Swimming pools
May 23rd 2010, 4:15 pm
#32
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Re: Swimming pools
I don't get the "too much work" or "too expensiveto run" comments, must be from people who don't have one are are jealous 
Only real cost is power to run the pumps and heater if you have one.
Only real cost is power to run the pumps and heater if you have one.
May 23rd 2010, 9:04 pm
#33
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Re: Swimming pools
The reason I said that they were too much hassle is that my aunt had one when she lived in Sydney's Western Suburbs (where it's really HOT in the summer). Even though her 3 kids were young at the time, she said it was still a huge hassle and she'd never buy a house with a pool again. Never having had a pool I have no idea if it really is a hassle but there are so many pools, beaches and ocean baths in Australia that I never saw going for a swim on a hot day as being a difficult thing to do (at least in Sydney).
May 24th 2010, 11:07 pm
#34
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Re: Swimming pools
We got our first pool just a few years ago. Never again 
Unless it is looked after very carefully, it may need tons of work.
When it rains heavily, you need to increase the chlorine or something, or the pool goes green.
The leaves fall in the pool and need clearing out, or the filter clogs up.
We had a Chemigen, and that played up so much that I was a regular in our local pool shop every week.
According to some locals, having a pool increases the property value if you are selling to a new migrant, but decreases the value if a local is buying.
I never understood that before.... but now.... well, I must be becoming a local.
Unless it is looked after very carefully, it may need tons of work.
When it rains heavily, you need to increase the chlorine or something, or the pool goes green.
The leaves fall in the pool and need clearing out, or the filter clogs up.
We had a Chemigen, and that played up so much that I was a regular in our local pool shop every week.
According to some locals, having a pool increases the property value if you are selling to a new migrant, but decreases the value if a local is buying.
I never understood that before.... but now.... well, I must be becoming a local.
May 25th 2010, 9:27 am
#35
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Re: Swimming pools
I know absolutely naff all about pools but I don't need to. I take a sample to the pool shop now and again and they give me stuff to chuck in it. Apart from that, I scoop out leaves and clear leaves from the skimmer box. Done a backwash a couple of times under instruction from the pool shop man. All it involved was turning a handle so not too much to cope with.
No hassle at all, lovely to look out of the window and think "bloody hell, that's my pool" and great for the kids (and me to sit at the side dangling my legs in and drinking a beer).
No hassle at all, lovely to look out of the window and think "bloody hell, that's my pool" and great for the kids (and me to sit at the side dangling my legs in and drinking a beer).
May 25th 2010, 1:02 pm
#36
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Re: Swimming pools
This is one of the reasons I very rarely let my kids go in other peoples pools
My husband takes our pool water to the pool shop every week in summer and every month in winter. As regular customers there they don't take the mickey and only sell us what is required. A couple of bags of salt a year, acid and stabiliser is usually all that is required for us. Costs maybe $100 a year if that and an hour per month in time.
My husband takes our pool water to the pool shop every week in summer and every month in winter. As regular customers there they don't take the mickey and only sell us what is required. A couple of bags of salt a year, acid and stabiliser is usually all that is required for us. Costs maybe $100 a year if that and an hour per month in time.
We hardly ever use our A/C.......
May 25th 2010, 1:19 pm
#37
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Re: Swimming pools
But for our part of WA: If you look on google earth or better still nearmap, virtually every house in our current suburb has a pool - same for the suburb we'll be living in from Friday.
May 25th 2010, 1:20 pm
#38
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Re: Swimming pools
. Could you please tell me which pool shop you go to?
May 25th 2010, 1:20 pm
#39
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Re: Swimming pools
we didnt hav a pool our first 4 months here then bought our house & had pool put in soon as , on movin to nxt house really wanted pool , we find it NO hassel at all its never turned green in the 7yrs , our boys hav now moved on & we still use it heaps in summer i was in last wk ok touch chilly but good , even if we move i would still want a pool , i do think its a pom thing wanting a pool as u think its the aussie way .
mind u we had friends move here last yr [only stuck it 5 1/2 months
] they arrived april they insisted on rental with pool as hav 3 boys we kept tellin them as they were only gonna rent 6months it wasnt worth it as winter was comin & they wouldnt use BUT woulod they listen NO anyway they payed through the nose for one which they used a handfull of times .
well guys had my say xx
mind u we had friends move here last yr [only stuck it 5 1/2 months
] they arrived april they insisted on rental with pool as hav 3 boys we kept tellin them as they were only gonna rent 6months it wasnt worth it as winter was comin & they wouldnt use BUT woulod they listen NO anyway they payed through the nose for one which they used a handfull of times . well guys had my say xx
May 25th 2010, 1:25 pm
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