Not Sure How this will Go......<Pool or boat?>

[drewkaree]

Out of curiosity, how does one pick up and take a pool home?

You lift with your legs. Don't try dragging it, you may find it doesn't hold water as well when you get it to the final destination.

 

[Stoltzy]

My wife and I just made this decision and went with a boat. Can sell the boat, upgrade the boat, take the boat with us. Can't do that with a pool. We also live 12 minutes from the launch (Raystown Lake in PA) so it's super easy for us to hook up the boat and go. Plus our neighbors have a pool, so we get invited there a lot.

 

[captainhook]

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

I think costs were fairly static for many years, and then COVID hits and everybody wants a pool and labor is dramatically more expensive (along with everything else). Based on what I've heard, the one I installed in 2018 would be at least 50-60% more expensive post-COVID. That's about the price of a 255XD.

On another note, I always hear people who consider maintenance of a pool is significant. It isn't. I've maintained my pool on my own since it was installed and as long as you keep up with it, it's probably 1-1.5 hours per week at the very most. I close and open it myself as well and that takes a few hours but it's done twice per year. That said, most people do it wrong and wind up with a mess and getting "pool-stored" throwing in a bunch of $$$ crap that's completely unnecessary.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Pool sold two days ago, Guy came and picked it up. Probably putting up a teather ball or volley ball net back there.