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Originally Posted by Happinow
I agree spk. We opened our pool about Memorial Day up North and used it until Labor Day. That's 3 months of use. And, probably only 1/2 the time the weather was good enough to swim. Plus with the leaves and pine needles dropping in the pool we had to vacuum twice a week and put chemicals in more often than I wanted to. We did have the automatic cleaner so it could just roam around and clean but we still had to hook it up. So, after only swimming in it for about 45 days total we had to drain the pool, the lines, put lots of chemicals in it to close for the winter, put all furniture away, take out diving board, ladders and hand rails and cover it. It was one full day of back breaking work. With a pool in TV we get to swim in it for probably 9 months a year, never have to cover it or put furniture away and with a salt pool it should be less maintenance. Plus we can swim when ever we want in the privacy of our own home. Now I call that sweet!
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Sounds pretty much like what we went through with our pool/spa in CT except that we had it open for about 6 months a year. Funny thing is that even though it was operating for 6 months that pool cost us more per year to operate than the pool/spa here that is open year round.
I understand your point about not having to put away the furniture here but we are not entirely out of the woods in that respect. Hopefully it is a rare event but when we first moved here all our lanai furniture was delivered two days after closing. One week later a tropical storm came through, went across the state and came back. So we had boxes of items, furniture and lanai furniture all over the inside of the house for three days. Guess we have our trials and tribulations no matter where we are.