re: Pool Owners step inside

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Maybe get someone to keep and eye

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I use the puck style. I have chlorine with a UV light system.

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CYA could be high. If so your chlorine level needs to be higher. Shock isn’t necessary if chlorine level is correct for your CYA level. Troublefreepool.com is a great resource and you don’t have to use bleach but you do need to understand the chemistry. Pucks are convenient but convenience always comes at a price (CYA).

1. BR, so basically never. I have to pump my damp pool out, usually, so i dont flood my flowerbeds.
2. Only if i miss a chlorine addition and have a small bloom.
3. never. you should SLAM your pool, and if you properly maintain your levels you should never have to shock.

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Salt water fiberglass pool. Super easy to maintain.



What would ne of these run see days?

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These days it's a lot more than what I paid several years ago. Pool, pump, lights, tile, deck, etc was $43K when I had it installed. It would cost me closer to $60K for the same setup today.

Not sure I can answer that question, but here's my long winded answer. Ha. I've had the best luck negotiating contracts by being sincerely nice and making the appearance that you're doing what you can on your side to get the price down before trying to get them to reduce their price arbitrarily. If you are somewhat hard headed and high maintenance acting, they tend to see you as a future problem so I shy away from that negotiating style.

Before she calculated the quote, we all took bets on the quote, and she actually agreed with our number more or less and the calculated amount was $12k more. We're not wildly off on budget vs quote, but 12k isn't a small amount per se.

We had 3 costly requirements which were pebbletech ($5k) additional decking ($7k) and the hot tub ($14k). The wife wants pebbletech and the hot tub and those aren't negotiable. Removing the decking creates some maintenance concerns with me so I didn't want to remove that. We played with the sizing but it didn't move the needle enough. Ultimately we decided we'd rather pay the extra amount and keep those items. As she was leaving she mentioned that she would talk to her GM and see if he would be willing to reduce the price a little closer to our budgeted number and the next day she came back with $90k. Our goal was $85k.

The rest of the cost centers on the breakdown were not enough to move the quote material amounts (everything was less than $1,000, most less than $500). They were over our original self set budget by $12k and honestly I think the lady was nice and wanted to do our pool. So she came back within $5k over our budgeted price and threw in an electronic cleaner which helps bridge some of that $5k value further. It's the quote we will likely go with unless the last company bids something we can't turn down. We are also in the county so there is no permit or HOA paperwork, which I'm sure are factored into their price. So they may have foregone those cost centers and knocked a little extra off.

Definitely get multiple bids. We had another one last night. Nice girl, young, but she couldn't design the pool on sight and we touched on pricing and it seems like the bid is going to be well over $100k. But we will see. Have one more coming next Tuesday that my sister used and liked, so we will see with him also.

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Can someone explain the benefit of the salt systems?

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Cheaper and easier to maintain, while also being better for your skin and hair.

i have had both, both are about the same to maintain and cost about the same overall

i like things about both but to me any positive about with salt is outweighed with having to clean and replace salt cells and the constant corrosion of any metal around a salt water pool vs chlorine.

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I've put 2 bags of salt in my pool this calendar year. Other than that, less than 5 minutes a week.

I'm not saying there's zero maintenance, but it's so miniscule and easy to do, I wouldn't go any other way besides salt.

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So I can only speak for my experience and the difference between 15 minutes and a few minutes a week of pseudo work (mostly done with beer in my hand) and a 50lb bucket of chlorine a year just isn't worth shelling out the extra for salt in my situation.

Do you have trees or vegetation around your pool? I didn't have any trees around my pool. Closest one was like 50 or 60 yards away. Seems like plants are what causes more problems with pools than anything else.