SEC=UGA Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 We have a pool and a pond. A pond would be good for you. You live in Bushwood CC also? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 You live in Bushwood CC also? canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt770 Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 Update: bought a house with an in-ground chlorine pool, vinyl liner. Observations: August was ridiculously hot and dry, even by Atlanta standards. We were in the pool every day and most evenings too. I took a week off for the move and the pool was awesome when I was outside unpacking stuff in the shed (and repairing shingles on the shed which was like working on the surface of the sun). I'd take a dip every hour. It's refreshing and invigorating. A pool is a great thing to have. We will get tons of use out of it. Anything having to do with a pool, whether it's a chemical, piece of equipment or recreational item, costs 4 times what it should. Owning a pool is indeed very expensive. Our pool cleaner is a POS and I want one of those robotic things with the wheels that cruises around vacuuming up debris. We're talking $700. A cover would have been nice. Quotes for a custom safety cover are coming in at $2-3K. I can't justify that expense right now after what we spent on the move, so I'm dealing with the leaves which is a major pain in the ass. Winterizing vs. letting the pump run all winter is a conundrum I'm wrestling with at the moment. Leaning toward running the pump and praying for no power outages that occur during a major freeze. I ran the pump 24x7 at first because I didn't know any better. Now I run it about 8 hours a day and the electric bills are less horrifying. As predicted, family and friends seem slightly more enthusiastic about visiting than I would normally expect. But at the same time we are looking forward to entertaining. The whole pool/patio experience, grilling, shooting the sh*t, eating, swimming, drinking, swimming, is a lot of fun with guests. We definitely want to switch over to salt at some point, but it's not a priority for next season. I'll buy the cover before I do that, and the cost is about the same. The pool attracts dozens of hughmongous hairy gray spiders that freak me out when I go to remove the filter cartridges. I have also removed a dead snake from the filter basket and a dead lizard from the bottom of the pool. My wife sees me outside cleaning the leaves/filter cartridges constantly and says she wished she didn't insist on the pool. I say I'm glad we have it and I think it's going to give us years of enjoyment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Update: bought a house with an in-ground chlorine pool, vinyl liner. Observations: August was ridiculously hot and dry, even by Atlanta standards. We were in the pool every day and most evenings too. I took a week off for the move and the pool was awesome when I was outside unpacking stuff in the shed (and repairing shingles on the shed which was like working on the surface of the sun). I'd take a dip every hour. It's refreshing and invigorating. A pool is a great thing to have. We will get tons of use out of it. Anything having to do with a pool, whether it's a chemical, piece of equipment or recreational item, costs 4 times what it should. Owning a pool is indeed very expensive. Our pool cleaner is a POS and I want one of those robotic things with the wheels that cruises around vacuuming up debris. We're talking $700. A cover would have been nice. Quotes for a custom safety cover are coming in at $2-3K. I can't justify that expense right now after what we spent on the move, so I'm dealing with the leaves which is a major pain in the ass. Winterizing vs. letting the pump run all winter is a conundrum I'm wrestling with at the moment. Leaning toward running the pump and praying for no power outages that occur during a major freeze. I ran the pump 24x7 at first because I didn't know any better. Now I run it about 8 hours a day and the electric bills are less horrifying. As predicted, family and friends seem slightly more enthusiastic about visiting than I would normally expect. But at the same time we are looking forward to entertaining. The whole pool/patio experience, grilling, shooting the sh*t, eating, swimming, drinking, swimming, is a lot of fun with guests. We definitely want to switch over to salt at some point, but it's not a priority for next season. I'll buy the cover before I do that, and the cost is about the same. The pool attracts dozens of hughmongous hairy gray spiders that freak me out when I go to remove the filter cartridges. I have also removed a dead snake from the filter basket and a dead lizard from the bottom of the pool. My wife sees me outside cleaning the leaves/filter cartridges constantly and says she wished she didn't insist on the pool. I say I'm glad we have it and I think it's going to give us years of enjoyment. Your pool sounds like a ton of work. I pay a pool guy to come once a week to take care of everything and it's pretty much non-maintenance for me. It's worth the $85 a month to me. Run the pump every night for about 8 hours in the off peak hours. I don't think it really affects the electric bill much at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt770 Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 Your pool sounds like a ton of work. I pay a pool guy to come once a week to take care of everything and it's pretty much non-maintenance for me. It's worth the $85 a month to me. Run the pump every night for about 8 hours in the off peak hours. I don't think it really affects the electric bill much at all. Does that include all chemicals? I'm in if I can get a similar deal here. Do you winterize and does the $85 cover that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 (edited) Does that include all chemicals? I'm in if I can get a similar deal here. Do you winterize and does the $85 cover that? Includes standard chemicals. Paid him a bit extra a couple times to shock the pool when we had a couple of our bigger dust storms a couple of times. Also paid him one time $50 to pull apart the filter cartridges and clean it up. Probably something i need to do a couple of times a year due to the dust storms. Keep in my mind my pool is not huge, just a pebbletec play pool. Maybe 20 X 35 or something and 5 1/2 ft deep. I run it the same all winter. Edited November 16, 2011 by CaP'N GRuNGe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I pay a pool guy to come once a week to take care of everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 He's very discrete and even brings his own acid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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