I'm being transferred to another city and one of the houses on my short list for location just happens to have a little in-ground concrete pool in the back yard. Something like a Fastlane would have to be installed in it to make it a true swimming pool. This being the Great White North, it probably would be usable from late May to mid-September only, unless I put a building over it.
How much work and expense is involved in operating a backyard pool? Is it worth the trouble? I'm assuming it's usable as the MLS photos showed it full of water.
My bro has a 35,000 gallon pool at his house in Phoenix and he loves it and this one requires almost zero maintenance. It's enormous for a home pool. Yeah this decision has so much to do with location. Having a pool in the greater Phoenix area is quite easy both because of the environment and because there's a huge & cheap "pool services" support infrastructure if you don't want to manage your pool yourself.
I'm seriously contemplating putting in a 2 lane, 25 meter pool in my backyard. I bought this house 5 years ago with an old play pool already in it, but a big empty patch of sand behind it. The play pool's at the state where it needs a significant overhaul (probably 15 to 20 years old), so I'm investigating costs to put the lap pool in and outfit it with solar heating.
Ripple, I get up to Alberta every year to visit my wife's family. I don't think it would ever make sense to put in a pool there unless you're rolling in enough excess dough to put it indoors. Plus, at least my experience, the public pool access seems quite good up in the great white north.
My bro has a 35,000 gallon pool at his house in Phoenix and he loves it and this one requires almost zero maintenance. It's enormous for a home pool. Yeah this decision has so much to do with location. Having a pool in the greater Phoenix area is quite easy both because of the environment and because there's a huge & cheap "pool services" support infrastructure if you don't want to manage your pool yourself.
I'm seriously contemplating putting in a 2 lane, 25 meter pool in my backyard. I bought this house 5 years ago with an old play pool already in it, but a big empty patch of sand behind it. The play pool's at the state where it needs a significant overhaul (probably 15 to 20 years old), so I'm investigating costs to put the lap pool in and outfit it with solar heating.
Ripple, I get up to Alberta every year to visit my wife's family. I don't think it would ever make sense to put in a pool there unless you're rolling in enough excess dough to put it indoors. Plus, at least my experience, the public pool access seems quite good up in the great white north.
