Swimming Pool Costs
 

What is the average price to have a swimming pool/spa installed? Who do you recommend? Would like to have it installed as we build. Haven't decided on what model, but am trying to get all the numbers up front. Thanks for any intel.

Hi. I can tell you what we bought today but it's probably way more than you may want to do. We are putting a a 16x32 pool only. We put in concrete columns instead of the typical birdcage, we added about a 10 by 25 feet more of pool deck, we put a few upgrated accent tiles on it, 2 waterfall features and some ceramic scenes of tropical fish and coral which was about 25x40 inches on the "beach" part of the pool and added more tropical fish and shells on the steps of "beach" part of the pool. We also put a vinyl coated hand rail in and a hole for a beach umbrella on the "beach" part of the pool. This cost about $76,000. I'm quite sure you could put in a pool and spa for much less. We kinda went a little crazy but it's what we dreamed of so we got it. Good luck with your choice. We worked with T&D Pools and they will work with your budget and are wonderful to work with. Hope this helps.

Got a deal on my pool...
 

We are going to add a water element next year but for now we went for the tropical look.

What do think????

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You are too funny. I quite enjoy your humor!

Nice pool VG. I've been wait'in to try out my scuba gear for 3 month's now......

Swimming Pool Costs....
 

VG...Looks like the perfect spot for "Frogs" Indeed love the humor!!
Happinow I so enjoy your moment to moment updates... Your soon to be Home sounds like a dream!
Ebsmom & USNRet92 "Hoping to be a Villager in 2012"

New home adventure
 

Hi, sounds like a wild ride thru the process. I might have missed the beginning so I am asking where are you building this beautiful home? We are building later this year..

Hi. We are building in Sanibel on the golf course. This has been a wild ride but wouldn't change anything! What home are you thinking of? Welcome to my posts. :welcome:

Wild Ride!
 

We will be doing a Begonia on lot 81 Silk Tree Terrace. When we visited last November, the day we left a lot came back on the market. We loved the setting. It allowed for the stretches we wanted..
My second career here is in real estate and it is all about Location.. We could not help ourselves and after a 3 hr hold expired, it became ours. We will build this fall and will probably put a long term renter in it( much to the chagrin of my wife). My wife has 2 yrs to get her retirement from GE... Your posts have been helpful. Have fun we will see you on the trails!

Love that pool VG.

Pool
 

[QUOTE=The Village Girl;453952]We are going to add a water element next year but for now we went for the tropical look.

What do think????
I love it...but shouldn't the fish be inside the pool?



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[quote=tainsley;454028]Hi the fish are inside the pool. The beach area is actually a deck like area that is in shallow water so you can put a beach chair there and sit in the water. We thought it would be fun to put the fish there so they could be seen well. In deeper water, unless you go with a really huge design, which is big money, you can't see the fish very well. We wanted a pop of color without breaking the bank. The designs we picked were over 1,200 dollars. Didn't want to spend anymore. We saw this design in a photo on the beach area of a pool and it looked really nice.

Am I FINALLY going to get my indoor pool?
 

Hey Hap....it's me, Swimdawg.

Now.......as potential 'friends' ....don'tcha think you should enclose that pool....maybe lengthen the pool by perhaps 30 meters or so...perhaps add a huge whirlpool for my friends...and of course, maybe a sauna? :)

Your house sounds bee-you-tee-ful.

Think about enclosing the pool and "stretching" it a bit, though....so I can get my 1/2 mile in every morning during the cool weather.

I knew if I waited long enough....I'd finally get my indoor pool. :icon_wink:

I hate to think about going over to Village Girl's pool every morning. Just not into the "tropical" thing!

We looked at a home yesterday in Sanabel with a pool. The pool with a waterfall and large birdcage added $43,000 to the price of the home.

Yikes! Looks like I'll be bringing my Dukes of Hazzard plastic pool that I had when my nephews would come to visit me up north.

What would be the cost of maintaining such a pool yearly? Here in TV where the weather is warmer and germs grow faster? This question for someone who has maintained a pool here for a year??

How do you know that??

Why spend money on a pool when the villages has so many beautiful pools Had a pool to much work

We have a Hot-tub/spa. Easy to maintain $$$ wise....

Thanks
 

Thanks for the comments. Sounds like you're getting quite a bit for $76k and I'll keep T&D Pools on my list of contractors.

Why a pool?

They look and sound great with the waterfall. We are adding one to ours; not 76K but OK for 43K-50K.

Consider it a water feature.

My wife likes the one shown in the Lilac model and we'll see how much going with the cage with stucco columns vs. the typical is.

No idea what that one runs.

Why a pool?

Our summer condo is on Lake Michigan and we have owned it since 2000. My wife has never been in the Lake! OK maybe up to her ankles when she walks the beach.

The condo has both indoor and outdoor pools. You guessed it; maybe twice.

She really wants a pool; I hope she uses it.

Hello there,

First of all, I'm a former Ohioan, too. There are lots of us down here!

Some people we know added a pool recently and it's beautiful. They went through All Seasons Pools and said they were very happy working with them.

My husband and I are considering adding a pool and birdcage, too, so we're also interested in hearing from anyone who has a pool about what to expect in terms of average monthly costs. I don't know how much to expect from solar panels (someone observed that we have a large amount of space on the roof to accommodate them) and apparently some shapes of pools lend themselves to more efficiency from the cleaning systems, too. (Who knew?)

Wrong on pool costs
 

Sorry everyone. I misquoted our pool. It was 67,000 not 76,000, sorry! When we put our pool in about 15 years ago in NY, it was 30,000. Boy, how things have gone up. It didn't require a cage and it had no water feature or mosaic designs, but still....

We just put in a beautiful 12 x 24 pool with a 32 x 46 birdcage and solar panels for under $35000 and it will do us very nicely...........

Last time I went to all adult pool it was full of old people ...the fact that one of them was me didn't help much......

failing fumar.

heating or no heating?
 

Someone told me it isn't worth it to heat the pool.. it doesn't really do a sufficient job. Any thoughts? Also, if you were going to heat, I assume it is gas? What does installation cost and actual heating costs?

Hey Swim. We do have a cage over the pool. Now for your purpose, we should have made it an indoor pool, much longer, and open 24 hours! I will let you come in the pool cage door at your leisure so you can swim anytime. We should have some good times in this pool. Can't wait to have everyone over!

Boogie, I don't KNOW that but when the pool people told us the cost I was very surprised because our last pool was half that. I do think it's probably more than people want to spend. A lot of folks can't justify that amount for a pool when there are so many in TV. It's all part of what we envisioned for our final home so we did it. Each to their own.

Columns are around 2,000 each.

Hi. We will install solar panels and were told it would be about 4,000.

Pools are beautiful, but how much are they used?
 

I hate to point out the pee in the pool, but I only know of ONE person here that I have met who swims every day and that is SwimDawg. The only time I seek a pool is in the heat of summer. We lived adjacent to the Odell pool and went "swimming" a lot the first year, not so much the second and only go now when the kids come and visit or during the summers.


Am I alone on this one too?

Graciegirl, I'm with you. We've owned an inground pool in the past in NY, and we did use it frequently because of the short summer season. However, now that we have the availability of pools anytime of day or year, we rarely use it. In fact, one thing I've noted as an avid golfer is that few of the pools are being used in houses on the golf course. It's an added expense that we really didn't think we needed.

Average cost to maintain a pool. I budget 5K a year. Actual so far has been about $4200. That includes T&D weekly service, added cost of electricity and water, and maintenance and service. I have solar and gas heat and keep the pool at 88 degrees.

Pool maintenance is that high?
 

WOW. Is it the heating that drives it up or the cost of the salt water men coming to maintain it? I may reconsider putting in a pool.

No, you're not. My story on using the pools is almost identical to yours, except my one grandchild hasn't been to visit yet. My wife and I rarely go to the pool anymore. We would go to relax and get some sun, but the "regulars" talk incessantly in such a loud volume that it gets a bit annoying after a time.

My wife longs for her own pool where she can be relaxing in it, in peace, anytime her heart desires. In NJ her brother who lived 10 minutes away has a pool and we were there often and she would be in that pool all day. Here there would be no "pool closing" as in NJ, so even better for her.

I have an estimate of around $40,000 from T&D for a 16X24 foot pool with a large birdcage area and solar heating. When I ready I'm going to get estimates from Advanced Construction and All Seasons also.

As for the maintenance keep in mind the parts you don't see very often...the pumps, the motors, the filters, the salt generators.

Gas heaters have a life of 6 - 10 years....I have replaced one at 7 years...the big one for the pool...$4000-$6000!!!

Filter housings....I replaced one of those too...$500.

Pool pump motor at 6 years...$700.

If you have a solar system the panels and piping are exposed full blast to the sun which dries them out and cracks form. I have had panels repaired twice the last two years, fortunately the panels we bought have a 10 year warranty.
And we have had one of the elbows in the piping split.

Remember theses components do regular duty many, many hours out of a day and they are almost all exposed to the elements 24/7 with the sun being the most destructive.

Make sure you or your control for the system has a freeze protection cycle or you will be replacing components from our occasional freezes here in TV.

Do not cut corners and try to reduce the price of your installation by using anything but the very best pool equipment.....and check and clean them often.

btk

Thank you Billie. This is just the kind of information a "never had a pool" owner like me needs. It's much appreciated.

I would guess that a lot of your cost is in gas heat and service. In almost 4yrs of living in this house we have spent between $1,500 - $1,800 per year to maintain our pool/spa. From April to October the pool water temp is generally at least 85 and we rarely use the heater except for the spa. Using a salt system we chose to do our own service which saves us a lot.

Does building a swimming pool to your house raise your taxes in Florida?

We just had a spa, birdcage, and summer kitchen put in. Had T & D do everything who we worl VERY MUCH RECOMMEND. The quality and alsways insuring it is done how YOU what it done.
Ok, here is the breakdown as best I can in whole numbers:
Spa-$12,000
Birdcage-$7,000
Summer Kitchen-$21,000
The monthly fee for T&D Pool Service is $60.00 a month for a spa, and they do everything. They even wash the whole inside of the birdcage down every two weeks. Very happy with them, and yes, they provide all chemicals etc in that fee.

Army Guy

Is $60.00 a month normal for spa service? We maintain our own spa here and it's about $100.00 a year. That seems high to me. And I think I can wash down my own birdcage pretty easy.