I think pool stores drive people away from pools by making poor recommendations, artificially inflating the cost of pool maintenance.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hass" <hassd...@gmail.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:30:37 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Swimming Pools We have a freshwater pool here in Indiana. We get 5 months out of it, with some heating at the front and back end. We add water most Augusts/Septembers once the nights get cooler and you have more evaporation, but that adds only $25-50 to our water bill in those months. We haven't converted to saltwater because there seems to be no need. We spend maybe $7-$8 a week on chemicals, and I buy all the chemicals (liquid chlorine, muriatic acid, Borax/soda ash--those are literally all you need until you winterize) at Ace Hardware or Lowe's. We moved away from using stabilized chlorine tablets or shocks as they just resulted in using more and more chemicals and having to maintain much higher chlorine levels because the pool ended up overstabilized with CYA values that were off the charts. As for cleaning, we invested $1200 in a Dolphin robot pool cleaner. I throw it in the pool once a week, twice when the cottonwood is blowing around. I might spend 15-20 minutes a week maintaining the pool. I'd vote for doing it. Doug Hass Chair, Association of Corporate Counsel Employment and Labor Law Network hassd...@gmail.com (847) 957-1061 On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:20 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies < m...@mailmt.com > wrote: In FL it is an unwritten rule every house should have an in ground pool. We have had one for 20+ years. I do the salt deal. Really like it. Not very much maintenance. Of course we don't have to winterize and with the solar heaters, we get a good 9 months of use. We had some of our family from the mid-west using it when they were down for Thanksgiving. When the kids were younger it would be used every day during the summer. Now my wife will use it about 4 days a week for low impact exercise when it is warm enough. All that being said, I would never rip it out of the ground. With just a bit of modification, it would make a great koi pond. -- Best regards, Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com Myakka Technologies, Inc. www.Myakka.com ------ Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 10:46:45 AM, you wrote: A friend of mine owns a company that does nothing but remove in-ground pools. On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:44 AM dave via AF < af@af.afmug.com > wrote: Around here the above ground pool doesnt de-value the property due to possible removal if wanted. In ground pools here sell for much less than a home without one here. There are some really nice above ground systems but the only thing I would be concerned with is the decking or construction to go with it because it would induce more maint unless you went with composite 100% On 1/20/20 9:03 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Neighbor’s house finally sold. In ground heated saltwater pool, according to the MLS listing. I don’t know about lower maintenance. It seemed like they had the pool service truck there on a weekly basis. Plus 2 days in fall to prep it for winter. https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/il/glen-ellyn/632-north-main-st/pid_30963397/ (that’s my much more modest house visible at the right of the photo) Maybe a pool table instead of a pool? Of course, come to think of it, a customer recently bought a big house where the only thing the previous owner left behind was the pool table. I guess those things are a bitch to move. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 7:36 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Swimming Pools A customer of mine had a retracting glass roof over the pool area, that was pretty nice. The salt water pools are lower maintenance and healthier from what my friends that have them have told me. On Monday, January 20, 2020, < ch...@wbmfg.com > wrote: I have a friend that put it inside. Another friend did a salt water pool due to supposedly low maintenance. Not sure about that technology. Hmmmm. I have an elevation and a patio area that is conducive to being an outdoor extension of a pool deck. From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 6:26 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Swimming Pools Definitely. Put it inside On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:22 PM Bill Prince < part15...@gmail.com > wrote: Put a roof on it and keep your home theater and gym in there. When we had one, it was used more for friends and family than we did for ourselves. We don't have one here, and I'm fine with that. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/20/2020 5:07 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Considering adding a pool to my home. Worth it? Desert Utah. Lots of blowing dust year around. Only 3-4 months of weather suitable for use. Would I use it much? I don’t use my home theater much. I don’t use my home gym much. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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