re: Pool Build Cost

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2. Do not get a saltwater pool. Salt water will corrode everything. This also comes with an added cost of adding on a chlorine generator that takes the hcl and takes out the h to leave chlorine behind. People like them, but at the end of the day, you have a normal chlorine pool with water that is eating away at all of your equipment.

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spot on

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3. Get a sand filter, cartridge filters have to be constantly cleaned out/taken apart/pressure washed. To clean a sand filter, all you have to do is backwash.

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also spot on. the new house has a cartridge filter and i already HATE IT. our old pool had a sand filter and it was literally the most maintenance free part of our pool. i heard the sand will lose its 'edges' over time but we did *NOTHING* except backwash the whole time we had it.

super easy. by contrast the cartridge filters were filthy at our new house when we bought it and because i didnt have the time to learn how to do it i had a pool company come out and it took them at least 30 minutes to get everything taken apart properly and the water drained from the filter system and they took the catridges away for 2 days to properly clean them by submergring them in muriatic acid and then another 30 minutes to put everything back together.

pool was down for a week because they got busy and didn't come back for 6 days.

not sure how much expense we're talking but it seems like it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a second set of filters that you can just swap while you've got it open and then take your time properly cleaning the other ones..then swap them over the next time, etc.

wtf waldo. apparently i'll have to go through that shite process at least 2 or 3x a year. what a PITA. i'm already researching costs for swapping to a sand filter.