Pain in the ass. Extra expense. Hidden problems.

Worth it in the summer. Relaxing.


When buying a house a pool is a negative to negotiate price. When selling it is a positive to negotiate price.

Just go to the neighborhood pool or know someone with a pool. They are constant maintenance and can be a money pit. Not worth it in my opinion.

Do you have young kids, then yes.

I pay $160/mo for weekly service.

If buying a house with one pay extra to have someone from a pool company do an inspection.

We pay next to nothing in maintenance costs. The robot does most of it. We’re fishing leaves now but that takes 10 min a day. It’s a salt pool so just drop a few chlorine tabs in the skimmer once a week.

We put $50-75 a month in a envelope to have the $$ when need new robot or when pump goes out.

Add $400 per month for maintenance, electricity, water loss, random pool toys, and misc crap that you don't need. And, hope the pump does not go out. If mine ever does, I am draining it and turning it into a skate park.

we had a pool built this summer. I'll never not have a pool again. I spend about an hour a week on it right now cleaning up leaves and such. I bring in a water sample once every 2-3 weeks. My only regret is not doing it sooner.

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we had a pool built this summer. I'll never not have a pool again. I spend about an hour a week on it right now cleaning up leaves and such. I bring in a water sample once every 2-3 weeks. My only regret is not doing it sooner.

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We are in the process of doing this right now. Our dig date will be in March.

We bought a house with a pool without ever having had a pool prior in our lives. We heard all the same from people saying they were work and costly to maintain. We love our pool and will probably always have a pool from now on. Can't imagine what we would do in our backyard if we did not have a pool as the pool creates a whole outside living experience.

From the nay sayers you have to know who they are are where there opinion is coming from. If you do not like doing any work around your house, don't like being outside much, and need everything to be a flip of the switch perfect for you then you will probably see a pool as a pain.

However, If your an outside person who like to do some work around the house do little projects here and there VS always hiring someone to do everything, then a pool will not be much work. We keep our pool clean year round and pay $130 month for once a week service. We used to do it all ourselves with not too much problems but the service helps take the brunt of the time now so we can skim leaves and do a little brushing here and there.

If your buying a house and the pool has newer plaster your good for several years. If the pool needs to be replastered or updated then it could be between $2k and $5k expense and that should last you 10+ years if properly maintained before you start thinking about another replaster job.

LINK

This is a good site for pool care. There is also a pool forum I used before that was really good but can't find it at the moment.

These sights got us away from the pool stores and that made our life much easier. We bought a good water test kit to test the water ourselves. This stopped the continuous sales pitches for every chemical in the pool store.

The second best thing we did is we use the concentrate bleach from the grocery store for our chlorine. This proved to make it really easy to keep the water test perfect to the point we only added about a gallon a week except in the hottest part of the summer we add a gallon maybe twice a week.

Get a friend with a pool, not a pool

Get a friend with a boat, not a boat