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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
You are not tracking all your cost. Just the water and electric is higher then that. I have our home with a pool and a rental property about the same size with no pool. So I have very accurate data that shows the real cost. Everything with the pool equipment is expensive. I have one new pump and the new one is now 3 years old and will go soon. And our wonderful elected light bulb police have now determined we have to have "special" pool motors that in order to pump the water to the roof for the solar panels has to be much larger and cost over $1000 for a new pump. Old one was around $550.
If you put in a pool, plan on 5K a year to support it. You are only fooling yourself if you think it's any less. Track ALL cost. T&D cleaning service, water, electric and maintenance.
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And I will respectfully disagree with you as we do also track all of our costs. Since we have a salt pool, which requires minimal service, we do the service ourselves thus saving the cost of having T&D or anyone else perform weekly service. The pool pump costs $0.26 cents per hour to run. That figure came from a SECO audit that we had done on our house back in October 2008. For five months the filter runs five hours per day and the other seven months it runs for nine hours. That comes out to a cost of about $700 per year to run the pool filter but as the filter ages and cost of electricity goes up I suspect that figure is a little bit higher. As for the filter pump it froze in 2010 and had to be replaced. Since it was under warranty the cost to us was $0 and the new pump came with a 5yr warranty.
Having said all of that I do not doubt your costs but I do believe lower costs, from what you are seeing, to operate a pool are possible.