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$50 site donor 2024
Ahh yes, pool ownership. Most every pool owner I've ever come across says the same thing. Back in 1997 when we moved into the last house had, we both wanted a pool. (Neither of us ever had one). So we went ahead and put in a nice Pebble Tech pool, with the automatic Caretaker in ground floor cleaning system with the pop up heads, and a nice rock waterfall.
The first year we were in it most every day throughout the Summer. The next year I would say we averaged about once a week during the weekend. The year after that, once a month..... Maybe.
By the third year we were lucky if we went in 3 times all year. After that almost never. But the cost and maintenance never stopped. Buying heavy, never ending buckets of chlorine tablets, acid, PH testing strips. Constantly cleaning and backwashing filters. Scrubbing calcium off tiles. Replacing pumps and filters. Name it.
When we sold the place 3 years ago the pool was in good shape, and the real estate agent said it really helped in both the sale itself, and the price. (The new buyers wanted a pool badly). I'm guessing right about now they're wishing the thing didn't exist.
Today there are actually places in the Phoenix area that will fill in your pool, and cover it with concrete, and build a deck over it. Their business is thriving. The 2 greatest days in owning a pool, are like the 2 greatest days in boating..... The day you buy it. And the day you sell it.
The problem with the pool is you have to sell the house along with it.
Pretty much the same - and this year the chemical prices are outrageous