or not ?are they overrated...?


are they a waste of money if they dont add value to the house?

thanks(sorry if this has been done)...
aston

yes or

Great if you want to keep the kids happy/busy for an hour after school.

Aston m8 .Get one.Its part of the dream m8.We came back from Dream World today and the kids decided to go for an after dark swim .It was well muggy down here in QLD.Me an the Mrs were in our element having a few drinks watching the kids mess about in the pool.

ask this question again mate.... when it reaches 38 then you'll get a better response!

best thing we ever got...for us and the kids...at weekends we are always in it...big eski full of booze...music on...game of cards(we got waterproof ones)

Fantastic

Yep ...Next weekend we've got a pool party .Gonna do the works .Wham "Club Tropicana drinks are free" "Summertime" all them Summer hits (Summer Breeze etc..)Gonna have pinapple shells full of vodka and stuff ,
Basically , Yeah Aston GET A POOL >!!

and when the kids are in bed.....a wee midnight nudy swim famtastic lol

Definately .Midnight skinny dipping is why I came over here ..lol

Great to have one (ours is in a rental, so we're test driving) but they are quite a pain to maintain. And if/when water is a huge issue then it's gonna be expensive to top it up!

There's lots of little bits of a pool to consider, like chemicals, filters, equipment and i seem to spend a lot of time skimming the leaves/bugs from the surface (but we are near a lot of trees).

That said, there's nothing like coming home from work and running outside, stripping off as you go (a la Superman) and plunging in in your pants

Hmm, bit too much info maybe....

how much does it cost to maintain a pool???

God wouldn't be without mine

Girls were init April for eldest birthday then back in it for Oct for youngest birthday so that was 4 months that pool wasn't in use for!!! cool!!!


and once we have solar heating we should be able to use it for a couple of weeks more !!


if we ever move the place will have to have a pool



oh and as for cost!!

our elec bills are around $250 per quater and mininal chemicals!!!

and yes spelling is crap!!

I spend bugger all on chemicals...and as for keeping it clean...its a doddle doesnt take much time at all

Well, in the couple of months we've had ours we've had the pool shop in to put some tablets in (stabilisers @ $15) and the other day some bloke came around to do the monthly check and put $17 worth of something in

Are we being conned?

I put chlorine in every few days or so, and the bloke said to put acid in, which i haven't yet at all.

sounds like it to me


I take a sample to the pool shop get it done free, and add anything needed myslef last year I would say I put $50max of salt and chemicals in. At the beginning of the swimming season this year I put in less than a litre of acid ($10 for 5 litres) and that was it. Last few weeks nowt required....too easy

you can buy test strips out of Coles $12 for 50, I use them a couple times a week in the height of summer so its easy to know that the water is OK Its easy to do it yourself as long as you keep ontop of it