really hot weather, I sometimes have to shock the pool, which is an added expense, but I don't mind. I'm OK when the water is above 78°, so I do have to heat it from mid-May to mid-June and then around mid-September to mid-October. If we have a wet summer and get a lot of rain, that can drastically change the water temp.
We did use a solar cover when we had the above ground pool, but found it to be a p-i-t-a. That's why when we had the in-ground installed, we decided to go with a heater.
StarSong
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Our pool is huge, absolutely massive. There's no servicing, no chemical costs and no maintenance apart from clearing the weeds. Have to say, I have yet to take a swim in it, not even a quick paddle.
StarSong
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@911: I just saw this thread and am embarrassed to see that that I never followed up on this post as I'd promised.
Back story on the reel and cover - I'd been pushing for this setup for years but DH resisted because he loved looking at the sparkling pool in the backyard. Since he took care of it, I mostly backed off. Even so, it disturbed me to have to put a couple of inches of water in the pool every month or so, since we live in a place where water is precious.
I eventually talked him into it based on the retained solar heat allowing us to swim deeper into the fall during the pandemic. Our pool isn't heated.
The pool stays much cleaner, requires less chlorine and chemicals (though that's not a big deal - we spend about $100 per year on chemicals, so now maybe it would be $60), only needs 1/3 the amount of water replenishment as before, and it really retained the warmth. We swam more last summer than since out children were young - not because of the pandemic, but because the pool felt so delicious!
It takes us less than a minute to put the cover on or take it off.
Our only regret with the cover was that we didn't get one years ago!