I recently purchased a home with a pool. I continued pool service with the same company the previous owners used and they are charging $110/mo for someone to come once a week to service the pool, clean the debris, etc.
They also charged me a yearly “Spring Conditioning” at a cost of $50 annually which according to the invoice “provides 10-15 lbs of stabilizer during the swimming season, it enables salt generators to keep up with demand and or prevents you from having to add liquid chlorine between our summer visits.”
My pool is not a salt pool.
Volume is 15,000 gallons.
Dimensions are 16’x33′.
$110 seems about right. Reasonable or not is different for everyone. To me, it’s not, that’s why I decided to DIY the pool maintenance. Once you get the hang of it, it’s a synch.
[quote=AN]$110 seems about right. Reasonable or not is different for everyone. To me, it’s not, that’s why I decided to DIY the pool maintenance. Once you get the hang of it, it’s a synch.[/quote]
Not to mention the free skin peel with every pool party.
Then again, I’m with AN on the DIY thing. The salt generator helps a lot, just need to add couple of bags of salt when the salt generator shows it is running low. As for the debris, no debris issue with a pool cover.
We originally didn’t want a home with a pool but since the rest of the home was exactly what we were looking for, we settled with it anyway. I’ve read a couple of the posts on here about DIY pool maintenance and that’s the route I eventually want to go but not anytime soon. Having never dealt with a pool before, I just wanted to be sure it was reasonable. The monthly cost of $110 to service it weekly seems reasonable but the $50 annual conditioner fee seemed a bit high–considering it’d probably cost only $20 to do it myself and they are buying the chemicals in bulk.
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