Pros and cons of having a pool… and how much $$$/month to maintain pool?

[jficquette]

[quote=qwerty007]$500 a month! That’s crazy. You don’t need to heat a pool in California. I thought the idea was to cool down. I’d tell my family, take it or leave it.[/quote]

I had a 30000 gallon pool. I heated it once in the spring and then let it settle to the average temp which was about 75 degrees. 75 degrees is too cold to enjoy for adults but kids can handle it.

It cost me about $250 a month to run the pumps plus another $100 a month to have a guy come clean it.

My neighbor had a smaller pool but kept it heated to 85 degrees. His said it cost him about $600 a month to keep it heated. He was a retired MD and had figured it out using the horsepower of the pump motors and applying the electric rates to it. He also figured out how much gas it took to heat it. With in reason that is. I am sure it wasn’t exact.

I will never get another pool. Just too expensive and wasteful for me.

John

[temeculaguy]

It depends on the age of your kids, if they are already young teens and you don’t really like pools then you will be saddled with it, once the kids get cars, they get their own lives. I had one, like sc, I loved it but put it in when the kids were little and got ten good years out of it before it became infrequently used. Like patiently mentioned, if it’s pretty and you have some sort of waterfall from the jacuzzi to the pool, the sounds alone make cigar smoking more fun. If you do it, get a spa as well, I used that more than the pool. I agree that they basically free when buying right now, so what the heck, but dropping 50k on one is probably a bad call. Heating was never costly, chems are cheap, it’s easy to do yourself but the pumps have to be run every day for hours, I’d say $200 in electric. I had my pool house a year and then put in the pool, it doubled my electric. Like most things, the old ones aren’t efficient, if you buy a house with a 20 year old filtration/pump system, it will be an electricity whore. I’m told the newer ones are much cheaper to run. The compromise is an hoa with a pool as opposed to the Y or a city pool, but it all comes down to economics, do you have the money? If a pool is going to cut into your food money, don’t do it, if it is going to mean you will only get to go to hawaii twice instead of three times, who cares. If it means driving a ford and having a pool or a bmw and no pool, get the pool. Maintenance wise, it’s probably a draw when compared to a lawn.

If you do put one in or buy a house with one, run electric and cable out to the spa and put in a t.v. out there. The one thing I miss is sitting in the spa, buck naked, with a bottle wine and cigar, watching the laker game on a tuesday night. Some luxuries in life cannot be given a dollar value.

[temeculaguy]

It depends on the age of your kids, if they are already young teens and you don’t really like pools then you will be saddled with it, once the kids get cars, they get their own lives. I had one, like sc, I loved it but put it in when the kids were little and got ten good years out of it before it became infrequently used. Like patiently mentioned, if it’s pretty and you have some sort of waterfall from the jacuzzi to the pool, the sounds alone make cigar smoking more fun. If you do it, get a spa as well, I used that more than the pool. I agree that they basically free when buying right now, so what the heck, but dropping 50k on one is probably a bad call. Heating was never costly, chems are cheap, it’s easy to do yourself but the pumps have to be run every day for hours, I’d say $200 in electric. I had my pool house a year and then put in the pool, it doubled my electric. Like most things, the old ones aren’t efficient, if you buy a house with a 20 year old filtration/pump system, it will be an electricity whore. I’m told the newer ones are much cheaper to run. The compromise is an hoa with a pool as opposed to the Y or a city pool, but it all comes down to economics, do you have the money? If a pool is going to cut into your food money, don’t do it, if it is going to mean you will only get to go to hawaii twice instead of three times, who cares. If it means driving a ford and having a pool or a bmw and no pool, get the pool. Maintenance wise, it’s probably a draw when compared to a lawn.

If you do put one in or buy a house with one, run electric and cable out to the spa and put in a t.v. out there. The one thing I miss is sitting in the spa, buck naked, with a bottle wine and cigar, watching the laker game on a tuesday night. Some luxuries in life cannot be given a dollar value.

[temeculaguy]

It depends on the age of your kids, if they are already young teens and you don’t really like pools then you will be saddled with it, once the kids get cars, they get their own lives. I had one, like sc, I loved it but put it in when the kids were little and got ten good years out of it before it became infrequently used. Like patiently mentioned, if it’s pretty and you have some sort of waterfall from the jacuzzi to the pool, the sounds alone make cigar smoking more fun. If you do it, get a spa as well, I used that more than the pool. I agree that they basically free when buying right now, so what the heck, but dropping 50k on one is probably a bad call. Heating was never costly, chems are cheap, it’s easy to do yourself but the pumps have to be run every day for hours, I’d say $200 in electric. I had my pool house a year and then put in the pool, it doubled my electric. Like most things, the old ones aren’t efficient, if you buy a house with a 20 year old filtration/pump system, it will be an electricity whore. I’m told the newer ones are much cheaper to run. The compromise is an hoa with a pool as opposed to the Y or a city pool, but it all comes down to economics, do you have the money? If a pool is going to cut into your food money, don’t do it, if it is going to mean you will only get to go to hawaii twice instead of three times, who cares. If it means driving a ford and having a pool or a bmw and no pool, get the pool. Maintenance wise, it’s probably a draw when compared to a lawn.

If you do put one in or buy a house with one, run electric and cable out to the spa and put in a t.v. out there. The one thing I miss is sitting in the spa, buck naked, with a bottle wine and cigar, watching the laker game on a tuesday night. Some luxuries in life cannot be given a dollar value.

[temeculaguy]

It depends on the age of your kids, if they are already young teens and you don’t really like pools then you will be saddled with it, once the kids get cars, they get their own lives. I had one, like sc, I loved it but put it in when the kids were little and got ten good years out of it before it became infrequently used. Like patiently mentioned, if it’s pretty and you have some sort of waterfall from the jacuzzi to the pool, the sounds alone make cigar smoking more fun. If you do it, get a spa as well, I used that more than the pool. I agree that they basically free when buying right now, so what the heck, but dropping 50k on one is probably a bad call. Heating was never costly, chems are cheap, it’s easy to do yourself but the pumps have to be run every day for hours, I’d say $200 in electric. I had my pool house a year and then put in the pool, it doubled my electric. Like most things, the old ones aren’t efficient, if you buy a house with a 20 year old filtration/pump system, it will be an electricity whore. I’m told the newer ones are much cheaper to run. The compromise is an hoa with a pool as opposed to the Y or a city pool, but it all comes down to economics, do you have the money? If a pool is going to cut into your food money, don’t do it, if it is going to mean you will only get to go to hawaii twice instead of three times, who cares. If it means driving a ford and having a pool or a bmw and no pool, get the pool. Maintenance wise, it’s probably a draw when compared to a lawn.

If you do put one in or buy a house with one, run electric and cable out to the spa and put in a t.v. out there. The one thing I miss is sitting in the spa, buck naked, with a bottle wine and cigar, watching the laker game on a tuesday night. Some luxuries in life cannot be given a dollar value.

[temeculaguy]

It depends on the age of your kids, if they are already young teens and you don’t really like pools then you will be saddled with it, once the kids get cars, they get their own lives. I had one, like sc, I loved it but put it in when the kids were little and got ten good years out of it before it became infrequently used. Like patiently mentioned, if it’s pretty and you have some sort of waterfall from the jacuzzi to the pool, the sounds alone make cigar smoking more fun. If you do it, get a spa as well, I used that more than the pool. I agree that they basically free when buying right now, so what the heck, but dropping 50k on one is probably a bad call. Heating was never costly, chems are cheap, it’s easy to do yourself but the pumps have to be run every day for hours, I’d say $200 in electric. I had my pool house a year and then put in the pool, it doubled my electric. Like most things, the old ones aren’t efficient, if you buy a house with a 20 year old filtration/pump system, it will be an electricity whore. I’m told the newer ones are much cheaper to run. The compromise is an hoa with a pool as opposed to the Y or a city pool, but it all comes down to economics, do you have the money? If a pool is going to cut into your food money, don’t do it, if it is going to mean you will only get to go to hawaii twice instead of three times, who cares. If it means driving a ford and having a pool or a bmw and no pool, get the pool. Maintenance wise, it’s probably a draw when compared to a lawn.

If you do put one in or buy a house with one, run electric and cable out to the spa and put in a t.v. out there. The one thing I miss is sitting in the spa, buck naked, with a bottle wine and cigar, watching the laker game on a tuesday night. Some luxuries in life cannot be given a dollar value.

[outtamojo]

Thanks for all well thought out replies- it’s great to get the perspective of those who have been through this. Now, of course, it’s gonna be up to the wife : )

[outtamojo]

Thanks for all well thought out replies- it’s great to get the perspective of those who have been through this. Now, of course, it’s gonna be up to the wife : )

[outtamojo]

Thanks for all well thought out replies- it’s great to get the perspective of those who have been through this. Now, of course, it’s gonna be up to the wife : )

[outtamojo]

Thanks for all well thought out replies- it’s great to get the perspective of those who have been through this. Now, of course, it’s gonna be up to the wife : )

[outtamojo]

Thanks for all well thought out replies- it’s great to get the perspective of those who have been through this. Now, of course, it’s gonna be up to the wife : )

[kicksavedave]

“A pool… a pond… a pond would be good for you!”

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[kicksavedave]

“A pool… a pond… a pond would be good for you!”

🙂

[kicksavedave]

“A pool… a pond… a pond would be good for you!”

🙂

[kicksavedave]

“A pool… a pond… a pond would be good for you!”

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