re: Pool Build Cost

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Great information. I know the fiberglass is a lot faster process. We have friends that did gunite and it took 6 months and their yard is a wreck

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doing my second gunite pool currently. First one in 2017 was 16x42 with built in hot tub with waterfall, 2 deck jets, tanning ledge and 2 bubblers.....spent 67k all in before i added a little more concrete, think i was 72 in the end. this was greek type with the round ends and round hot tub.

current is 18x40 square, square hot tub and a 12x12 tanning ledge...gonna be 100ish all in. has water fall, 3 deck jets.

1st one i did not do anything but concrete around it and had travertine as the coping, this one has my house brick as the coping and it comes off the pool with 2 bricks wide strips that go to the brick porch, between the brick dividers is the turf.

first pool was salt water, this is chlorine. both with cartridge filters which are easy as frick to clean. I liked salt but it does eat everything around the pool, is a pain in the fricking arse to clean the salt generator with acid and the generators are getting harder and harder to get.

both those are easy as frick to keep clean now a days.

first pool took about 10 weeks but that was more because hurricane harvey hit and collapsed it so had to be dug back out. this one will be under 6 weeks so not sure why your friends took that long. if i wasnt doing brick, this one would have been under a month.

this is the first pool