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If you get enough sun - the poor mans solar heater works here (not sure if up north). Just a bunch of PVC pipes on your roof painted black that the water travels through.
You’re a good dad, putting the kids wish of a pool before yours.Whelp...... To update my pool Journey.........
This morning the Admiral indicated that one kid doesn't really want to use the pool but the other wants to use it once in a while - but never does. Ages 16 and 18. She told me I could put it up for sale. I took it down last fall and it is actually rolled up in the boat. Excellent condition.
A lot of work was put into it as you can see by my journey in this thread. The maintenance around the trees was constant, and the girls never really wanted to use it. I didn't have a heater. Plus on the weekends we were on the boat, and as with teenage girls, they always have something better to do somewhere. If it was heated or an inground, I am sure it would get more use.
Sooo.... I plan on selling it and resodding what I took out. The electrical and pole in the backyard will remain. Who knows what the future brings back there, for us or the next owners of the house. I have wanted to move but figure in two years when the last kid graduates from High School. Maybe on a lake or a bit more out into the suburbs/country. Perhaps where there is an association pool or the home already has an inground pool. Maybe finding a place that has such things will give me leverage to move with the Admiral.
No offense taken by me. My brother bought his home with an in ground pool already installed. The previous owner told him it cost $60k, this was about seven years ago, a local radio station just gave away a $70k pool to a listener, it won’t be ready until next summer. I use to work as a pool and spa cleaner/maintainer in high school and clearly recall that most people didn’t use their pools much at all and most recently I’ve got co-workers telling me how little they use their pools compared to how much time and money they spend maintaining them. These are all things I considered when deciding to go with an above ground pool. That is, if I don’t like it I won’t be out over $15k, a lot less if i don’t have a deck put in but I’m sure it will get a lot less use without the deck.
13,600 gallons, wow that is a big pool. I think mine tops out at 6,500 and the electric heaters that can handle more are 240v as well as a lot more expensive. Good luck with whatever you decide. If we go forward with putting a deck up and it looks like we will, I’m going to buy a second pool that is the same as the first of I cannot just find the liner for it. Nice to have spare but what a waste of storage space.
I want that life
This is my back deck. Pool for the kid and hot tub for the wife.
I don't know exact dollar amount, but it does rack up the gas bill. We do that during late spring and early fall. In winter we only heat the hot tub prior to using it so it's cheap. Summer much less power needed to heat. But yeah. I hear you
Making a diy solar water heater is pretty inexpensive and inexpensive to run, and if you cover the pool I have no doubt you’d be surprised at how warm the water will get. I like the solar heater Ronnie listed, and you won’t have to try and get a 240VAC ckt out to where the pool is, using a heat pump to heat the water will take a lot of KWH’s. Shoot just having a dark colored pool cover will heat the water a lot on its own. A friend of mine had a very dark blue cover on their pool, never ran the heater and it was really warm.
Thanks. Its all good. It was a learning experience. I don't regret it. Next pool, maybe next house will be inground. But again with the boat we see plenty of water. I didn't get out this week. Been prepping the boat slowly but shooting for end of next week.
Yup my dads small kidney shapped pool is being resurfaced in FL this month and he said its 17k. I was shocked. He said that pool cost him 50k to build around 20 years ago. Today would cost 80k for same pool
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Out of curiosity, how does one pick up and take a pool home?Whelp..... End of this chapter.
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@Yambers Yes I do appreciate it. If you want that filter returned I can do that of course.