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re: putting in a pool
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:21 am to oldcharlie8
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:21 am to oldcharlie8
Get a set of plans professionally drawn up. Otherwise, your intrepretation of what you want may differ from pool contractor's vision. If you decide at a later point to add an outdoor kitchen, a professional architect will become even more valuable to you.
This post was edited on 2/22/15 at 8:25 am
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Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:25 am to RummelTiger
quote:Rummel is 30k the least you could put a pool in for? Wife wants one sometime in the future.....not ant OT baller
It can be done. A pool builder.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:26 am to BowDownToLSU
Price out pool contractors. They vary greatly for the same apples to apples comparison. How much do they vary? We received estimates that were over $30K apart.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:27 am to Will Cover
That's really nice Will 
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:30 am to BowDownToLSU
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Rummel is 30k the least you could put a pool in for?
I'd say 25k for a pretty basic liner pool will 4' of concrete.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:33 am to stout
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The pool itself depreciates. They don't add to the appraisal what they cost to build and they are also a turn off for some buyers as they don't want the headache and expense. I've seen $40K pools only a few years old add like $10K to the appraisal.
Enjoy!
I got about 40% on the last pool, but you're right, you don't recover the cost.
Didn't stop me from putting in another.
OP, choose your builder carefully. The % of "pool builders" that are sketchy is probably over 100%.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:43 am to Layabout
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Add in the 12k it will cost you to fill it in once you find out what a PITA it is.
We had a nice pool in our previous home. I don't know, I kind of like to have something to tinker with after work and on weekends.
I miss our happy hour martini time on a float after work with the little lady, and running the BGE poolside... enough so, that we are putting in another one at the new house within 18 months.
appreciation/depreciation pool =/= lifestyle & happiness
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:47 am to GusMcRae
I remember as a kid my parents put in a pool in the early 80's at our old house. 20' X 40' liner pool cost them $13K.
I was looking on Google earth the other day and noticed the pool had been filled in about 5 years ago.
I was looking on Google earth the other day and noticed the pool had been filled in about 5 years ago.
This post was edited on 2/22/15 at 8:54 am
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:48 am to oldcharlie8
Liner is cheapest
Fiberglas is next
The you have a hybrid pool which is fiberglass wall and gunite floors
Then it's total gunite
They started mine last week.
I went with hybrid. Gonna end up being around 46-48k.
That's with some custom water features plus my fence which is iron and brick.
That's around 4k though.
Fiberglas is next
The you have a hybrid pool which is fiberglass wall and gunite floors
Then it's total gunite
They started mine last week.
I went with hybrid. Gonna end up being around 46-48k.
That's with some custom water features plus my fence which is iron and brick.
That's around 4k though.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 8:59 am to TIGRLEE
You can easily get a liner pool for $30K. My advice: spend as much as you can on extra concrete decking. You won't be disappointed.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 9:03 am to Python
stupid question: can you still do saltwater with vinyl lined pools?
Posted on 2/22/15 at 9:08 am to oldcharlie8
Here's what I'm doing.
About 21k gallon pool
Posted on 2/22/15 at 9:08 am to oldcharlie8
Yes. The water isn't salt water. It's still chlorinated. Salt is used to generate the chlorine.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 9:09 am to TIGRLEE
With this exact shape
Posted on 2/22/15 at 9:33 am to oldcharlie8
1- Call a pool builder and get an estimate.
2- Listen to what he says about equipment needed, placement and pool design.
3- Locate an excavator (Anyone with a backhoe and a dump truck.
4- Pull all needed permits
5- Hire out an excavator after you design the pool area (Stakes and twine with that orange spray pain will do)
6-Hire a crew to do the rebar and find a gunite contractor, plaster/tile contractor
7- Get the plumbing lines ran after the rebar is in place (the flex PVC is expensive but very easy to use. Regular PVC is ok but you will have connections and elbows to make it go where you want)
8-Buy the equipment (I recommend a salt chlorinator)
9- Pour the equipment pad and have electrical lines run off the break panel. (Install an individual breaker panel for the pool itself)
10- Run the lines for the lights
I did it in 2005 and saved over 10K. Built a quouted 45K pool for less than 32K. We had a spillover spa in the deep end. No fancy multicolored lights but I did invest in the interior control panel. I could run on or off anything from my kitchen.
We moved to Illinois in 2010. I miss my pool pretty much every day.
2- Listen to what he says about equipment needed, placement and pool design.
3- Locate an excavator (Anyone with a backhoe and a dump truck.
4- Pull all needed permits
5- Hire out an excavator after you design the pool area (Stakes and twine with that orange spray pain will do)
6-Hire a crew to do the rebar and find a gunite contractor, plaster/tile contractor
7- Get the plumbing lines ran after the rebar is in place (the flex PVC is expensive but very easy to use. Regular PVC is ok but you will have connections and elbows to make it go where you want)
8-Buy the equipment (I recommend a salt chlorinator)
9- Pour the equipment pad and have electrical lines run off the break panel. (Install an individual breaker panel for the pool itself)
10- Run the lines for the lights
I did it in 2005 and saved over 10K. Built a quouted 45K pool for less than 32K. We had a spillover spa in the deep end. No fancy multicolored lights but I did invest in the interior control panel. I could run on or off anything from my kitchen.
We moved to Illinois in 2010. I miss my pool pretty much every day.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:13 am to TIGRLEE
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The you have a hybrid pool which is fiberglass wall and gunite floors
Link?
Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:15 am to Python
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Yes. The water isn't salt water. It's still chlorinated. Salt is used to generate the chlorine.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:19 am to TIGRLEE
This post was edited on 2/22/15 at 10:33 am
Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:23 am to BowDownToLSU
he said 21k gallon pool
not 21k dollars.
not 21k dollars.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:50 am to oldcharlie8
My parents have a fiberglass pool that they really like. Seems to be a good compromise between being nicer than a liner and cheaper than gunite, IMO.
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