re: We decided to install a pool...

quote:

---

don't know, with young kids in a hot state and long summers it seems like a pretty solid way to go if you aren't about that neighborhood pool life.

---

first pool I ever owned at my last house.

When we bought I new one I bought one with a pool again.

My 7yo lives in it. Better than being inside on a Nintendo when it's 100 degrees outside.

Jandy parts are very hard to get locally. I personally would not use any pool contractor using Jandy equipment. Extreme low end product. I would specify Pentair pool equipment a little more expensive but more durable and easier to get serviced

Chlorine is upwards of $10 a pound and rising daily due to closed plants and difficulty getting isocyanurates from China. Definitely go salt

Also I am adding a cyclonic water cleaner between the pump and filter which will reduce filter cleaning by 75%. Only problem is only Jacuzzi makes them now and others have to create a different design because of patents

Put me on team salt. I never have to shock my pool. At most I have to add alittle CYA mid summer as I’ve diluted water from evap/refill.

As far as corrosion, I don’t have any. I’ve got a metal table sitting 10’ from my pool for the past 8 years and it doesn’t show any rust so IDK what is going on with these other folks pools.

I have the jandy truclear system, cleaning the cell is easy. A 5 gallon bucket with a little bit of water/Muratic acid mix and let it soak for a bit, then hose it off. I do that every 3-4 months.

I have a buddy that runs a pool cleaning service. He has around 100 pools. He said if they would all go salt his job would be simple. The chlorine pools for him are much harder to maintain, especially when he can only find liquid chlorine like has been the case most of this year. He won’t even allow a chlorine pool owner to do biweekly service since the pool will be green.

All that said, I have a buddy who had a chlorine pool with UV sanitizer installed two years ago and he says his is basically maintenance free also. So with modern systems you probably can’t go wrong either way

quote:

---

For an extra 15k I'd build in a hot tub

---

you'll spend close to this on a stand-alone above ground jacuzzi that will be a constant hassle.

bite the bullet and spend the extra 15k for a jacuzzi. well worth it.

The best way to keep using a pool is to design it with adult use in mind, not kid use. Your kids will grow up quick and then you are left with a pool built for toddlers that you don't use. Think about how you will use it. For example, my wife swims laps for exercise. My kids are grown but she uses the pool 4 times a week because it is long enough and sized for her to swim laps.

Get a dolphin

quote:

---

The in-floor cleaner only does half of what a good pool robot would do. You have to clean AND scrub the pool. My robot handles both.

---

yep. my old pool consisted of me emptying the strainer basket EVERY SINGLE DAY (filled with spiders and sometimes mice, chipmunks and snakes) as well as skimming the pool.
I had to brush it and vacuum the bottom at least once a week and it took on average at least an hour.

My new pool has this:



That little fricker runs once a day (I could set it to run only 3x a week which I should probably do) and gets every speck of dirt and is entertaining when it comes crawling out of the water like JAWS and scares the hell out of friends we have over.

I do literally nothing except check the chemistry and empty those disgusting filters once every couple weeks. i haven't so much as used the net one time this summer or brushed the pool.

I will literally be on the phone ordering another one the same day it dies.