[graciegirl]

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??

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Happinow

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.

How do you know that??

[birdawg]

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

[jsw14]

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

[mac6115cd]

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.

[keithwand]

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.

[sands]

Originally Posted by mac6115cd

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.

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?)

[Happinow]

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....

[The Great Fumar]

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.

[shcisamax]

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?

[Happinow]

Originally Posted by swimdawg

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.

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

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!

[Happinow]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

How do you know that??

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.

[Happinow]

Originally Posted by keithwand

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.

Columns are around 2,000 each.

[Happinow]

Originally Posted by shcisamax

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?

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

[graciegirl]

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?