Wife wants one. She cain't ride a horse no more because of degenerative disks in her back so we is gonna sell house and acreage next year and build a house w/ a pool so she can kick her legs and hopefully not get skin cancer. Thinking this thing must be heated. ? Advice and experience appreciated.
I had one in Montgomery AL. Royal pain in the arse. Expensive chemicals, keeping it clean and balanced, bugs, toads, snakes fall in, high water bills, etc. My advice? Get a hot tub. Therapeutic and sexy.
It might be less of a headache/expense to buy a house with a pool already installed. That being said, the new salt water pools are supposed to be pretty cool. A bit more expensive initially, but cheaper than chemicals long run. Thats all I got. Oh yeah, pool party at PH's house!
Well, if I went with the hot tub she might bust her head coming off the diving board. She wants a dang pool. I'm thinking it's about even between building a house and pool or buying a house with pool... If I built at least I would get what I wanted. Maybe.
sorry, i've been at the VA med ctr in south dallas most the morning yes, i have one.....LOVE LOVE LOVE it costly? yeah, it does drain a bit of money out of the checkbook i'm sure one day i'll grow tired of it, but i dont see that day coming anytime soon i pay a pool service 49 bucks a month to do the chemicals, and from discussions i've had with other friends who have pools, this is about equal to what you'd shell out over monthly over a year (much more than 49 in the summer, but much less in the winter) heating an entire pool is BIG $$$$.......heating a hottub attached, not quite as much
the one we had when I was growing up wasn't heated but the solar blanket we used kept the temp where we wanted it during the spring and summer
So perhaps a heated pool WITH this solar blanket would be affordable? It would keep the heat in, I presume.
where do you live? if you live in texas or oklahoma, you wont need a heated pool unless you ABSOLUTELY need it for swimming between october and april right now the water temp in my pool is around 60....it dropped down to 50 when we had our freeze......anything below 80 is **** shrinking temperature during the summer, the temp is between 80 and 90 and feels great i would think if you had a decent hot tub for the winter, that would be enough the solar blanket floats on the water and helps bring the temp up from the winter months
Tulsa, and wife has dream of using it as year round as possible. I spose a pool salesman will sort this out, right...
I agree with Okla-homey. We had a pool for about 15 years. I had it taken out last year and replaced it with a hot tub. No regrets here.
We have one...but so does everybody else in Fla. The chemicals do cost a little, but if you are diligent and keep up with balance of the water, that will help. I have kids so of course we love it...at least for the first 3 months of summer. My kids are usually tired of it by May or June. I am really on the fence as to wether or not I would do it again. In the summer months it is AWSOME...it the winter, not so much.
