Yes, totally worth it. My H enjoys doing the maintenance, but there's not much. The system we installed pretty much takes care of itself. Also, pool services are super cheap around here. I don't have pictures handy to PIP, but it's a beach entry with a huge sunpad, and two more small pads in the deep end, with an eight-person hot tub. We spend quite a lot of time in it, and the lanai is more or less an extension of the house.
Having our pool is often nice (especially on week nights when our kids can swim for an hour while we grill dinner). And with a salt system it's not time-consuming or expensive. But if I had my choice, I would probably prefer to live in a community with a neighborhood pool.
The house we are looking at has a neighborhood pool too, but my husband has some kind of phobia over public pools.
The only thing I hate is my neighbor's giant tree with miniscule leaves and also the crepe myrtle in my yard with those stupidass berries and petals and leaves that RUIN my early spring/autumn.
I am so glad you told me that because I was thinking of adding crepe myrtles to the backyard landscaping. I guess any flowering or fruit trees are out.
The only thing I hate is my neighbor's giant tree with miniscule leaves and also the crepe myrtle in my yard with those stupidass berries and petals and leaves that RUIN my early spring/autumn.
I am so glad you told me that because I was thinking of adding crepe myrtles to the backyard landscaping. I guess any flowering or fruit trees are out.
Yeah, we have two redbuds that hang over the pool. Without the cover, it would be a total PITA.
We have a little 15' diameter above ground pool that has been built in a hole in the ground and surrounded by a nice wood deck. There's a solar heater piping system on the roof of the shed that contains all of the equipment and it works really well.
We wouldn't have put it in but it came with the house. It is pretty freaking awesome although we never feel as though we use it enough. We are looking forward to using it with kids some day.
Is your heating system expensive to run? We are in MA and will have an in ground pool next summer when we buy FIl's house. It would be great over a few more weeks of swimming in on each end of the season.
I think it is chlorine which I'm not thrilled about. I wonder how difficult it is to convert.
We have a pool, salt based, heater and hot tub connected. We are in So. Cal and maintaince is fairly easy DH can handle it on his own however; to make it easier on us we do have a pool maintaince company come to maintain everything for us. It's well worth it for us.
We have a little 15' diameter above ground pool that has been built in a hole in the ground and surrounded by a nice wood deck. There's a solar heater piping system on the roof of the shed that contains all of the equipment and it works really well.
We wouldn't have put it in but it came with the house. It is pretty freaking awesome although we never feel as though we use it enough. We are looking forward to using it with kids some day.
Is your heating system expensive to run? We are in MA and will have an in ground pool next summer when we buy FIl's house. It would be great over a few more weeks of swimming in on each end of the season.
I think it is chlorine which I'm not thrilled about. I wonder how difficult it is to convert.
The heating costs $0 annually. I'm not joking. There were probably costs upfront to purchase and install it, but it consists of a series of black pipes installed on the black roof of our shed. In the morning, DH diverts the water so half of it goes through the solar heater and half through the filtration system. At night we switch it back to the filter only. We leave our pump on 24 hrs a day since it reduces cleaning costs and costs 20 cents per day in electricity (worth it). The solar can take up the temperature 2 degrees Celsius in one hot sunny day. Our pool is more than hot enough after about 5 days of good weather in the spring.